Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The Canadian oil sands will not save us / Interview with EnCana spokesman Protti / Some oilsands projects could end up shelved – rising costs / Cost of Athabasca could hit $20-billion /
Oilsands: Alberta’s gravy train – ‘single largest hydrocarbon deposit on the Earth’ / Canada’s oilsands rush hits the buffers
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Arianna Huffington: Who killed the electric car? / Costly tar hurts paving / Blowing in the wind (sail revival)
US State Department: “Clean Energy Solutions” / Greenspan raises red flag on energy / How a ‘green’ Britain should look in the year 2020 /
Revealed: Blair’s energy blueprint / Russia’s energy wasteland / EU pitches Russia free trade for fuel / Dear Financial Times, ‘Energy Security is within our control’
Bjorn Lomborg is Environmentalist Baiter Supreme, the one guy with some letters after his name who is wheeled out in the media to represent the scientific face of climate denial.
We in India who have lived in a biodiversity and biomass energy economy are rushing into oil addiction precisely when the global oil supply is running low and prices are running high.
The last perfect day / Richard Neville: Power down, pecker up / Linearize this… / Portland announces peak oil task force / Minneasota columnist on PO /
Peak Oil? (Australian TV July 10, 12:)
Rising levels of CO2 threaten marine organisms / Grain production dropping; fuel thefts rising / Wildfire increase linked to climate / Climate change making ominous mark on Midwest / Disease, habitat loss and climate change threatens amphibians / A chat with freshwater experts Peter Gleick and William K. Reilly
Tapping the latent power in what’s left around the barnyard / Shell says biofuels from food crops “morally inappropriate” / Malawi: turning the future into charcoal / Malaysia weighs palm oil share for food, energy
Masanobu Fukuoka – natural farming /
Jamie’s School Dinners – 10 Insights for Energy Descent /
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System /
Feel lonely? You’re not alone
Oil rigs leaving Gulf of Mexico / Oil companies reluctant to invest in Iraq / Fox-hailed deepwater well a modest gas find / Costs explode at Shell Canadian venture
In North America we spend 90 percent of our time inside buildings where the temperature, moisture, and even the oxygen content of the air we breath are all kept at acceptable levels by – you guessed it – cheap energy.
