Biofuels – July 7
Tapping the latent power in what’s left around the barnyard / Shell says biofuels from food crops “morally inappropriate” / Malawi: turning the future into charcoal / Malaysia weighs palm oil share for food, energy
Solutions & sustainability – July 7
Masanobu Fukuoka – natural farming /
Jamie’s School Dinners – 10 Insights for Energy Descent /
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System /
Feel lonely? You’re not alone
Peak oil – July 6
Opposition demands ‘true’ reserve figures in Kuwait /
Billionaires Soros and Rogers on peak oil /
Matthew Simmons talk at Cambridge Forum /
The End of Suburbia promo at last /
Robert Newman’s History of Oil
Nuclear – July 6
Britain Aims for Nuclear, But Greens Query Public Funding /
Public funding of nuclear questioned in Australia /
Documents reveal hidden fears over Britain’s nuclear plants /
Embarassment as Australian Minister visits damaged British reactor
An Open Letter to Greg Palast
Richard Heinberg addresses negative comments by investigative journalist Greg Palast about Peak Oil and those who study it.
Politics & economics – July 6
The New American Cold War (US, Russia and energy) / Our real problem with oil and energy policy goes beyond rising prices / Serious about energy security? (criticizing the Financial Times series) / “Our” real addiction: capitalist waste in transportation
The peak oil crisis: energy & building
In North America we spend 90 percent of our time inside buildings where the temperature, moisture, and even the oxygen content of the air we breath are all kept at acceptable levels by – you guessed it – cheap energy.
Solution: Carbon tax – July 5
Properly designed carbon tax could help Canada battle global warming / The big idea: an energy tax / Nordic countries: Green taxes are the way to change our world / Fuel tax magic
Politics & economics – July 5
Playing oil politics in the Caspian Sea / Soros: Europe must tackle Russian energy threat / Cheneys betting on bad news? /
How did oil power Iran fall into a petrol crisis? / BP blames Venezuela’s Chavez for shortfall in production / Seymour Hersch: The military’s problem with the President’s Iran policy.
Coal – July 5
Search for new oil sources leads to processed coal / Germany gives coal opt out under CO2 emission plan /
Does Air Force have a coal-powered plane in its future? / Old king coal to reign (“Best hope for energy security”) /
Coal’s false promise to America
Environment – July 5
Farming must change to aid environment / Finnish EU Presidency wants ‘new generation’ of environmental policy / 12% of bird species to be in peril by 2100 / Buried greenhouse gases may escape: scientists /
Journalist Ross Gelbspan on global warming
The FT’s Martin Wolf does not believe in peak oil
I’ll wait for his article on global warming to make too rash a conclusion, but this article is not reassuring that we’re ever going to get our elites to take energy issues seriously.
