News article errs on Saudi oil capacity
The Associated Press issued a story Jan 18 which stated that Saudi Arabia intends to increase its oil production capacity by 40% by 2009. In fact, it intends to do no such thing.
The crunchy mystique
There are many points of convergence between this newly identified brand of crunchy (slang for counter-cultural) conservative creature and the eco-hippie crunchy liberal. (Book review)
U.S. energy policy – Jan 25
Bodman: U.S. veeds more ethanol imports
Energy research on a shoestring [energy lab underfunded]
Be careful what you wish for: the politics of cheap oil
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
Revolution arising from the Earth, Part I
As the industrial system spins toward exhaustion, seeds of change are sprouting at the base.
Revolution arising from the Earth, Part II: The Earth speaks
Ecovillages and the new aborigines
U.S. and biofuels – Jan 24
Contradictions seen in alternative energy plan
Ethanol production booming on demand
WaPo: Blindness on biofuels
Springtime for ethanol
