Portland releases draft of peak oil plan
The City of Portland’s Peak Oil Task Force released its 88-page draft report for public comment.
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Where Is the energy for freedom?
The future is coming fast, and we’ll choose it through our actions as citizens, consumers and voters. The question remains: Do we have the energy for freedom?
Biofuels – Jan 21
Mexico feeling effects of ethanol boom
Corn soars, Mexico sets price limits
Analysts predict ethanol to power higher grain prices
Mexico caps tortilla price
Sweet dreams (local ethanol with sweet potatoes)
Whither oil? – Jan 21
What happened to the oil boom?
Reality check in a tumbling oil market
Trying to make sense of the new GSCI
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 21
Carbon reduction action groups (CRAGs) in UK
Nobel laureates: sustainability needs more than science
Beyond the green corporation
Tree hugger wants a beautiful wooden house
Latin America takes on urbanization
10 ways to green your community
Cllimate – Jan 21
The “Monbiot challenge” vs social justice
Stephen Hawking warns of climate change
The final verdict from the IPCC
The unknown unknowns
With each doubling of knowledge, we get a doubling of ignorance.
Ending industrialism
We will have to be much more imaginative as a people if we are to take meaningful action to deal with global warming. It is a simple truth that economic activity that transforms the Earth into consumer products is the main problem.
The ethical challenges of healthcare and peak oil
It is particularly likely that ethical dilemmas will arise during the redesign of the healthcare system as a response to peak oil. This is because there will be a conflict between what is best for society as a whole, versus what is best for the individual.
Peak oil – Jan 21
Update from Kenneth Deffeyes
Conoco reserves disappoint analysts
Modern economic theories unable to tackle peak oil, global warming
Rep. Bartlett supports H.R. 6 energy bill
Australian drought – Jan 21
Drought and corporate profit
Australia ponders climate future
Coral study: more Asian monsoons = more severe Aus droughts
Supermarket’s drought action day
Drought drag on economic growth
More: Snakes, floods, and cracking buildings…
Oil sands – Jan 21
U.S. urges ‘fivefold expansion’ in Alberta oilsands production
Close energy ties to U.S. limit action on climate change
Du sable dans l’engrenage – good Canadian broadcast (French)
Nuclear power in oilsands extraction questioned
