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Staff As if gold weren’t bad enough, now they have found oil
Transparency urged in U.S. payments to oil producers
What’s happened to Iraq’s oil?
Sunni politicians critical of Iraqi oil law
Exxon sees technology, local needs as Mideast key
An attack could have cataclysmic implications for the region, for the world economy, and not least for the oil import-dependent and nearly bankrupt US.
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Russian intelligence sees U.S. military buildup on Iran border
U.S. launches show of force in Persian Gulf
U.S. Navy: Iran did not fire at U.S. warship
Oil spikes more than $5
What makes the crisis of industrial society so challenging to cope with is the way it unfolds out of the very strategies that worked so well in other contexts. Current attempts to replace oil with ethanol — in effect, pouring our food supply into our gas tanks — point to an urgent need to reconsider some of our most basic assumptions about what exactly the problem is.
UK Government overestimates benefits of nuclear power and underestimates risks of nuclear proliferation and terrorism, says new report.
Shrinking to Fit the Interstices
How green grows my roof
Low-carbon houses given tax breaks
Venezuela to sell $5 Billion in oil co. bonds
Recent kidnappings of foreigners in Niger delta
China starts drilling Asia’s deepest well
Total Confusion in Iran
CERA lists 15 countries it believes will expand production
This Quiz presents the Peak Oil story in a different format. Discussion questions and additional references are provided at the end, so that the material can be used in a classroom setting.
Lester Brown: Massive diversion of U.S. grain to fuel cars is raising world food prices
WaPo: Corn can’t solve our problem
China’s corn exports may plunge as local demand rises
Whether they realize it or not, policymakers are deeply engaged in the “wedges” game – imagining how to replace energy technologies that produce greenhouse emissions with less-harmful alternatives. But we have to play the wedges game fair.
US Congress holds hearing on oil dependence
McFarlane: Renewable energy is best solution to terror threats
Big Oil buys Berkeley
Energy policy makes strange bedfellows
In Marin, walkers, bikers & hikers rule the road
China’s gas use to increase 24% by 2010
Transatlantic open skies deal will undo CO2 curbs, say Greens
How does one fight back without destroying the very principles of openness that make it possible to draw on the talents of all while safeguarding freedom of expression?
