Other energy – Mar 28
Cracking oil is not a funny business /
Clean-coal effort off to slow start /
UK wind power ‘ahead of predictions’ /
On the ethanol bandwagon: big names and big risks
Politics & economics – Mar 28
China lifts price of domestic oil products /
Follow the chopsticks /
Chat With Chomsky (remark on oil and Iraq war) /
Vague law and hard lobbying add up to billions for big oil /
UK-Aussi forum looks to energy, India and China
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 28
Michael Pollan: The modern hunter-gatherer /
California makes itself the most efficient place in North America /
Home builders turning green /
Farm goes for economic, ecological diversity /
US, African scientists seek biotech answer to hunger (sorghum)
Beyond petroleum?
In Bush’s state of the union address we all heard him say the words “addicted to oil”. I was elated for the rest of the week. I know, I know. This doesn’t mean he’ll actually do anything about it, but at least we can now hear the problem addressed from all fronts.
NYT: Bush’s $28 billion giveaway to oil companies
Recent executive decisions, and smart use by oil companies in lawsuits of ambiguous wording of the applicable laws, threaten to leave up to two thirds of Gulf of Mexico gas production paying no taxes, at a loss to taxpayers of $28 billion, according to the New York Times.
Other energy – Mar 27
Saudi Oil Minister Ali Naimi is the Greenspan of energy /
Rural rights activists wreck Brazilian plantation /
Slavery underpinned the Georgian economy as oil does ours /
In Dubai, an outcry from Asians for workplace rights /
North Sea tax revenue cut by £1.5bn /
Uganda loses 26% forest cover
Environment – Mar 27
Sea rise could be ‘catastrophic’ /
Global warming will change Pacific Northwest /
The pollution gap /
Time reporter Eugene Linden on climate change /
A new ethics needed to save life on Earth /
Seattle to Kyoto: You can’t get there by car
Be worried, be very worried
Cover story of TIME magazine: The climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame. Never mind what you’ve heard about global warming as a slow-motion emergency that would take decades to play out. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the crisis is upon us.
Making us “future-proof” – the evolving role of horticulture
How horticulture and related fields (such as urban forestry) might evolve to assist the transition to an economy without cheap oil.
Smoke & Monetary Policy
On Tuesday I had a conversation with a few Senior Executives in the Department of the Interior about how to solve the Peak Oil problem–and we all came to the same conclusion: there is a structural block to the solution to this problem…
What markets are telling us about future energy prices
Until very recently the expectations on long term price of oil were extraordinarily stable – at around 20$/bl. Thexe expectations have changed remarkably quickly during the past 2 years
Other energy – Mar 25
Sweden plans wood-fueled future /
Europe eyes Brazillian sugar to fuel its cars /
Shell shocked: People of the Niger Delta fight back /
Iraqi oil: ‘Invasion has backfired’ /
Reheating the Cold War (Energy, Russia and the West) /
Africa must look to its own oil needs /
Running out of natural gas in North America
