Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The Bush Administration has struggled to define its stance on the most critical long-term strategic issue facing the United States: whether to view China as a future military adversary… or to see it as a rival player in the global capitalist system. …after a four-year period in which neither outlook appeared dominant, the pendulum has now swung conspicuously toward the anti-Chinese, prepare-for-war position.
The October 2 edition of the Nikkei, Japan’s leading business newspaper, carried a review… of two recently translated books that discuss peak oil. The Nikkei [review gave] peak oil theory a thumbs down.
It is very likely that the world is now entering a challenging period for energy supply, due to the limited resources and production problems now facing conventional (easily accessible) oil. …Mitigation measures must be initiated in the next few years in order to secure a continued adequate supply of liquid fuels, especially for the transport sector. Over the longer term, completely new solutions are required.
Oil thirst from China adds fuel to US-Canada trade tussle /
Investment in renewable energy heats up /
U.S. consumer prices soar on gasoline /
Who is politically unstable? /
Omar Freilla and green worker cooperatives /
Bush asked to explain why he won’t release heatoil /
U.S. counts more oil, gas rigs destroyed by storms
Of all the earth-building methods, cob building embodies a mystery in its sensuous curvy walls. How does it work? How does it get built? …cob building is [best] understood as pottery or sculpture.
Rise of the eco-city /
Downside of wind power /
A billion gallons of gasoline saved /
Bioneers: heeding the law of the land /
Best of Treehugger /
“My clouds could beat global warming” /
Philippines: Wait for ruin or embrace opportunity
Economic Brief: E.U. Plans for Alternative Energy’ / Shell E&P on the challenge of meeting expanding energy demand / USA expresses interest in Iran-Armenia pipeline / Schlumberger Glossary / A New Push to Mix Oil and Water / ‘Scientists trade theories on how petroleum arises’
Robert Hirsch: Inevitable peaking of world oil /
When will PO arrive? /
WSJ: $70/barrel? Relax, it’ll come down /
Kos: Proposal for a serious energy policy /
Japan: What me worry? /
Report on London PO conference /
Malta in shock over fuel prices /
Chavez: world faces major energy crisis /
Americans expect ‘miracle’ oil reserves /
Marxists on PO /
There is no Plan “B”
No-till farming may benefit climate / Soy You Want to Be a Vegetarian? / Edible Forest Gardens / CIA Director Moonlights As Farmer in ORANGE, Va.
More than $88 billion of U.S. corporate debt is teetering on the edge of investment grade and soon may join the record amount of bonds downgraded to junk this year.
Bangladesh rations natural gas / The supermarket goes south / Has the Green dream wilted? / Inflation surge: Here to stay? / Natural Gas Users to Take Hit This Winter / Refiner Madness / Greenspan Says Economy Handling Energy Costs `Reasonably Well’
Climate data hint at record hot 2005 / Economists fear warming’s effects / The Heat Death of American Dreams / Nearly Half of Americans Cite ‘Too Little’ Environment Regulation / Damalot by Jacques Leslie’s / Zoo fears polar melt / Six-Nation Climate Change Meeting Likely Delayed / Biomimicry 101
