UK: Nuclear plants say they deserve credit for ‘green’ energy
As the nuclear power industry stages a nationwide comeback, New England is emerging as a major battleground in the industry’s campaign to be recognized as a ”green” energy source.
Creating A Sustainable Future
Creating A Sustainable Future (CASF) is planning to establish a people-centered professional community for sustainable living. The community would be based around a progressive learning center.
The Marginal Price of Oil
Many individuals could save themselves a great deal of aggravation by recognizing the fundamental and permanent (or soon-to-be permanent) changes in the crude and products markets instead of berating OPEC and others about some obsolete notion of a fair price for oil.
Scientists debate decline of oil stores: Sooner or later?
Scientists meeting at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco debated Tuesday whether the world has plenty of oil for centuries to come — or if it faces impending shortages that might trigger economic chaos, even war, in coming decades.
End of Oil Could Fuel ‘End of Civilization as We Know It’
Opponents in a long-running debate over when the world will run out of oil squared off Tuesday in a crowded room of scientists, reaching only one conclusion: The supply of fossil fuels is fixed and the world economy will eventually have to wean itself from oil.
For A Change, OPEC Is Worried
Supply is ahead of demand — but falling prices probably won’t last long.
Let’s stop sleepwalking through history
For the last two centuries the burning of fossil fuel – coal, natural gas and crude oil – has been propelling human civilization. But fossil resources are finite – they really will run out – and their use has altered Earth’s atmosphere. On both fronts, Americans are in denial.
Secret and unreliable world of oil statistics
In few industries do statisticians have to behave like spies, but those charged with collecting data on oil supplies have to rely on secret networks of informers in terminals around the world, who monitor tanker timetables and scrutinise shipping movements to report on changes in import and export volumes.
Sustainability planning underway
Some residents of Willits, California are using community planning to prepare local sustainable responses to the coming global energy peak.
The Outlook for the World Oil Market
Lord Browne claims that there are no pressing physical supply constraints on oil.
Airlines ‘end 2004 $5bn in red’
The world’s airline industry is set to rack up losses of almost $5bn (£2.6bn, 3.6bn euros) this year, global airline body IATA has forecast.
Climate forecast soars into the red
By 2050 heatwaves like that of 2003, which killed 15,000 in Europe and pushed British temperatures above 38C (100F) for the first time, will seem “unusually cool”, the Hadley Centre for Climate Change says.
