Ethanol & renewables – Oct 12

St Louis renewable energy conference (day 1)
Report: Brazilian ethanol is sustainable
The trouble with ethanol (Patzek)
The ethanol alternative (ABC)
Oil Giants put energy Into other resources

Oil – Oct 12

World Oil Exports: A Comprehensive Projection

Oil price volatility and possible consequences

Lower gas prices won’t last, say UC-Davis professors

EU oil imports set to grow by 29% by 2012

Putin Suggests Creation of Oil Exchange in St. Petersburg

America’s dirty secret: India becomes the gasoline gusher

How Hot Money Inflames Oil Prices

Proposing Plan C

Participants at last month’s Third U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions learned how they must use less energy, save and share resources and grow food in their communities. This response to the coming peak and permanent decline of global oil production, is dubbed “Plan C: Curtailment, Cooperation, and Community.”

Solutions & sustainability – Oct 11

Will silicon light illuminate the future?

A climate hero

Healthy gardens just the start for healthy community

Relocalisation comes to town

Energy Descent: Community questions future

A post-peak open space event

Are you exceptional?

Plan B and Plan B

Fundamentalist Christians are mounting an effort to end the use of all contraceptives while ecologists warn that we are headed for disaster as Earth’s life support systems crack under the weight of our numbers.

Mexico’s Cantarell field: how long will it last?

Thanks to the Reforma and Cantarell field discoveries, Mexico’s oil production grew dramatically, starting from the mid-1970s and running right up to its peak production in 2004. But Cantarell, Mexico’s largest field, is in decline. Part one of this 4-part series covers the background.

Water – Oct 10

Water for millions at risk as glaciers melt
Monbiot: The freshwater boom is over
$3 water purifier could save lives

U.S. energy policy – Oct 10

Nation still needs a sane energy policy.

Energy vacation (Bush energy bill)
Politics of climate change – why Democrats should stand up now
Raise the gas tax? Funny, it doesn’t sound Republican
Without renewable power, U.S. Army could fail in Iraq