Biofuels and U.S. policy – Jan 26

Professor: Bush’s dangerous energy proposal
Krauthammer: a serious plan requires taxes, ANWR and nukes

Chicken industry issues warning
Feed costs rising: meat groups want study

Peak oil – Jan 26

Roscoe Bartlett: man on a mission (interview)
Two warning beacons heralding the arrival of peak oil: Cantarell and Ghawar
Durango scientist debunks PO ‘myths’
Ten fundamental principles of net energy
Cornell professor says PO could be delayed
Oil at $35?

Solutions & sustainability – Jan 26

Street legal mass transport Flintstones-style
How to be good (to yourself)

Unions see greenbacks in ‘green’ future
Real-time energy feedback technology
Daydreaming improves thinking

Food & agriculture – Jan 26

O, pioneers in Pasadena (urban homesteading)
Heinberg predicts a local food renaissance
BBC: Eat like an ape, get healthy
British supermarkets going green

Deconstructing dinner: thought for food
Food or fuel in future?

The Theory of Anyway

95% of what is needed to resolve the coming crisis in energy depletion, or climate change, are changes we should be making “Anyway”

Climate policy – Jan 25

Australia should lead the energy revolution

Stern challenges Bush with call for green tax
Combatting climate change cheaper than originally thought
Merkel calls for tough emissions controls

Developing nations dig in heels on climate change
Climate on the big screen: “Everything’s Cool”

Geopolitics – Jan 25

New US strategy on Iran emerges from Davos
India’s ambition:
An elephant can run very fast
Oil the reason for US attack on Somalia
Somalia – A trip down memory hole lane

Oil – Jan 25

Mexican oil: Severe withdrawal symptoms ahead

Pemex predicts production drop

Curse of the black gold: the Niger Delta

Is the sun setting on oil sector’s heyday?

Dysfunction – Jan 25

Technological revolution is 100 years dead
Infected by affluenza (and mental illness)
Wealth top priority for today’s youth
Saving the planet: empty gestures

Bush’s SOTU – rhetoric and reality on energy

Post Carbon: The danger of a few little words
Switching to snake oil
Bush’s bogus cure for our oil addiction
NY Times: Energy rhetoric, and reality
American way of life still not up for negotiation