Climate – Aug 25
– Climate change shifting European seasons
– Cascades’ reddened forests
– Risky business (insurers & climate change)
– Air con is ruining our environment
Year: 2006
Helping cities, towns and municipalities adapt to peak oil
For readers interested in what can be done on a local level, please consider taking the following suggestions and recommendations to your local government leaders. (Report and recommendations from a member of the Portland Peak Oil Task Force.)
Peak oil – Aug 25
– Sydney newspaper profiles Heinberg
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Depletion estimates and the CGES
– DOE predicts gas shortages
(new Hirsch report)
– Peak pipelines
– Peak oil prophecies
Climate policy – Aug 25
– For sale: pollution – a good idea?
– McKibben: fired up over global warming
– Report: 6 Steps to beat global warming
– Colorado joins effort to fight global warming
– Calif. to act on its own on global warming
Transport – Aug 24
– “Autocism” – a modern pathology
– Roadway deaths at highest level in 15 years
– Put a plug in it (electric cars)
– Living in California without owning a car
Climate change – Aug 24
UK ‘could suffer Katrina-style flooding’ /
Top climatologist warns global warming will hit Vermont hard /
Climate linked to bubonic plague increase / The hottest hoax around! (satire)
Energy crises – Aug 24
Turkish power outages to follow if drought continues / South Africa: Cape’s third energy crisis / Nepalese protests sink fuel price hikes
Wind – Aug 24
– Whither wind?
A journey through the heated debate over wind power
– Wind power, downsized
– Wind power’s gusty forecast
Oil industry – Aug 24
– One crude dude: Chuck Hamel, oil industry whistleblower
– Shell Oil president advocates conservation
– BP revs up for carbon neutral motoring
– Russia overtakes Saudi Arabia as world’s leading oil producer – OPEC
Nuclear – Aug 24
– Slow start for revival of nuclear reactors
– Radioactive leak reaches nuclear plant’s groundwater
– Nuclear pitch for oil sands
Chimpanzees and culture change
“Female, age 40, seeks wild, swinger male for procreation purposes, no commitments. Bonobo preferred but regular chimpanzee acceptable.”
Energy policy – Aug 24
– Actor/environmental activist Ed Begley, Jr., on environmental and energy issues
– Alternative energy gets mainstream treatment
– Letter from Sweden: fossil fuel-free by 2020, maybe
