Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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
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
Kicking Our Fossil Fuel Addiction: one man’s efforts to live sustainably / Kinsale Action Plan – sending up shoots around the world… / Peak Oil Denial Comes in Many Forms… / Rain gardens ‘cut city pollution’ / Standby electronic chargers gobble power – some in industry seek to delay reform / Japanese Putting All Their Energy Into Saving Fuel
Edison, BP plan $1 billion California hydrogen power plant /
China’s fast breeders /
Journalists: How energy-positive is ethanol, really? /
Zubrin: An energy revolution (alcohol) /
Hybrid perks may become problems /
Senators oppose Bush cuts to coal R&D /
Viridian linkfest
Unfortunately for the authors of “Potential Environmental Impact of a Hydrogen Economy on the Stratosphere,” their research, while bold and innovative, didn’t exactly mesh with the hype about hydrogen. [The resulting government action] left some scientists feeling that they’d better stay away from “political” subjects if they want government grants.
The Swedish Commission on Oil Independence
is a broad-based expert council that will provide the Prime Minister and the Government with facts and advice in the work to significantly reduce Sweden’s dependence on oil and other fossil raw materials by 2020.
31 workers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory were dismissed seven days after President Bush read the words “addicted to oil” off the teleprompter and announced yet another “Advanced Energy Initiative.”
The corporate plunder of Iraq /
G-8 ministers warn of wider risks from tight oil supply /
Ethanol’s a big scam, and Bush has fallen for it /
U.S. royalty plan to give windfall to oil companies /
UAE keen to buy more natural gas from Qatar /
Threat of scarcity draws oil companies to Cuba
Bush may be taking the idea of peak oil seriously /
BBC: Why oil will hit $100 a barrel /
Peak oil on BBC’s Prime Time /
Byron King: “Peak oil is not for amateurs” /
Hubbert talk: “Nuclear energy and the fossil fuels” /
Willits: Regional localization networking conference
Austria puts its energy into plant power (biomass) /
Patagonia wind aids remote communities /
Kyoto and pig power /
A Latin American pipeline dream /
Nigeria’s oil hope and despair /
Tom Adams of Energy Probe on nuclear power
Maryland’s conservative congressman leading charge against fuel dependency (Rep. Bartlett) /
Cancel that apocalypse — the oil crisis is over /
Commuters at sea as governments lose the plot (urban design & energy) /
The Iran crisis & global peak oil
Will global warming create any winners? /
Grist series on poverty and the environment /
The greenhouse mafia /
Climate ‘makes oil profit vanish’ /
Capturing pig power /
Eau, no: Bottled water is killing the planet
