Solutions and Sustainability Headlines – 7 November 2005

Livability isn’t sustainability / Swedish tenant owner cooperative starts oil break with geothemal heating / Community resource management: old rules, and new sustainable ones / British to help China build ‘eco-cities’

Politics and Economics Headlines – 7 November, 2005

What do you want Dubai? / IEA forecast of future oil price rises by a third / Arabs riot in oil-rich Iran province / Iran oil bourse:a threat to the petrodollar? / Bush urged to use heating oil reserve / Denvers’ Mayor sets scooter example / Oil producers are urged to invest in more capacity

Peak Oil Headines – 7 November, 2005

Faith-based energy policy? / A way out of Iraq: relocalize economic life / UK gov. to launch new oil depletion study / Peak oil workshop for community leaders Dec 2-4, Illinois / Life After Cheap Oil — Apollo [Alliance] and Beyond / Tools with a life of their own / New peak oil sites / Halliburton, BP and Russian Black Gold / Oil no longer the dressing for the ‘3,000 mile Caesar salad’ / Oil: the beginning of the end

Technology headlines – Nov 6

Magnetic evidence for hot superconductivity in multi-walled carbon nanotubes /
The future of flying is batwing /
Power source that turns physics on its head

Environment headlines – Nov 6

Environmentalist Bill McKibben on global warming /
Long-term model shows 14.5-degree hike in temperature /
Animal response to climate change may backfire /
EU seeks talks, not targets at U.N. climate meeting /
Canada: dramatic weather changes due to human activity, climate change /
China’s water crisis worst in the world: government official /
Expanding desert could cover China’s breadbasket with sand /
Environmental cloud on horizon for Mediterranean, warns UN

Peak oil headlines – Nov 6

Bill McKibben seeks a friendlier option for the post-peak future /
Coming to grips with the end of cheap energy /
PO activism in Minneapolis /
Vermont independence convention /
Tom Whipple on importing energy after PO /
French environment minister publishes PO book /
La vie après le pétrole /
Dry Dipstick launches “Beyond Peak” website /
What Shell and BP say about energy supply /
The empty promise of technology /
PO group in Virginia /
Prof. Albert Bartlett on PO

Solutions and sustainability – Nov 6

Suburbia project: the experts reply /
Green washing: get your company to clean up its janitorial act /
Entrepreneurs hear that green is trendy at SF conference /
CSIRO Sustainability Network Newsletter /
Salon’s Climate warriors and heroes /
Interview with Seattle green architect Johnpaul Jones /
All the king’s media – the Web as counter-propaganda /
CSIRO goes for high tech and big impact

Other energy headlines – Nov 6

Abiotic snake oil /
Korea seeks endless, non-harmful energy source /
Building roads won’t fix transportation woes /
Beijing lowers thermostats to avoid energy crunch /
Sea-based windmills could blunt eyesore criticisms

Politics and economics – Nov 6

BP boss predicts oil price fall /
West balks at backing revolution as elections loom in oil-rich state /
Oil patch faces rough patch; still, lawmakers may give industry more carrots than sticks /
Firms must plan for energy costs /
Environmentalists slam World Bank’s clean energy ‘failure’ /
Albania imposes power cuts due to drought /
Is UK headed for a winter of discontent? /
High prices for energy hold down job growth /
What is happening to Iraqi oil /
US stripper well oil down in 2004; gas up /
A vulnerable natural-gas supply /
Democracy Now mentions peak oil

Wall Street Journal advice on global warming – a perspective from Hawai'i

Instead of trying to help its readers understand the causes of the global warming that may devastate the islands and even continents, the WSJ seeks merely to guide its readers to the best of the worsening islands. Such a short-sighted attitude of merely using, rather than preserving, the Earth’s bountiful gifts advances global warming