How Round Is Your Table?
Dmitry Podborits, a climate change agnostic, finds the logic of some global warming deniers cause for concern, and sets about dissecting it.
Peak oil to be hot issue at SF’s Green Festival Nov 5-6
Peak Oil is finally getting more attention in the mainstream media. Environmental circles are also discussing it more, as evidenced by the Green Festival in San Francisco Nov. 5-6.
Environment Headlines – 26 October, 2005
Ex-Premier Carr takes up climate lobbyist role / Global warming strengthens hurricanes / Biodiversity may help slow disease spread: experts / Global-warming skeptics under fire / Forest biodiversity impacts on carbon fixing
Solutions and Sustainability Headlines – 26 October, 2005
What is Planetran? / UK: RED’s designs for a changing climate / Umbra’s FAQs / US ‘Green building’ code in desperate need of repair
Peak Oil Headlines – 27 October, 2005
Pio Manzù & co. ‘Soul of the Empire’ conference, Rimini, Italy to discuss Rimini Protocol / Community Solutions Workshop for Community Leaders, Illinois, US / Heinberg in Nevada City / Esquire – The Five-Minute Guide: Oil / ‘End of an era’ for cheap oil
The power of stories
Two back-to-back events, a documentary on the origins of Al Qaeda (you did want to know, didn’t you?) and the 16th annual Bioneers conference pose questions of how we choose to embrace stories of fear or stories of healing. Is it a matter of framing or can we just change channels already?
Solutions and Sustainability Headlines – 26 October, 2005
Brian Hayes Infrastructure / Wal-Mart to seek savings in energy /
Politics and Economics Headlines – 26 October, 2005
Madagascar feeling high energy prices / Japan-China oil dispute escalates / Gas taxes: lesser evil, greater good / Memories of the 70s energy crisis / Oil-rich test for Bush / Hurricanes take oil firms from disaster to windfall / GOP and Big Oil / Roach: Tough flying for the global economy / Who Benefits from Disorder in the Middle East? / IT energy crisis reaching critical mass / Natural-gas prices pinch companies / Hillary and her [energy] fund / Hyperinflation begining in India?
Peak Oil Headlines – 26 October, 2005
US Science Academies Oil Supply Workshop, Potential for Peak / Time Magazine all over energy this week / Escaping the road to extinction / Ripping up asphalt and planting gardens / Prieur: The Slow Crash
Other Energy Headlines – 26 October, 2005
Saudi Arabia evolves into a global petrochemical hub / ‘Shale oil is sham’ / Wood pellet market heats up / The chief UK scientific adviser has become a government spin doctor / Making the Grid “Smart” / Wind-farm plans take root in Texas / France: EDF’s highly charged sale / Plan for new nuke plant proceeds quietly
Environment Headlines – 26 October, 2005
No escape: Arctic thaw gains momentum / Climate change ‘could ruin drive to eradicate poverty’ / Warm Oceans Threaten Caribbean Coral Reefs / The greening of China? / China dam project tests new environmental policy / A leak in the Ecuadorian oil adventure / EU must do more to fight climate change: Env.Commissioner
Peak Wood
“Peak Oil” is not such a strange or unique phenomenon. … Since the general problem (if not the specifics) is such a common one, allow me to explain with an example from our own history: the end of the Bronze Age, the beginning of the Iron Age, and a crisis we might today call, “Peak Wood.”
