Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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
McKibben: Global warming about to hit high gear / The Great Coral Reef disaster /
World Bank: China, India are fast-growing polluters / CO2levels accelerating / Christian Aid: climate change ‘will kill 182m Africans’ /
Long-haul breaks spell bad news for the climate /
Meltdown fear as Arctic ice cover falls to record winter low / WSJ: Scientists explain climate-change data / Report: Americans and climate change
It’s a big disappointment to see papers like the New York Times or the Guardian peddle the Cheney/Blair “war of the worlds” vision of energy markets. This is the vision whereby, in order to make people forget that it is … their refusal … to reduce demand through conservation or efficiency that has brought about the current energy crisis, they invent external enemies to blame for that situation.
Distinguished scientists and policy makers presented their most recent research on the current state of global warming at 17th Annual Global Warming Conference last April. Our roving correspondent reports.
A newspaper in a major American city requested Byron King to write a summary of the concept of Peak Oil, but then decided not to run it. Get around the media embargo on in-depth Peak Oil coverage by reading the article here.
Embedded energy, life-cycle assessments and greenwashing / NYT: Greening up with the Joneses / Unleashing abundance as a community response to peak oil
Wind power / The oil sands sweepstakes / An ethanol reality check / Columbia U. report: US has low-cost alternatives to oil / Dead cows move trains (India & renewables)
