Peak oil – Sept 19
It’s a dogma-eat-dogma world
Those who deride PO theory don’t know Jack
The forest and the trees – oil news imbalance
Discovery Channel sustainability series
ASPO Australia patron re-elected
Year: 2006
Climate policy – Sept 18
Ann Hancock on local greenhouse efforts
Bush ‘prepares emissions U-turn’
Energy for a cool planet
Iran – Sept 18
Iran oil bourse launch underway
Chavez greets Iranian president in Caracas
China asserts Iran’s right to civilian nuclear
Sinopec, Iran to sign deal
What war with Iran would look like
Iran nukes: compromise may be in the works
Allies under pressure as US wages financial war on Iran
Peak Oil – Sept 18
Reporter questions oil news
$15 oil? The cornucopians are fighting back
Pragmatists and heretics-PO and runaway GW
Penn. conference touts alternatives to oil
IEA’s Mandil: Instability drops, oil follows suit
Social Fertilizer: The big growth potential of urban agriculture
Community gardens are primarily hobbies here in Vancouver, but internationally they are known for their ability to feed entire cities.
Institutional investors warned about peak oil and climate change
A major report launched today warns institutional investors to pay attention to the dangers of climate change and peak oil. The fourth Carbon Disclosure Project report is the result of a collaboration of 225 institutional investors with combined assets of $31 trillion.
An Interview with Dennis Meadows – co-author of ‘Limits to Growth’.
I was very lucky at ASPO 5 to get to interview Dennis Meadows, one of the authors of what is probably the most famous environmental book in history, “Limits to Growth”.
Gore says tax CO2, not payrolls
In a major cliimate-change speech today at the NYU School of Law, Al Gore proposed:
– an immediate freeze on CO2 emissions
– replacing the payroll tax with pollution taxes
– joining the Kyoto Treaty
– looking for solutions not in a silver bullet but in “silver buckshot.”
Food & agriculture – Sept 18
Sustainable agriculture in CSIRO newsletter
African agriculture: seeds of hope
Study finds chemicals in biosolids
How to keep fires down in California scrub- chew it
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 18
LA Weekly on green building
Oil Depletion Mitigation Bill
Airlines increase disease risks
Book Review: How We Can Save the Planet
Energy policy – Sept 18
Let’s talk gas tax
Kunstler’s ‘wild hair’ column
Liberal Dems unveil plans for ‘green’ car tax
Critics: World Bank energy scheme misguided
US cuts funds for 2 renewable energy sources
The good news about oil prices is the bad news
California, taking big gamble, tries to curb greenhouse gases
Clinton reads Heinberg on peak oil
“I borrowed a book from [Bill Clinton] that he had just read—The Party’s Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies, by Richard Heinberg, not exactly summer reading—and it was full of underlinings and what looked like the most serious undergraduate’s markings, with lots of exclamation points.”
