Food & agriculture – July 18
Lester Brown: supermarkets and service stations now competing for grain / How the energy crisis will help my diet / India: organic farming, answer to farmers’ suicides? / Peak oil preview: North Korea & Cuba
Year: 2006
Solutions & sustainability – July 18
Our wasteful ways will finish us off / William A. McDonough talk: Designing the next industrial revolution / Welcome to “braided” time /
David Korten and Joanna Macy: the great turning – from empire to earth community
Peak oil – July 17
Kunstler: The twilight of mechanized lumpenleisure /
Heinberg interview: Peak experience /
Antartica: All eyes on the last wilderness /
Peak Oil mentioned in G8 report /
Thinking The Unthinkable
Other energy – July 17
China’s Wind Power /
China set to invest $200bn in renewable energy sector /
China: Natural gas discovery in sea /
OPEC: 07 Non-OPEC Oil Supply Seen Highest In Decades /
Greenland makes oil companies melt
Energy geopolitics – July 17
Industrialized dilemma: What to do about Russia? /
Putin says can’t give Japan guarantees on planned oil pipeline /
Iraqi oil official seized /
From Group of 8, Energy Focus Is on Oil /
Did World War III start yesterday morning?
Energy & economics – July 17
Pinched at the Pump /
Britain and world set for ‘hard landing’ /
Economic Gains Mask Underlying Crises – Report /
Is Oil at the Tipping Point?
China: first target consumption to improve environment
Our country can grow in a more self-reliant manner and without further damage to the environment. We will be offering products and services that are unique and are better geared to serving the needs of the world’s future. The market for these environmentally friendly products and services will go beyond the imagination once they are marketed to the mainstream population. China’s peaceful rise will be utterly credible, and it will be wholeheartedly welcomed by the world.
The axes of energy
Figuring out how to meet the world’s demand for energy involves choosing between two complex formulas: Cost optimization based on the cheapest forms of energy available vs. the risk of pumping the resulting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. (Summary of a talk by Dr. Nathan Lewis of Caltech)
Atomic balm – a nuclear renaissance? (excerpts)
The NY Times gives a critical and comprehensive report on a possible renaissance in nuclear energy. Peak oil, global warming and `stabilization wedges’ are discussed. Gertner writes: “…to spend a few months listening to those who study the earth’s energy resources is to get the feeling that we are in for a very difficult century — and one that depends on an immediate future of difficult and unpleasant choices.”
Is alt-energy a distraction from real solutions?
Both wind-power supporters and opponents replied to my column last week.
The bizarre dance of wind power
Local wind opponents and right-wing think tanks.
Study cites plan to end U.S. oil imports
Sympathetic coverage of a plan by Roger Bezdek, coauthor of “The Hirsch Report.” The four-part plan suggests: coal-to-liquid (Fischer-Tropsch process), pumping CO2 into old oil fields, biomass as a feedstock for synthetic fuel, and oil shale.
