One Roof at a Time
With no help from the Bush administration — but plenty from Europe, Japan, New York, and California — solar power is edging into the mainstream.
Towards Alternative Cities, the Green-Friendly Way
Alarmed by the pace at which consumer-driven lifestyles are destroying the planet’s resources, a leading environmental body has set its sights on creating a green-friendly haven replete with houses, restaurants, shops and hotels.
US military on the scent of oil
The Pentagon hopes that its plan, the Global Posture Review, when fully implemented, will allow for rapid, tailored responses to contingencies that could arise from any one of a number of “vital national-security interests”. However, two of these circumstances are paramount: countering any new outbreaks in the “global war on terror” and reliable access to energy resources.
US: Economists consider nightmare scenario
After years of relative calm on the inflation front, Americans are being battered by $2-a-gallon gasoline, rising food prices and higher medical bills. And there are fears that price pressures could worsen in 2005.
Peak Oil: Sustainability with Teeth (2004 Peak Oil Conference)
We have only a dwindling amount of time to build lifeboats—that is, the needed alternative infrastructure. It has been clear for at least 30 years what characteristics this should have—organic, small-scale, local, convivial, cooperative, slower paced, human-oriented rather than machine-oriented, agrarian, diverse, democratic, culturally rich, and ecologically sustainable.
Peak Oil Update: First U.S. Peak Oil Conference, Financial Foresight
Over 200 people gathered from around the U.S. to listen to peak oil
experts Richard Heinberg and Julian Darley and create strategies for a community-based reponse to
global oil peak.
Peak Oil, Stolen Elections, Energy Wars: An Interview with Michael Ruppert
Mike Ruppert is the publisher/editor of From the Wilderness or FTW, a newsletter he founded in March 1998 by mailing out 68 copies to friends and researchers. FTW is now read by more than 16,000 subscribers in forty countries including forty members of the US Congress.
Fighting for the Right to Clean Energy
The first Texas Clean Energy Congress, with more than 150 attendees from more than 50 organizations, convened in Austin this week and ratified on Monday a Declaration of Sustainability and a Clean Energy Bill of Rights.
Main production unit of Yukos to be auctioned on Dec 19
The Russian government will auction off Yuganskneftegas, the main production unit of embattled oil giant Yukos, on December 19 with a starting price of 246.75 billion rubles (8.65 billion dollars), the federal property fund announced.
OPEC Cuts 2004, 2005 Oil Demand Estimates on Slower Economy
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, producer of more than a third of the world’s oil, cut its estimate for the growth in world demand this year and next as high prices hurt economic growth.
Tension rises as China scours the globe for energy
China’s insatiable demand for energy is prompting fears of financial and diplomatic collisions around the globe as it seeks reliable supplies of oil from as far away as Brazil and Sudan.
US: Renewable Energy Takes a Back Seat to Hydrogen
Washington, DC — Move over solar, wind power, geothermal and other renewable energy technologies – it’s all about hydrogen these days.
