Technology – Mar 20
£25 fridge gadget that could slash greenhouse emissions
Catalyst could help turn CO2 into fuel
Science turns sun, surf into green energy
Staff
Water – Mar 20
Pollution, dams, climate change threatening world’s greatest rivers, WWF says
No-Holds-Barred Fight promised over Brazil River Project
Recycled water fight begins
Water prophecy may sink Baillieu
Invasive mussels in SoCal water supply
Transport – Mar 19
High Speed Passenger Rail Act, Draft
Highway speed limit plan irks Germans
Return of the Electric Car
Transport issues prompt voters rethink
Comments to the National Petroleum Council
A report on peak oil by the National Petroleum Council is due out in the next few months. Randy Udall wrote them: “The NPC has a wonderful opportunity to reframe the discussion around peak oil. After thoroughly studying the evidence, I hope that you conclude, as many of us have, that peak oil is
near.”
Nuclear – Mar 19
How reporters learned to stop worrying and love nuclear front groups
Russia to build 3 plants each year from 2016
Alarms rang ‘nonstop’ during 1999 nuclear accident
Thousands protest new nuclear reactors
Yucca Mountain cost: $26.9 billion
A foundation for local response to peak oil and climate change
Attractive visual presentations that integrate peak oil and climate change into the planning frameworks used by municipal and regional decision makers.
Climate Policy – Mar 19
Courting air travel is unsustainable
Chinese Premier hedges on climate response
Canada’s Tories eliminate climate policy group
180 New Hampshire towns put climate on agenda
Gore gets 300k signatures on call for action
British Columbia aligns with California to create a green bloc along Pacific
Global opinion warming
Peak oil – March 19
Federal judge introduces lawyers to Peak Oil
Matt Simmons discusses PO on CNBC
Turkish diesel is close to 300$ a barrel
Pemex CEO: Company is in critical condition
New website for “How Cuba Survived Peak Oil”
Oil & gas producers – March 19
“Gas OPEC” to be created in Doha next month
Reckless actions have consequences…
Kuwait looking to natural gas, nuclear options
Biofuels – March 19
Ethanol’s growing list of enemies
Ecuador petition – Palmoil firms robbing Indian land
Jakarta: Alternative energy needs to focus on waste recycling
A hoarders guide to the end of the world
Mention the word “hoarder” in a meeting of organizers and a collective shiver will run down our spines. A hoarding client’s clutter brings us head to head with a vision that is out of balance. Whether a result of unconscious compulsions, chronic shopping, expectations that don’t add up or an inability to reconcile cause with effect, it all comes to bear on the limits of space
An uneasy alliance
The bulk of scientific research remains focused on manipulating and dominating the natural world rather than finding ways to live sustainably in it.
