Geopolitics – Sept 19
Russia revokes permit for Sakhalin-2
Iran and Venezuela plan Syrian refinery
Russian oil exports to China by rail up 25%
Capitalist Dispossession and the Scramble for Africa
Transport – Sept 19
A train ticket to America, please
Amtrak fares up; ridership adapts
Air Force tries new jet fuel
Climate – Sept 19
Wildfires release 15 times more toxic mercury
England’s warming ‘not natural’
SoCal Edison: regional focus on GW ineffective
Bush’s climate-controlled White House
Big business increasingly fighting CC
George Monbiot: The denial industry
Inconvenient truths (for Gore and the planet)
Europe takes the lead in carbon offsets
Pat Robertson’s climate change conversion
Peak oil – Sept 19
It’s a dogma-eat-dogma world
Those who deride PO theory don’t know Jack
The forest and the trees – oil news imbalance
Discovery Channel sustainability series
ASPO Australia patron re-elected
Renewables – Sept 19
Golden Gate tides – a potential energy source
Ramblers demand end to spread of wind farms
Cold fusion is alive and well
Tanzania turns to cassava for energy
Australian farmer plans diesel tree biofuel
Canola: from seed to fuel
Iran – Sept 18
Iran oil bourse launch underway
Chavez greets Iranian president in Caracas
China asserts Iran’s right to civilian nuclear
Sinopec, Iran to sign deal
What war with Iran would look like
Iran nukes: compromise may be in the works
Allies under pressure as US wages financial war on Iran
Social Fertilizer: The big growth potential of urban agriculture
Community gardens are primarily hobbies here in Vancouver, but internationally they are known for their ability to feed entire cities.
Institutional investors warned about peak oil and climate change
A major report launched today warns institutional investors to pay attention to the dangers of climate change and peak oil. The fourth Carbon Disclosure Project report is the result of a collaboration of 225 institutional investors with combined assets of $31 trillion.
Energy policy – Sept 18
Let’s talk gas tax
Kunstler’s ‘wild hair’ column
Liberal Dems unveil plans for ‘green’ car tax
Critics: World Bank energy scheme misguided
US cuts funds for 2 renewable energy sources
The good news about oil prices is the bad news
California, taking big gamble, tries to curb greenhouse gases
Food & agriculture – Sept 18
Sustainable agriculture in CSIRO newsletter
African agriculture: seeds of hope
Study finds chemicals in biosolids
How to keep fires down in California scrub- chew it
Gore says tax CO2, not payrolls
In a major cliimate-change speech today at the NYU School of Law, Al Gore proposed:
– an immediate freeze on CO2 emissions
– replacing the payroll tax with pollution taxes
– joining the Kyoto Treaty
– looking for solutions not in a silver bullet but in “silver buckshot.”
An Interview with Dennis Meadows – co-author of ‘Limits to Growth’.
I was very lucky at ASPO 5 to get to interview Dennis Meadows, one of the authors of what is probably the most famous environmental book in history, “Limits to Growth”.
