Solutions and sustainability – Nov 9

San Francisco’s clean-tech report card /
Cool idea helps save energy, environment /
When cleaner air Is a biblical obligation /
Sweating the big stuff at Grist Magazine /
Bill McKibben: Curitiba as a global model for development /
To save endangered butterfly, become a butterfly /
Interview: Sir Jonathon Porritt – a carbon-constrained world

Politics and Economics Headlines – 7 November, 2005

What do you want Dubai? / IEA forecast of future oil price rises by a third / Arabs riot in oil-rich Iran province / Iran oil bourse:a threat to the petrodollar? / Bush urged to use heating oil reserve / Denvers’ Mayor sets scooter example / Oil producers are urged to invest in more capacity

Peak Oil Headines – 7 November, 2005

Faith-based energy policy? / A way out of Iraq: relocalize economic life / UK gov. to launch new oil depletion study / Peak oil workshop for community leaders Dec 2-4, Illinois / Life After Cheap Oil — Apollo [Alliance] and Beyond / Tools with a life of their own / New peak oil sites / Halliburton, BP and Russian Black Gold / Oil no longer the dressing for the ‘3,000 mile Caesar salad’ / Oil: the beginning of the end

Solutions and sustainability – Nov 6

Suburbia project: the experts reply /
Green washing: get your company to clean up its janitorial act /
Entrepreneurs hear that green is trendy at SF conference /
CSIRO Sustainability Network Newsletter /
Salon’s Climate warriors and heroes /
Interview with Seattle green architect Johnpaul Jones /
All the king’s media – the Web as counter-propaganda /
CSIRO goes for high tech and big impact

Other Energy Headlines – 4 November, 2005

‘Devastating’ winter ahead, says UK chemical giant / US Gov. to announce energy measures within weeks / IEA warns of 50% oil price rise by 2030 / Alt.energy not in cards at ExxonMobil / Palm oil seen playing role in EU biofuels / Hydrogen researchers step on the gas [2] / Can hybrids do it?

Politics and Economics Headlines – 4 November, 2005

Indonesia’s inflation soars after fuel price hike / Bulgaria faces energy pinch / Amnesty: Nigeria must end army killings in oil delta / Energy prices push up IT salary adjustments / US car sales hit brakes after storms, discounts / Oil execs to be asked to justify profits / Passamaquoddy groups sue US Bureau of Indian Affairs over LNG project

Politics and Economics Headlines – 1 November, 2005

7 Alaskan officials quit after flap with Gov. over pipeline / The Struggle For Power Post Wilma / US: The End of Pensions / OPEC urgers oil companies to invest in refining / U.S. Oil Co’s unlikely to spend profits on new refineries / Big Oil earning but isn’t spending / The real story behind ExxonMobil’s $10 bil. profit / ‘$US70 oil will cost Australia billions’ – report / Sudan to share oil wealth with former rebels / Mozambique establishes Scientific Energy Council

Peak Oil Headlines – 1 November, 2005

If Oprah Talks, Will People Listen? / Peak oil forum at Parliament House, Sydney / The Industry: Gastronomics / PowerSwitch Newsletter October 2005 / Saudi Arabia Oil Production Tapped Out / Chemistry Nobel Winner & Energy Champion Richard E. Smalley, 62, Dies / Peak Oil: There’s No ‘There’ There