Climate Policy – Sept 12
Arizona seeks to bypass Bush on CO2 emissions
Climate change heads for the US Supreme Court
Fear unites evangelicals, environmentalists
Christians reconsider flying
Nuclear – Sept 12
Swedes downplay severity of shutdowns
Pakistan key to Chinese nuclear exports
Feds reject nuke waste storage plan
Popular Mechanics: The Nuclear Option
Solutions and Sustainability – Sept 12
Traffic “experiments” and a cure for waves & jams
Petrolius – satire
Book Review – The Worm Forgives the Plough
Book Review – The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
Cities Can Save the Earth: the urban solution to climate change, species extinctions and peak oil
Over the past century, our cities have been shaped – literally – by the demands of the automobile. Today, with global oil reserves declining irreversibly, it’s time to face the challenges of the imminent post-oil reality.
Peak Oil – Sept 12
ASPO Newsletter #69
Jack 2 will be a long time coming
ExxonMobil exec claims Peak oil theories wrong
Predicting the peak
Stormy world of energy has a clear forecaster
Chevron conquers the rock
Jack #2 demonstrates a key element of the Peak Oil thesis. That is, that the “easy” oil is gone… The oil that mankind will lift from the earth in the future, on the far side of Peak Oil, will be in faraway places, in harsh climates, under excruciatingly difficult conditions, deep down, heavy, sour, and overall expensive.
Imagine… Sept 12
Gaviotas
Other economies are possible!
Ditch the car?
Canal dreaming: solving the energy crisis
If gas taxes had been increased 5 years ago
Geopolitics – Sept 11
US and UK mercenaries in covert operations in Somalia
‘Resource nationalism’ is squeezing oil users
Gas Pressure destabilising Yushchenko
Japan nervous over Russia’s Sakhalin lawsuit
Why we need a healthcare Hirsch report
A medical ‘Hirsch report’ would provide useful information for planning and implementing mitigation programs, allowing us to manage the significant expected impacts of oil scarcity and energy descent on healthcare systems.
How cities are preparing for global warming & peak oil
Special issue – one of the best yet from HopeDance. All articles are online and free.
Why our newspaper group is doing this series on climate change
Climate change is the biggest, most significant challenge of the 21st century. That is why the newspapers of the East Oregonian Publishing Co. began this occasional series in March. This series is an extraordinary commitment for a newspaper group of our size. From our varied geographical vantage points, our reporters and editors will describe what scientists, naturalists and ordinary citizens are observing and predicting.
(Pulitzer Prize committee, take note! -EB)
Agriculture (food & fuel)-Sept 10
Our big fat world
Redesigning crops to harvest fuel
Kew boss: the dangers of biofuels
