United States – Nov 29
Negotiators close in on energy measure
Candidates offer different views on energy
How not to make an energy policy
In Texas, climate creeping onto agenda
Staff
The dollar – Nov 29
Economist: Gulf countries rethink currency pact with the dollar
Jerome a Paris: Concern-trolling the euro
Ecuador’s Correa pushing OPEC to switch to stronger currency
Facing up to the falling dollar
Media – Nov 29
Society of Environmental Journalists: Guide to information and disinformation about climate change
Cold Facts: good climate documentary waffles
News reporting faces web challenge, warns New York Times editor
The newspaper in the days of digital anarchy
Food & agriculture – Nov 28
Studies: Is organic better? It depends
Vienna Vegetable Orchestra
Backyard gardens shelter Europe’s orphan seeds
Australian farmer: Wave of costs arriving to a farm near you
Biofuels – Nov 28
WSJ: Ethanol craze cools as doubts multiply
Are we backing the wrong fix for global warming?
Corn ethanol and the Great Dust Bowl
Fuel quest may create food crisis
Nuclear – Nov 28
China deal gives lift to revival of fission
Nuclear industry may be running out of steam
OSU prof talks up tiny nuclear plants
Nuke to the future – size of a hot tub
Renewables – Nov 28
Google hopes to undercut coal with cheap, renewable energy
Roadside solar panels new theft target
As oil soars, many turn to renewables
Interview: head of Wind Association
Coal – Nov 28
Indiana OKs coal plant that can fight carbon
Environmentalism and the future of coal
Efficiency – Nov 28
LA Times: Small steps, big energy savings
Dim prospects that ‘energy efficient’ will pay off: CIBC
‘Beer fridges’ present a gassy problem
Smart appliances learning to save power grid
Bringing back the clothesline
EnergyJoule power use monitor
The rich opt out
Questioning peak oil economic assumptions
Peak oil proponents assume a simple model of the relation between oil supply or price shocks and economic performance. Economists have called into question some aspects of that model.
Bite of high oil prices only beginning
What’s in store for us after the peak? A decline in oil supply, and even higher oil prices. I see three possible roads to higher oil prices.
Outlook for fuel reserves
Long and detailed analysis of the complete fossil fuel cycle by Dr. M. K. Hubbert (1976). Full text available as a PDF. Previously unavailable.
