Climate – Oct 4
KyotoPlus: Escaping the Climate Trap
Climate inaction ‘has high cost’
Global warming will threaten millions say climate scientists
Coal said top enemy in fighting global warming
Year: 2006
Russia – Oct 4
Chief engineer at BP unit in Siberia is slain
Russian oil grab ‘puts western supplies at risk’
Russian giant sweeps into US towns with a $35mn campaign
Environment cop puts the screws to Shell’s Sakhalin
Gazprom starts to build pipelines connecting Russia and China
Oil Price – Oct 4
The Specter of Recession
Oil analysts raise 2007 price forecasts
That Falling Feeling
Peak oil – Oct 3
Post Carbon newsletter
Looks like a plateau
India: world about to run out of oil?
Heinberg interview
Schizophrenia in the British gas market
British energy customers must be wondering when the continued bad news of price increases will end. In a mini-version of “Peak Oil” in the UK, the sceptred isle will become and stay a net oil and gas importer next year.
U.S. energy policy – Oct 3
Energy vacation (Bush energy bill)
Gas pump politics
California: barrels of $ fuel oil tax fight
Hedge funds and financial collapse – Oct 3
Amaranth Advisors lose billions on gas futures
The Wizards of Money: House lever-edge at the derivatives casino
Henry C.K. Liu on hedge funds showdown with banks
Jeff Vial: Financial wizardry & collapse
Maurice Strong: Bring it down on purpose
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 3
GE develops hybrid lightbulb
Eco-mags go high gloss
West Coast Green – building is key
The language of green is universal…or is it?
In the battle to be green, the human factor works wonders
Solutions and sustainability – Oct 2
Dialogue tools and processes for social change
Wind turbines and solar panels in UK DIY stores
Green is the colour of spin
Peak Oil Video Conferencing challenges Airline emissions
Iranian Science Teachers May Be Enriching Students
Ethanol from Brazil and the USA
Brazilian success with its ethanol from sugar cane has been cited as an example of how the USA could get free from its oil imports by substituting ethanol for gasoline. But comparing USA ethanol from corn with Brazilian ethanol from sugar cane is like comparing mangoes and apples.
Aviation – Oct 2
New aircraft fuel could be pie in the sky
Boeing Says Biofuels Show Some Promise
Why We Need An X Prize for Eco-Friendly Air Travel
Climate – Oct 2
‘One degree and we’re done for’
Blasting A/C in the Arctic
Ecological upheaval on the edge of the ice
Cost of saving the planet: a year’s growth
Accounting for climate change in Northern forests
