Climate – Feb 1
Water troubles in the U.S. West may worsen
Peat bogs pelted with heather to slow CO2 emissions
Carbon embodied in international trade
Staff
Air travel – Feb 1
Can airlines find a cleaner way to fly?
NHL can’t really go green without axing jet fuel
New Zealand’s carbon neutral airport
UK flight tax to hit long-haul and heavy planes
United States – Feb 1
Military and climate spending compared
Climate, energy legislation after Bush’s SOTU
Low-income residents struggle with energy prices
Deep thought – Feb 1
Jamais Cascio: The big picture
Sharon Astyk on collapse: Let her go down
Carolyn Baker reviews William Kotke’s The Final Empire
Peak oil – Feb 1
Satellite o’er the desert (Saudi oil supply)
IEA refutes ‘peak oil’, points to lack of investment
Minnesota legislators to hear from Simmons
Rifkin: Europe could make the third industrial revolution’
Demand – Feb 1
Go to sleep early to save power – S.A. minister
New ‘green’ energy from dirty sources (efficiency)
Self-denial was made for me
Chinese on their environmentalism: ‘You buy our cheap goods. Don’t blame us’
Food & agriculture – Feb 1
The hedge fund manager who bought a farm
National Farmers Union: Realism needed on biofuels
Vibing on vertical farms
Coal – Feb 1
Coal prices could double again
U.S. scraps ambitious clean-coal power plant (FutureGen)
UK firm wants carbon freedom at new coal-fired plant
The limits to scenario planning
I was involved in one of those periodic discussions that spring up about The Limits To Growth recently and found myself wondering, not for the first time, if other people have read a completely different version of the book to the one I possess.
Trouble in the oil patch – Feb 1
Big Oil has trouble finding new fields
Western majors feel the squeeze
Shell feeds doubts about oil industry
Food & agriculture – Jan 31
Poor Haitians resort to eating dirt
Global warming will lead to crop losses
World Economic Forum report warns of food shortage
Up from dysfunction – Jan 31
Move it, you just might get younger
California to probe development of ‘green’ chemicals
From buses to blogs, a pathological individualism is poisoning public life
