U.S. energy policy – Sept 10
Energy policy takes center stage in US politics/
Windfarms in Guantanamo & solar panels in Iraq- DoD worries about energy /
Nuclear energy: status and outlook (Sept 18 inter-agency talk)
Climate – Sept 10
Lovelock: we’ve pushed the Earth too far
Siberian thaw to speed up global warming
Methane belches in lakes supercharge global warming
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
A party plan for raising peak oil awareness
Fun motivates.
Andi and I immediately recognised a novel way to catch people’s interest and a good hook for motivating people to become involved. Put the focus on what we are creating – not what we are leaving behind.
Tribune reporter set free
Tribune correspondent Paul Salopek was set free Saturday by Sudanese authorities who had charged him with espionage, ending more than a month in custody and starting him on a journey home to the United States.
(EB: Salopek is the author of the recent blockbuster report on oil in the Chicago Tribune: A tank of gas, a world of trouble)
Australia recognizes peak oil
Australians guzzle oil while supplies dwindle
Local PO effort in Queensland
Australian Senate recognizes peak oil
Online official report:
“Australia’s future oil supply and alternative transport fuels”
Peak oil – Sept 9
(Updated)
Rift widens between producers, consumers
Armageddon on the couch – PeakOilBlues
Australians guzzle oil while supplies dwindle
Byron King on the Gulf of Mexico discovery
Oil supply and demand recent trends
Cornucopians – a guide for the perplexed
Peak oil and the Gulf oil discovery
Peak oil theorists don’t know Jack
Extra! Oil discovery saves civilization!
Oil find brings gloom to ‘peak oil’ pranksters
Plenty of oil – just drill deeper
Discovery paves way to an oil peak
Byron King cheers Gulf oil discovery, but says ‘no impact whatsoever’ on peak oil
Peak oil in Yellow Springs Ohio
The third U.S. Conference on ‘Peak Oil’ & Community Solutions will place in Yellow Springs, Ohio – September 22 – 24, 2006.
Peak oil in Boston
“A Midnight Ride for Peak Oil,” a peak oil conference sponsered by ASPO-USA and Boston University, is set for Oct 25-27.
