Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Alcoholics Unanimous Newsletter (biofuels) / Cargill, ADM differ in food-fuel debate / France’s renewed taste for wood heating /
China’s spending on renewable energy ranks world No. 1 / Denmark: Ministers want to export green cures for the energy crunch
Jeff Vail: The Great Game / Klare: Less oil, more wars / Thomas Friedman lays out his “laws of petropolitics” / The deep breath before the plunge
Just as in 1929, we now live in an economy that is living wildly beyond its means, depending on greater and greater fools to keep bidding up governments’, corporations’ and citizens’ paper wealth.
Prophecies of the future made on the basis of conventional wisdom just don’t wear very well. When I was growing up in the suburban America of the 1960s, everyone knew that by 2000 we’d have manned bases on the Moon and a Hilton hotel in orbit.
Yesterday I contrasted the attitudes of people in 1929 with their attitudes today, on the precipice of another Great Depression. I said that I believe racism, religious hatred and the distrust between economic classes was more pronounced and more overt in affluent nations in 1929 than it is today.
A grassroots effort created and refined by informed citizen activists, and not by lobbyists or politicians. It takes an unvarnished and objective look at U.S. energy policy with the single goal of achieving U.S. energy security by 2020 and U.S. energy independence by 2040. (Executive Summary, Version V)
The announcement by President Putin of a Russian bourse trading oil and gas in Roubles
threatens the stability of the US Dollar far more than Iran’s bourse alone would do,
and continues the slide in relations between the old Cold War foes.
Ecology for transformation / The greening of Chicago / A science of securing basic needs through sustainable, ecological methods / What are you buying when you buy organic? / Have you reduced your dependence on cars? / Connecting the dots on high gas prices (urban redesign)
Saudi oil facilities: Achilles heel of the Western economy / OPEC `doing enough’ to meet demand as states miss output quotas /
Chavez sees oil at $100 a barrel if U.S. hits Iran /
As oil prices go up, companies struggle to contain their costs / Mayors sound alarm on rising fuel costs, energy crisis / Oil colors U.S. push for democracy / When two poor countries reclaimed oilfields, why did just one spark uproar?
Glaciers in Africa expected to disappear / Legal battle to get feds to act on global warming / India says to tackle poverty before global warming / House Science Chairman Boehlert looks back at his environmental legacy
Report for California on long-term crude oil supply / Le Monde Diplomatique: Addicted to crude / Byron King: peak oil letters / CEO Shell: ‘World is not running out of oil’ /
Ian Cohen speech on PO & biofuels in NSW Parliament
Reporters look at congressional push on energy policy / Military searches for an alternative to oil-based fuel / Fuel economy takes a big hit with E85 / How MSN readers would fix the energy crisis / Nuclear is back on the agenda, says Blair
