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Soaring oil prices and demands for energy security are boosting the attractiveness of low-quality sources of petroleum, such as tar sands and coal, at the risk of causing significant environmental damage and increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, according to a new study.
Liposuctioned fat could be bio-diesel fuel
Can biodiesel compete on price?
Grist biofuels series shifts into future tense
As alternative energy heats up, environmental concerns grow
Democrats may give alt energy a new push
Discover: Living the good life without oil
Yergin: A great bubbling
The “Iran Oil Bourse” project, beloved of Internet conspiracy theorists, has taken on something of a mythical character, not unlike the Loch Ness Monster, with persistent sightings but an absence of actual manifestation. Hopefully this article will both dispel the myths, and set the scene for what is potentially an extremely important development, particularly for the Islamic world.
PBS debate on peak oil
William Clark: Peak oil, petrocurrencies and the emerging multi-polar world
Peak oil era will be hard on Hawaii
Oil producers shun dollar
Iran replaces dollar with euro in most oil dealings
Who’ll be the heretic-turned-hero for our economic age?
Oil field delays = higher 2010 crude price: EIA
A sea of oil – the Caspian
Geopolitics move back into focus for oil market
The peak oil movement lacks enough connectors and salespeople. Many of those concerned about peak oil come from technical backgrounds: physics, geology, engineering and computer science. In other words, the peak oil movement has an embarrassment of mavens. This is a great plus, but not enough.
How many farmers do we need to change the world?
McKibben On reforming our supersized society
Slow clothing
‘Rock star of climate change’ Stern frozen out
Transport taxes to tackle climate change
Fuel duty and the effect of oil prices on the UK economy
Democrats plan oil royalties inquiry
House rejects push to renegotiate contracts
Congress urged to close oil royalty loophole
Spending on imported food hits all-time high
Ag crime wave grows in California
Black market in water stolen from farm tanks
Junk food, junk prices
Search for crops that can survive global warming
Experts worry warmer Earth will slash farm yields
