Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Energy will inevitably become less available and more expensive than it has been for the last few decades. The change will be permanent. Adapting to this scenario while maintaining the UK’s standard of living will require fundamental changes in the way we produce and use energy. All sources of energy will be required.
How a bid to defuse the coming global peak-oil crisis was recently sidelined at a peak oil conference in Rimini, Italy.
“The world’s biggest sustainability event,” the marquee outside the Nov. 5-6 Green Festival (GF) announced. Peak Oil and energy descent were among the main topics addressed by the speakers.
Renewable energy investment at record high – report / Palm oil project fuels controversy in Borneo / Abiotic snake oil / China lifts target for renewable energy / Global energy meeting agrees roadmap on renewables
San Francisco’s clean-tech report card /
Cool idea helps save energy, environment /
When cleaner air Is a biblical obligation /
Sweating the big stuff at Grist Magazine /
Bill McKibben: Curitiba as a global model for development /
To save endangered butterfly, become a butterfly /
Interview: Sir Jonathon Porritt – a carbon-constrained world
Hillary Clinton calls for greener energy policy /
Energy companies feel the heat on the Hill /
Four questions for Big Oil /
China to promote small cars to save energy /
Military man criticizes oil cartel /
Albania faces severe electricity crisis
Mother Jones: we’re over a barrel /
Christian Science Monitor:
How soon will world’s oil supplies peak? /
Denver PO conference /
There’s still lots of oil — at a price: IEA /
Oil and gas industries are running ‘flat out’ /
IEA: Mideast oil nations must up spare capacity /
UAE: Global output ‘sufficient till 2006’
The gas addiction of the Ukrainian economy hinders its efforts to become a competitive economy and assert energy independence.
Ecological implications of the Amazonian drought affect all / Toxic legacy of home grown Weapons of Mass Destruction / Melting mountains – How climate change is destroying the world’s most spectacular landscapes / The Kyoto deal is changing too / Drilling for methane hydrates
Energize America — A Democratic Blueprint / Chinese demand – the Dragon is back / Azerbaijan: oil, overflights and democracy / Tokya Mayor says U.S. can’t win war with China / Iran Says Contracts With Russia Could Reach $10Bln / Latest World Energy Outlook from the IEA / High fuel prices hurt life-saving service
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’
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
