Sustainability and Environment – 29 July, 2005

Staff, Energy Bulletin

Tony Marmont Speaks About His Energy Farm / To market, to market / Going Green? Put Fruit in Your Tank, says Cyprus / A Local Eating Rhapsody
Moves afoot to counter U.S. Big Oil’s clout / Amy’s Kitchen pledges to use locally grown produce / Within Limits: Symptoms of Overshoot / First Field Tests in Germany of Low-Temperature Fuel Cells for Homes / Global Warming’s Strange Harvest / Why steelhead would say: ‘It’s the water, stupid!’
/ The Snow Must Go On / Australia: climate change wake-up call / Report: Big 5 ink new climate pact / US: climate deal complements Kyoto
US moves to sideline Kyoto / Local Initiatives to Address Climate Change / Top Ten George W. Bush Solutions For Global Warming / When it comes to the carbon crunch / Paleoclimate or Paleopolitics? / Small planet seeking saviour /
A turn for the better / Research clears cows of climate criminal status / Review of Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash

US Energy Bill Headlines – 29 July, 2005

Staff, Energy Bulletin

The US House and Senate have finally passed the long-awaited energy bill. The response from several US newspapers: “We’re underwhelmed.” Also, the EPA held back a report on fuel efficiency until after the bill was passed.

“In all likelihood, events are now set to run their course”

A few days ago Roger Pielke Jr. pointed to a paper (PDF) by Tim Dyson of the London School of Economics called “On development, demography and climate change: The end of the world as we know it?” Pielke called it “refreshingly clear thinking on climate change.” That’s true, if by “refreshingly clear” he means “weep-silently-aplogize-to-your-children-and- throw-yourself-out-a-window depressing.”

Fossil Fuel Headlines – 28th July, 2005

Staff, Energy Bulletin

Oregon Dept. Transport takes a peak at the future / The `peak oil’ controversy / Peak Oil: the turd on the table / The Problem with Natural Gas / Zimbabwe’s Bustle, Business Evaporate With Fuel Shortage / Video – Deffeyes predicts oil peak for Thanksgiving, 2005 / Yudhoyono: Indonesia’s oil to run out in next 15 years / Brazil to Achieve Oil Self-sufficiency by December / Venezuela May Not Meet Oil Output Goal, JPMorgan Says / UK Generators turn to coal as cost of natural gas soars / UK increasingly reliant on oil, gas / UK NG: The big chill / Living on brink of blackouts / Cost of electricity rising like summer heat / Regional power grid operator reports largest-ever peak load / The other gas is going up in price / Science of oil rigs: surviving Gulf storms / Uranium Demand Places Utah in Mining Mix / UK power industry backs future role for nuclear / Bush urges agencies to assess possible coal shortage / I haven’t felt much like discussing the Energy Bill… / The World Is Round: John Gray reviews Thomas Friedmans The World is Flat / Yemen cuts fuel prices after riots / Oil inflames Nigeria’s ethnic tensions / Exxon to Post Surge in Profit on Record Oil Prices, New Fields / Japans provocation in East China Sea very dangerous / Will China pose a threat to world energy security? / Provisions to Curb Oil Use Fall Out of Energy Bill / A crude approach / Energy Bill: Obnoxious-lite / Bush proposal calls for new drilling offshore / Bill Wouldn’t Wean U.S. Off Oil Imports, Analysts Say / Lawmakers Reach a Deal on New Energy Policies / The energy bill’s effect on [California]

Jim Kunstler’s Despair

Andrew Nimelman, Energy Bulletin

Jim Kunstler is a neo-con in despair. Many who are familiar with Kunstler’s work will find this statement surprising, perhaps even preposterous. But, in my view, it’s a perfectly logical inference, based on Kunstler’s recent work.

The three years of Peak Oil

What is the third date in the great Peak Oil saga? It is the year in which alternate energy sources finally offset the equivalent decline in crude oil production. Prior to that date, oil production will in general keep falling but the energy equivalent delivered by solar, wind, nuclear, etc. will always be less.

Sustainability and Environment Headlines – 27th July, 2005

Staff, Energy Bulletin

Farmers market feeding the poor / Couple does its part to avoid guzzling resources / How To Do Decentralized Energy / Lending a Hand to Argentina’s Protesters / The Green Machine That Could Be Detroit / Academics propose teaching organic farming / Report gives Nova Scotia a reality check, proposes new energy strategy / More and Dumber People – Hot and Hotter Planet / Climate change inevitable: Minister / Rainbow Warrior interrupts Newcastle’s coal operations / Farms spew out nitrogen oxides / Methane May Pack Double the Climate Punch of Earlier Estimates / Planet of the Plants / Mayor calls for action to fight global warming / Congress Told Hydrogen Fuel Decades from Being Practical / With a Push From the U.N., Water Reveals Its Secrets / Power plants worried as heat wave warms Great Lakes

David Holmgren: permaculture and energy descent

Lavonne Childs, Energy Bulletin

David’s talk focused on understanding how the decline in availability of inexpensive fossil fuels will impact society, and then segued into permaculture’s positive potentiality in the impending Energy Descent world

Fossil Fuel Headlines – 26th July, 2005

Staff, Energy Bulletin

Colin Campbell Savages Oil Majors’ “Profits from Scarcity” / How Existing Energy Technologies Can Offset Peak Oil / The Enron of OPEC / I Cannot Yet Skin A Deer / Here’s mud in your eye / Looking Back to the Peak: A Letter from the Future / End of Oil / What happens if oil output ‘peaks’? / US Transportation Energy Data Book: A Bible for Oil Deception / Norway’s oil output at 11-year low
World’s third largest exporter blames ‘technical problems’ for decline / Shift on MTBE May Clear Way for Energy Bill / Indonesia hit by petrol shortages / Cubans sweating out summer of power and water shortages / Powering the Future / US energy bill would nearly double ethanol output / Uncertainties Slow Push for Nuclear Plants / Michael Bagley – From Capitol Hill / Unocal Board Accepts Chevron’s Raised Bid