TIME on global warming: Be worried. Be very worried.
TIME has an outstanding special issue April 3 on climate change. Many of the articles are online.
Other energy – Apr 4
China to buy Australian uranium /
Chavez rules out return to cheap oil /
Business Week: The road to energy independence /
Demand may outpace Saudi oil capacity /
Obama: Dems should stress oil independence /
Silicon Valley man bankrolls clean-energy initiative /
Merkel calls meeting on German energy
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 4
Mapping as an infill tool /
HP wants your Old PCs back /
A better shade of green for Wall Street /
The small but beautiful ways to save the planet /
Anything into oil (thermal conversion)
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 3
Briquette that heats homes and saves trees in Kenya /
Sterilizing water with solar radiation /
Jason Edens, rural solar advocate /
Nice lawn, M’Lord, but please don’t eat the grass /
How to stop guzzling gas
Peak oil – Apr 3
‘There’s no planet B’ (UK comedian Robert Newman interview) /
Heinberg in Peoria /
African Union: ‘Era of cheap oil is over’
Other energy – Apr 3
Chávez seeks to peg oil at $50 a barrel /
True price of UK’s nuclear legacy: £160bn /
Demand for ethanol grows, prices surge /
Peak sugar!
Demand for sugar is skyrocketing, because of our need for energy and oil-substitutes. An indirect sign of peak oil, if that was ever needed. And it’s happening really, really quickly…
Other energy – Apr 2
Yergin: The world is waking up to new era of power politics /
A role for oil companies in setting climate policy? /
Iran still insisting on Persian Gulf oil bourse /
Woodside, Chevron to benefit from Asia LNG demand /
Make your own Chevy Tahoe commercial /
Soon we’ll pay the true price of air travel
Energy modeler speaks to U.S. Senate
A Stanford study estimated that the odds of a foreign oil disruption happening over the next 10 years are about 80 percent. As a general rule, strategies that reduce our dependence on oil consumption are more effective than policies that reduce our imports.
Environment – Apr 1
Antarctic air is warming faster than rest of world /
China grapples with growing water shortages /
Soil crisis is holding back African recovery /
Interior Department spins wetlands data /
New NASA policy backs free discussion by scientists /
Research in Pacific shows ocean trouble /
Global warming’s cost to Canada /
Environmental restoration in the age of climate change
Politics & economics – Apr 1
Oil heads toward $70, with potentially grave consequences for global economy /
Energy policy a contradiction in Bolivia /
Venezuela takes on ExxonMobil /
CSM commentary: Iran’s plan to weaken the dollar will fail /
Petroleos Mexicanos: private funds needed to bolster output /
LaDuke: Three Affiliated Tribes at a crossroads: Which energy path?
Peak oil – Apr 1
Peak Sugar! /
Peabody Energy, largest coal company, thinks ‘coal is the future’ /
Deffeyes visits Alaska /
Peak opportunity! Earth liberation and the oil endgame
