Solutions & sustainability – Jan 5
The turning of the worm [soil]
Toward energy self-sufficiency
Why educating girls pays off more
New initiative to deglobalize economy of SF Bay Area
Staff
Poor face bigger disservice than higher taxes on autos
To paraphrase my late father: Use your brains. The nation that is ignoring the poor now, when there is fuel to be had, will be even less inclined to pay attention to them if there is too little fuel available for everybody’s transportation and life-support needs.
U.S. energy policy – Jan 5
Democrats want to shift oil tax, give to green energy
Oil group blasts Democrats’ tax agenda
Interview: California environmental adviser Tamminen
Alternative-energy spending fizzles out
Energy policy – Jan 5
Europe lays out plan to tackle energy dilemma
Oil tension in Sao Tome and Principe
India’s PM says West is environmentally wasteful
Vision for a new low-energy economy
The peak oil crisis: 2006 in review
The returns are not in yet, but anecdotal evidence is accumulating that many parts of Africa, Central America, and Asia are starting to shut down. For these peoples, the oil age, such as it was, is already over.
Scientists’ report on ExxonMobil’s climate disinformation campaign
A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists offers the most comprehensive documentation to date of how ExxonMobil has adopted the tobacco industry’s disinformation tactics, as well as some of the same organizations and personnel, to cloud the scientific understanding of climate change and delay action.
Energy: That’s oil, folks…
The prominent journal Nature has a detailed report on peak oil and its skeptics. (Excerpts)
Climate – Jan 3
Himalaya’s receding glaciers suffer neglect
Australia warming faster than world
NYT’s Revkin: New middle stance in climate debate
Science activists blast ExxonMobil on warming
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 3
Perils and rewards of carless parenting
He’s still following the sun
Surprising secret to a long life: stay in school
Black earth
Urban & housing – Jan 3
Interview with “Subdivided” filmmaker
Revenge of the small
Chicago architects envision the future city
Parin Shah on urban environmental accords
Principles for sustainable tech
Comparing a slide rule with a pocket calculator suggests a set of four principles critical for selecting technologies meant to survive peak oil and function in the deindustrial age that will follow it.
Biofuels and agriculture – Jan 3
Biofuels 2006: How is the value chain shaping up?
Animal fat as biofuel?
Corn faces ethanol challenge (switchgrass)
Iowa faces fuel vs. food dilemma
Soybeans may grow scarce
Poor harvests to push bread prices up
