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Times change, will attitudes? / Living with fewer resources / The battle for oil fields is a deadly game / It’s Not the End Of the Oil Age says Yergin / Indonesia’s State oil company on the brink of crisis / US Refinery Fires push Crude Above US$60 / Flood shuts down India’s largest hydro project / US Energy Bill does little to cut oil habit / The Week in Sustainable Vehicles / Uzbekistan and America’s Future Conflicts

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

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]

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

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

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

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

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

Wanted: A Perfectly Local Chicken / Welcome to Plan B – Preparations and policies for petrocollapse and climate distortion / Slowly, the Shared Car Is Making Inroads in Europe / UK food study reveals hidden £9bn costs of transport / Cultural Revolution, American Style: Unpetroleum / A turn for the better / Danish Scientists Developing Solar Cell / Demand pushes solar panel firm to build new plant / Successful trial of Energetech Wave Energy device / Green Buildings Spring to Life, Thanks to Government Credits / Scientists Raise Alarm About Ocean Health / Unborn Babies Soaked in Chemicals, Survey Finds / Ringing the alarm for Earth / The Revolution Will Be Localized – Sundance getaway converts mayors into climate activists / Climate Scientists See Intimidation in Letter from House Energy Chair

Second U.S. Conference on “Peak Oil” and Community Solutions / It’s the rate of extraction, stupid! / Jason Bradford, founder of the Willits Economic Localization (WELL) / Nicaragua hits the crunch first / How much oil do we really have? / Oil Supertanker Bookings Reach Highest Level This Year in July / Prince sees dollar peg as key to a Gulf ‘euro’ / China lodges solemn representations to Japan’s approval of oil, gas drill / Why Iraq oil money hasn’t fueled rebuilding / Sinister Paradise – Does the Road to the Future End at Dubai? / Oil revolution will shake nation / Four Warnings of the Apocalypse / World angst over rising oil prices / Oil prices alone can’t control demand / Our Post-Oil Future Needs a Push / JAL president says int’l routes under review to cut costs