Environment – May 31

Poison ivy getting meaner (with global warming) / Canada agrees to next step in Kyoto / USA Today series on global warming / The Greener Guys (U.S. business & global warming) / You control climate change – or do you? / Ecological handprints: population and the limits of possibility

Energy use – May 31

Energy-hungry nations also most wasteful / Forget gas; we meed a plan to keep passenger trains rolling / Railroading Amtrak / Car culture in BC: Our toxic love affair /
High-rise residents big energy guzzlers / Computer server efficiency hot topic

Other energy – May 31

Quest for energy alternatives heats up / Fill ‘er up with corn and politics / Solving our carbon addiction without choking growth

Politics & economics – May 31

Oil could top $105 in major supply outage: expert /
IMF’s Rato says high oil prices here to stay / Energy Industry Fortifying Plans, Equipment in the Gulf of Mexico /
Helicopter crisis hits oil firms /
China: Stable long-term oil supply predicted (and doubts) /
Would drilling more Alaskan oil cut prices?

Environment – May 29

Ottawa absent at major climate change conference / Global warming might not be so bad, if we keep our cool /
Sprawl outruns lofty experiment (Biosphere 2)

Other energy – May 29

Use of corn for fuel may push up prices of food /
Author Jeff Goodell on Big Coal /
Coal may be fuel of the future, but industry battles over path / Seven nation group to pursue fusion energy research /
Shale oil and co-products

Solutions & sustainability – May 29

“Freegans” forage for food in bins / Sustainability conference June 10-11 in Seattle / Richard Register’s proposal for a global rebuilding program / Micropatronage – a new way to finance innovation /
UK: Eco villages springing up all over / Evangelical Virginia farmer sees a revolution against industrial agriculture / Growing hope (gardening in Guantanamo) /
An evening in Peter Harper’s garden / Building with hemp

Peak oil – May 29

Matthew Simmons: Tight oil supplies (new slides) /
John Gray: Rather than face up to climate change humanity may opt to let it happen / Leggett:
Cars are killing the planet, but there is an alternative

Politics & economics – May 29

Planet Of Slums (links) /
China’s oil supply faces risks, expert says /
Saudi oil output ‘dips to lowest in year’ /
Iran plays China card with Japan on oil deal /
Shi’ite faction menaces Iraq’s Basra oil exports