Solutions & sustainability – Feb 19

Xerox PARC takes on clean, green technology /
Frillmann of Green Guerillas, community-garden guru /
SF group “Compact” vows not to buy anything new in 2006 /
Termites may be allies in energy crisis /
UK baby shortage

Peak oil – Feb 18

Inverview with Syriana screenwriter Stephen Gaghan /
Cantarell – an omen? /
The Iran crisis & global peak oil, part 2 /
Satisfying China’s demand for energy /
Do high prices mean we’re running out of natural gas?

Nigeria oil ‘total war’ warning

A Nigerian militant commander in the oil-rich southern Niger Delta has told the BBC his group is declaring “total war” on all foreign oil interests.

Whale juicer

It is an unseasonably warm day, in a small town just south of Portland. A grove of beachfront orange trees planted in 2010 fill the air with their fragrant bouquet. But today a new scent is on the wind: blubber. The first whale juicing plant on the West Coast has opened, capable of producing up to 100 barrels of oil a day.

Environment – Feb 18

James Lovelock’s gloomy vision /
The UK Independent on climate change /
Interview: Sir David King, Britain’s top scientist and climate crusader /
Dispatches from a NATO gathering on Middle Eastern water woes /
California governor to push global warming fight /
Waterworld: how life on Earth will look 1,000 years from now /
Mountaintop-removal mining is scarring Appalachia and its low-income communities

Peak oil – Feb 17

Byron King: Letters to the editor, peak oil / Lester Brown on wind power and Chinese consumption growth / Farm economist: Bad news on energy costs / OPEC Output Down 120,000 bpd in January / The Long Plateau of Peak Oil / Our Mr Sun (1956)

Environment – Feb 17

Energy execs talk climate change policy /
Profile: NASA climatologist James E. Hansen /
Hotter issue in red states: global warming /
Increased CO2 may cause plant life to raise rivers /
Study on Arctic climate change produces startling findings /
Greenland glaciers disappearing more quickly: study /
Hockey fans face off against global warming

Politics & economics – Feb 17

Syria switches to euro amid confrontation with US /
IEA calls for more investment in renewable energy /
U.S. concludes ‘Cyber Storm’ mock attacks /
A way to cut fuel consumption that everyone likes, except the politicians /
Ford Europe exec: climate change requires radical change of mindset