Climate policy – Feb 2
France to US: sign climate pacts or face tax
Paxman accuses BBC of hypocrisy over environment
Investment winners & losers of global warming
The week in carbon
How climate change hits India’s poor
Biofuels – Feb 2
NYT: Palm oil may be an eco-nightmare
TOD on palm oil
Indonesia studies oil palm restriction plan
Thousands march over tortilla crisis in Mexico
Business Week: food vs. fuel
WSJ: Ethanol imports are rising
Berkeley to be hub for study of alternate fuel
Oil industry – Feb 2
Shell president says energy abounds
Exxon and Shell see profits rocket
Peak oil – Feb 2
Orlov: Collapse and its discontents
A day in a life without oil
Agriculture meets PO at Soil Association
Farming, supermarkets & the end of cheap oil
Exxon Mobil conference calls
As part of a public relations outreach effort to improve their image on climate change, Exxon Mobil invited a half-dozen or so green-shaded bloggers to a conference call with their Vice President of Public Affairs.
Global warming obstructionism
Word from participants who shall remain nameless is that China has taken the lead in global warming obstructionism in 2007.
Transport – Feb 1
Boeing defends on 787 Dreamliner doubts
Sydney tunnel a $60m Super black hole
Toll Road Giant Buys Newspapers to Silence Critics
Top energy scientists agree, Bush wrong on alternative fuels
Senate Committee witnesses from three of America’s premier energy research institutions cast grave doubt on the feasibility of reaching President Bush’s State of the Union goal of manufacturing 35 billion gallons a year of alternative fuels by 2017. (Ed: A scoop? – other media outlets seem to have missed the story.)
Food Fight: peak oil and food security radio
100 Million Farmers: Sharon Astyk interview
Until you change the way money works, you change nothing: Richard Douthwaite
What will we eat as the oil runs out?
Peak oil and permaculture in Cuba
Biogas and ‘Dream Farms’
The Salvation of suburbia
Simmons says global oil supply has peaked
“I am firmly of the belief that over the course of the next year or two, this issue of peak oil will replace global warming as an issue”
In love with the lusty wind
Interview with wind energy expert Randall Tinkerman.
Water crisis? We’re giving the stuff away
VAST quantities of the state’s most precious resource — pure drinking water — will be siphoned off by a bottled water manufacturer with links to soft drink giant Coca-Cola Amatil, which will pay a paltry $2.40 per million litres for the privilege.
