Dysfunction – Jan 20
Traffic disaster towers over L.A.
Texas view on environment is 18 lanes wide
Burtynsky photos on consumerist capitalism
The end of the world as they know it
Staff
Peak oil – Jan 20
Revenge of the Shia?
Cubic Miles of Oil (CMOs): Getting a grasp on oil production volumes
Pemex predicts production drop
Pemex faces change or drying up
Climate attitude turnaround?
A coalition for firm limit on emissions
Power companies endorse emissions cap bill
Oil companies warm to law on emissions
Warming no longer taboo at Natl Parks Service
Confessions of an alleged ExxonMobil whore
China – Jan 20
China to get tough on green design
Will 2007 be China’s Year of Gasoline imports?
China starts thinking ‘alternative energy’
US farming disaster: a prediction for China?
Climate science – Jan 20
Life in California post-global warming
Surge in carbon levels raises fears of runaway warming
Landmark UN study backs climate theory
IPCC: New warnings on climate change
GAO: U.S. energy R&D, policy are inadequate
It is unlikely that DOE’s current level of R&D funding or the nation’s current energy policies will be sufficient to deploy alternative energy
sources in the next 25 years that will reverse our growing dependence on imported oil or the adverse environmental effects of using conventional
fossil energy.
5 minutes to midnight
The dangers posed by climate change are nearly as dire as those posed by nuclear weapons. The effects may be less dramatic in the short term than the destruction that could be wrought by nuclear explosions, but over the next three to four decades climate change could cause drastic harm to the habitats upon which human societies depend for survival.
Peak oil production
[On a trip to China to talk about energy,] I was pleasantly surprised when they began their discussion of energy by saying post-oil. They get it.
Bush on climate change
Bush readies speech on climate change
Bush set for climate change U-turn
White House denies climate change U-turn
Climate policy – Jan 18
Stern upbeat over climate action, responds to critics
Science and faith join forces
Exxon softens climate-change stance
Chrysler questions climate change
Env ministers lack clout on global warming
U.S.
cutbacks impede climate studies
Canada can get rich by going green, Dion says
Is good weather bad for sustainable energy?
My Compact Year
About 5 months into the Compact, I dreamt that I was at Crate & Barrel buying lamps and furnishings I didn’t need. At which point I thought to myself, “Oh no, I’m going to have to confess my purchases to the Compact Group.”
Transport – Jan 17
China: rebirth of the bicycle?
End of the road for the US gas guzzler
Aviation’s role in climate change causes storm
Public transportation saves $6,200 per household, 1.4 billion gallons of gas
