Solutions and Sustainability Headlines – Nov 15
Real energy savers don’t wear cardigans. or do they? / Speed limit crackdown to cut emissions / Recycling obsolete tower blocks
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Other energy – Nov 14
UK DTI Minister backs nuclear new-build / Middle East takes advantage of refining slack / Clean energy opportunities from UK climate change Bill / Investment in deepwater projects soars / Improved economics of biodiesel? / Next fuel source could be designer organisms / ‘Oil firms oppose biofuel made from rye’ / Olympic Dam shows hot rocks potential
Environment – Nov 14
Water vapour builds the heat in Europe / Fish numbers plummet in warming Pacific / We need to stop eating seafood: Sylvia Earle / US decking and the clearing of the Amazon rainforest / Overpopulation: Partying as the iceberg looms
Kuwait’s biggest field starts to run out of oil
It was an incredible revelation last week that the second largest oil field in the world is exhausted and past its peak output. Yet that is what the Kuwait Oil Company revealed about its Burgan field.
Solutions & sustainability – Nov 13
The greening of China /
A muckraker conservationist looks back /
Should we switch to horses? /
Hopedance special issue on local food production /
After the crash: A blueprint for a community-based economy
Peak oil – Nov 13
Detailed report on ASPO-USA Denver conference (Fri) /
Whipple on PO /
Heinberg at Sebastopol town hall meeting /
Interview with Alan Falleri, Willits city planner /
Rep. Bartlett says country is addicted to oil /
Kuwait’s Burgan oil field, world’s 2nd largest, is `exhausted’
Environment – Nov 13
UK ‘losing authority’ on global warming as emissions rise /
Water vapor feedback is rapidly warming Europe /
Global warming moved plants northward /
Japan backs climate pacts, struggles to meet targets /
Washington state climate conference – getting beyond inertia
Politics & economics – Nov 13
Future of energy in Rockies /
Higher fuel costs coming /
Sudan at the head of a Chinese global sweep to mop up world’s oil resources /
Azerbaijan: oil billions and poverty /
Saudi oil expansion plan ‘may face delay’ /
Trans-Afghan gas pipeline project likely in 2006
US energy policy – Nov 13
The petroleum bomb by George P. Shultz and R. James Woolsey /
Let’s hurry on energy policy or the Right will get there first /
Krauthammer: U.S. not serious about oil independence and pays price /
Republicans drop effort to end ban on offshore drilling /
So Iraq was about the oil
Getting there from here
Report from the front lines of the struggle against excess and consumerism.
Tribute to Rep. Roscoe Bartlett
Roscoe didn’t tell me anything I didn’t know, but he said it so well that I don’t mind admitting I was in tears by the time he stepped down amidst a standing ovation. So was Dave, just to prove I wasn’t the only girlie-man in the audience.
Other energy – Nov 12
UK buys into next generation of nuclear power /
New Internationalist issue on nuclear power /
Ethanol is the future for public transport /
The cultural roots of UK’s energy gap /
Green fuel plan ‘will destroy rainforests’ /
Will Canadian oil sands save the USA? /
Cleaning up coal: new, cleaner technologies /
Oil shale shows promise; towns have seen it before
