Environment – Oct 8
Wake up to IT’s energy crisis
Africa: Europe’s new dumping ground
Indonesian schools shut for haze
Detroit’s lack of trees creates environmental crisis
Staff
Energy and Californian land use planning
The California Legislature must revise the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), Environmental Impact Report (EIR) to include a specific section on energy, including project energy needs by resource type.
Peak Oil – Oct 5
It starts to look like a plateau
Yet another ‘inconvenient truth’
HK Kunstler – Making Other Arrangements
David Korten: The Great Turning
Communities, Refuges, and Refuge-Communities
How do our metaphors for Peak Oil direct our thought about its severity? This essay examines this question and others that relate to Peak Oil preparations and the debate within the peaknik community about how bad it might get.
Russia – Oct 4
Chief engineer at BP unit in Siberia is slain
Russian oil grab ‘puts western supplies at risk’
Russian giant sweeps into US towns with a $35mn campaign
Environment cop puts the screws to Shell’s Sakhalin
Gazprom starts to build pipelines connecting Russia and China
Climate – Oct 4
KyotoPlus: Escaping the Climate Trap
Climate inaction ‘has high cost’
Global warming will threaten millions say climate scientists
Coal said top enemy in fighting global warming
Oil Price – Oct 4
The Specter of Recession
Oil analysts raise 2007 price forecasts
That Falling Feeling
Schizophrenia in the British gas market
British energy customers must be wondering when the continued bad news of price increases will end. In a mini-version of “Peak Oil” in the UK, the sceptred isle will become and stay a net oil and gas importer next year.
Peak oil – Oct 3
Post Carbon newsletter
Looks like a plateau
India: world about to run out of oil?
Heinberg interview
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 3
GE develops hybrid lightbulb
Eco-mags go high gloss
West Coast Green – building is key
The language of green is universal…or is it?
In the battle to be green, the human factor works wonders
U.S. energy policy – Oct 3
Energy vacation (Bush energy bill)
Gas pump politics
California: barrels of $ fuel oil tax fight
Hedge funds and financial collapse – Oct 3
Amaranth Advisors lose billions on gas futures
The Wizards of Money: House lever-edge at the derivatives casino
Henry C.K. Liu on hedge funds showdown with banks
Jeff Vial: Financial wizardry & collapse
Maurice Strong: Bring it down on purpose
