Organic farming uses less energy for same yields
Organic farming produces same the corn and soybean yields as conventional farms, but consumes less energy and no pesticides, a Cornell study finds.
Fossil Fuel Headlines – 24th July, 2005
Gas price rumor causes fueling frenzy In Michigan / Surfing the tsunami of change: following up with Plan B preparations / Oilcast: China, The Yuan and oil / Demand Destruction: Sir Bob, Bono and Peak Oil / New Statesman review of Twilight in the Desert / Rationing /
Yemen: Price hike enrages public / Yemen: 13 Dead in Riots Over World Bank-Backed Price Hikes / Shortages aren’t over, Duncan says [Canadian] Energy Minister blames previous government for problems / Hybrid Cars Burning Gas in the Drive for Power / States pull the plug on electricity deregulation / California: Emergency declared for state energy grid / Dilemma over diesel / As prices climb, more drivers flee pumps without paying / China Unpegs Itself / PINR Intelligence Brief: Unocal / Russia ready to deliver 15 million tons of oil to China in 2006 / High fuel costs threaten to choke off Asia’s burgeoning growth
Sustainability and Environment Headlines – 25 July, 2005
Heaven Help Bus – A visit to Iceland spurs dreams of a hydrogen future / Don’t Get Fresh With Me! / Will quantifying industrial symbiosis improve the world? / Bringing organic farming down to earth / Horse-and-Plow Farming Making a Comeback / Students Flock to Campus Organic Farms / Scientist testifies on global warming / Warming Up to a New Task / A Bid to Chill Thinking – Behind Joe Barton’s Assault on Climate Scientists / Let the Real Climate Debate Begin / US Senate Panel Begins Work on Greenhouse Gas Cuts / Green groups target ExxonMobil in change of tactics / Alaska preserve hangs in the balance / World Bank to Take Lead in New Climate Change Plan
Chevron, Oil, and China
“It took us 125 years to use the first trillion barrels of oil,” notes Chevron Corporation’s two full-page ad that began appearing in July in the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Financial Times and elsewhere. “We’ll use the next trillion in 30,” the ad continues, thus quietly admitting to the Peak Oil that the industry has not previously disclosed.
The Tragic Abuse of Corn
It was one of those things that you can’t quite believe is real. I was flipping through a magazine and saw an ad for a stove that burns corn kernels. For heat. Corn is food, not fuel, I thought, but the ad assured me that “Corn is replenished annually. It is a never-ending energy source, and thus is the new alternative fuel of choice.”
Report on UK Peak Oil Day: Peak Speak
PowerSwitch recently held a conference outside London, titled Peak Speak, providing a platform to discuss the causes, consequences, and mitigation of the peak and decline in global oil production, and action that can be taken. Report includes notes on the speakers, topics they covered, and links to presentations.
Want trumps need in ’05 energy crisis
Without the energy-saving advances of the past 30 years – more efficient homes, appliances and cars – we would be using 40 percent more energy today… But over the years, the country has squandered opportunities to cut even deeper into consumption…
Turning tar sands into oil
Huge, tarlike deposits in Canada and Venezuela will be critical over the next 50 years to the supply of liquid fuels as the world’s production of easily pumped oil plummets. Yet, turning this nonconventional oil source into synthetic oil is not likely to be the solution to our energy crisis, as some claim. Canada is no Saudi Arabia.
Experts take new look at Appalachian Basin for deep reserves
Spurred by the nation’s relentless thirst for energy, geologists are suddenly taking a fresh look at the oldest oil-producing basin in the world. They are wondering if Mother Nature stashed a jackpot in the cellar, down deep where the rocky roots of the Appalachian Mountains spread into Ohio.
Fossil Fuel Headlines – 21 July, 2005
Worldwide energy crunch and how to keep [the power] coming / Roscoe Bartlett tries again / Denial: No, It Really Isn’t Just a River in Egypt, Part 2 / Listening to the experts / Turning tar sands into oil – Potential sources in North America / Norway’s oil output at 11-year low, 2.29 mln bpd / UK Energy Demand to Outstrip Supply / Liquefied gas fills gap left by North Sea decline / Why US is shifting nuclear stand with India / Fuel’s forbidden fruit / Bid by Chevron in oil deal to thwart China / Letter From Ecuador: The High Cost of Oil / Chavez denounces Venezuelan cardinal as coup-mongering “bandit” / Oil Fuels Suriname-Guyana Border Clash / Already tight, oil supply is vulnerable to disruption / Oil companies add value and increase danger / Greenspan warns on fuel, housing / A shrinking crop of young farmers / Japan’s move in East China Sea makes conflict “invevitable”: report / Oil manoeuvres by China, India, challenge US / Opec Loses Its Grip on World Oil Prices
Sustainability and Environment Headlines – 22 July, 2005
Portugal Pins Energy Hopes on Wind Farm Licenses
/ Beijing digs deep in quest for green energy /
Energy crisis? Take a vacation / Survey shows costs of energy conservation going down / Ecological alarm bell is on our porch – Ocean upwelling is the foundation of life as we know it in the North Pacific / Protecting, Conserving Water Resources Could Save Communities Immense Sums – Report / All fired up – gas exploration and extraction in US Rockies / The Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline: BP’s Time Bomb / Let the Real Climate Debate Begin / Poll says legislators should act on climate / Californians believe impact of warming has already begun / Is Global Warming Leading to Extinction? / Scientists Fear Rising Temperatures Are Endangering Many Species / Blue Skies, Green Cities – US Mayors lead / Clinton warns of global warming dangers / Organic food is a healthy deal
Crude Fight
Wildcat drillers in China are battling Beijing after the State resumed rights over their oil wells.
