Solutions & sustainability – Jan 23

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Astyk: Living off the waste of industrial society
Hopkins: Honour the elders
Orlov: The despotism of the image
The straight line is the road to hell

Programs let homes produce green power

Paradigm shift on climate – Jan 23

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Monbiot: If Tesco and Wal-Mart are friends of the earth, are there any enemies left?
McKibben: logjam over global warming starting to break
FT: The Right was wrong on climate change
Oil chief emerges with climate warning

The future is climate neutral
Report has ‘smoking gun’ on climate
Global warming at Davos (WEF)

Energy sources – Jan 23

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Oil sands projects steam ahead in Alberta, despite Harper
Rogers: oil will rise to $100 after `correction’
Coal combustion: nuclear resource or danger
Chernobyl churches
Hungarian gas field could turn country into gas exporter

Cheated by the Heat

“Hot gas” is costing consumers like you and I billions of dollars every year. Is this just an oversight, or a scheme devised by gas stations to milk consumers of more money?

Am I romanticizing poverty?

Sharon Astyk, Energy Bulletin

Sharon Astyk is one of us in the peak oil movement who advocates relocalisation and self sufficiency. Is this vision based on a romantic notion?

Peak oil and geopolitics – Jan 22

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Klare: Geopolitical consequences of peak oil
Kissinger: The new Iraq strategy

The draining of Africa’s wealth

TOD: Trade, transportation and the Chinese finger trap

Bush and energy policy – Jan 22

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Bush expected to stress energy security

Bush to call for improved fuel economy?
Experts from Post-Carbon Inst available to comment on SOTU
Pelosi, Reid discuss upcoming SOTU, warming
Sacrifices necessary with new energy plan

Climate – Jan 22

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The impressive Warwick McKibbin – a new kind of carbon trading?
Joseph Romm, author of ‘Hell and High Water’
The insurance climate change – the Market speaks