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Lindsey Grant With the judicious employment of the technologies we have learned – and with a bit of luck – we may be able to create a more harmonious balance with the rest of the biosphere, but only at substantially lower population levels and less consumptive habits.
The sorry state of British Energy?s operations were under-scored on Friday
when the company reported a bigger than expected £234m pre-tax loss for the
six months to the end of September.
AMONG the many hurdles to be overcome before we’re all driving fuel-cell cars with exhaust that is baby’s-breath-pure – superyacht purchase prices, an almost nonexistent refueling network and some public concern about the wisdom of carrying hydrogen pressurized at 10,000 pounds per square inch – is a more basic challenge: winter.
Almost overnight, South America has driven a historic global shift in food production that is turning the largely untapped frontier heartland of the continent into the world’s new breadbasket.
The phenomenon is likely to continue for a while, so here’s what it could mean for you — and how you can protect yourself from some of the effects.
From aggressive greenhouse-gas limits to new nuclear plants, independent group tries to bridge divisive issues.
Detailed Recommendations on Oil Security, Climate Change, Natural Gas, Nuclear Energy, and Other Key Topics the Result of 2 Years of Research and Consultation. (Press release for downloadable 128-page report.)
American action in Iraq must be at least considered as the choice of a military, geo-strategic, grab-the-oil policy by an administration of oil men very, very conscious of the building longer term problem of peak oil and the emerging awareness of how the oil endgame is a control of the Middle East problem.
Paul Ehrlich talks about his new book – One With Nineveh. He reminds us that agriculture began in a fertile land, around Nineveh, in what is now the Middle East, which is now desert.
…true energy independence is not about the borders that surround the oil, but the boardrooms that control it.
At at time when energy resource depletion is widely acknowledged, many housing developments continue in soon-to-be-disfunctional patterns. Ronald Cooke, author of Oil, Jihad and Destiny, writes that the development plan for Martis Valley in California is a really good example of this type of obsolete public policy.
Its largest find in Alberta area in nearly 20 years lifts hopes for more giant deposits.
