Deep thought – Nov 6
Hitting the nail on the head with the hammer…of fear
Film Review- What a Way to Go
The switch has been flipped
Are you on the rebound? (Jevons effect)
Staff
Are we serious yet? – Nov 6
Sustainable Sweden? Maybe not
Walk! Cycle! Minister tells French
Iran oil minister urges reducing gas use
Coal – Nov 6
Gore’s nightmare: Europe pays to ship U.S. coal
A coal state vies to share in global boom
Food & fuel – Nov 6
King Corn – ‘delightful documentary’
Monbiot: Western appetite for biofuels is causing starvation
Biofuel boom: greenwashing and crimes against humanity
Peak Oil – Nov 6
Perryman: psychological impact of $100 oil
Oil production struggles to keep up
Telling the whole truth about oil
In a private meeting with Matt Simmons
Oil is king – but for how much longer?
Peak oil comic: Luz, Girl of the Knowing
Where EOR succeeds and where it does not
Energy and environment round-up
ODAC news
Climate – Nov 6
Effects of climate change in 50 years
Bill Clinton’s Seattle climate speech
Insurers role in fighting global warming
Hoping for a new New Deal
Is it realistic for peak oilers to look to the New Deal as a model of how the US political system could respond to the crisis? A historian of the New Deal is afraid not.
How to be a good source of environmental (or peak oil) news
No more complaints about the media! Read this so you’ll be ready when a reporter calls. Or if you want to write better articles.
Climate & water – Nov 5
Tibetans wake up to nosebleeds in super-dry autumn (‘heating up faster than anywhere else’)
Dry weather forcing bobcats into Las Vegas
Farewell to “flush and forget”
Acidified waters could prompt mass shellfish dissolution
Out West, a falling lake lowers all boats
With U.S. water worries, eyes are on the Great Lakes
Waste and re-use – Nov 5
Bottled water’s environmental backlash
Rain barrels and rain runoff
Buddhist dumpster diving
The plastic fantastic recycling trap
Cities – Nov 5
Mayors, looking to cities’ future, are told it must be colored green
U.S. mayors find it’s not easy to be green
Bloomberg and Clinton at mayors conference
Ken Livingstone on climate change
Review: Renewable City
United States – Nov 5
Clinton’s climate and energy plan: strengths and weaknesses
The green gap
Bingaman seeks response to oil royalty decision ($60 billion for oil companies)
