Climate – Aug 31
Ancient heat wave may be wave of future
Devastation of an atoll
Feedback loop caused by methane
Caribbean ‘faces stormier future’
Scientists fear global meltdown
Year: 2006
Peak oil – Aug 31
Von Hoffman: Honey, we killed the planet
BBC series on peak oil starts Sept 4
Entrepeneur T.J. Rodgers on solar & peak oil
Will the end of oil be the end of food?
Peak oil and permaculture
Steep decline in UK oil production (2)
Climate policy – Aug 31
McKibben: On a global-warming march
GW impacts on World Bank programmes
Investment & abrupt climate change
UK climate change protesters feel the heat
UK conservatives push market approach on climate
Food & agriculture – Aug 31
When genetically modified plants go wild
Monsanto buys ‘Terminator’ seeds company
Grist gets hungry (3)
New books tells us where our food comes from
Kitchen stories – a craving for fellowship
Biofuels – Aug 31
NYT: Fill up on corn if you can
NASA joins Brazilian biofuel effort
Rapier: Energy balance of ethanol versus gas
Nuclear – Aug 30
Malaysia may go for nuke energy
Australia should follow road to nuclear fusion
Koizumi to sign Kazakh Uranium pact
S. Africa weighs plan to enrich uranium
Renewables – Aug 30
The new energy companies
Giant turbines bring winds of change
to W. Texas
Alternative energy without being too green
Engineers race to steal nature’s secrets
Economics – Aug 30
Cheap goods ‘banquet’ may be over
Detroit sees cheap gas as history
$100/barrel oil would cause U.S. recession
Global trends hinder effort to curb US inflation
Oil industry – Aug 30
BP: Big problems for oil giant
Forward-looking thoughts from Shell
China to invest $5-billion in Venezuelan oil
Oil producers – Aug 30
Gadaffi scolds Libyans for reliance on oil
Chad orders foreign oil firms out
Bolivia’s Morales replaces head of state oil firm
Bicycles – Aug 30
Shanghai by bike:
Dodging cars as China drives
toward development
Safety and righteous fun for bicyclists
Maps to prevent bike accidents
Commentary: Peak Oil and the Fall of the Soviet Union
Was the cause of the cataclysmic collapse of the Soviet Union really the result of communist inefficiency and U.S. president Ronald Reagan’s Cold War military build up? Or was there an oil crisis that shocked the Soviet system?
