Energy industry – Oct 28
Russia turning Big Oil into employees
China coal boom attracts US investors, business
Arctic oil, gas offer challenge, potential
Staff
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 27
Guardian launches sustainability website
Bill Joy: Better green tech than Internet
City Repair- permaculture for urban spaces
Israeli cities cut energy use
Energy & nation – Oct 27
China’s green energy gap
ConocoPhillips CEO: U.S needs decisive energy policy
Rescuers comb Gulf for survivors after Mexican oil rig collision
Geopolitics – Oct 27
Endgame for Iraqi oil?
How secure are Middle East oil supplies?
Stan Goff’s Energy War now online
Re-visiting “Petrodollar Warfare”
New edition of H.T. Odum’s classic
This volume is a major modernization of Odum’s classic work on the significance of power and its role in society, bringing his approach and insight to a whole new generation of students and scholars. (Odum is an intellectual godfather to the peak oil and sustainability movements.)
Iran worries and oil prices – Oct 26
Strike on Iran would roil oil markets
Iran – tension and pressure up again
Oil rises to record over $92 after U.S. says Iran backs terror
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Hopeful – Oct 26
Climate change, despair and empowerment
Oakland’s green jobs corps
“Carbon neutral” in business-schools
Food & agriculture – Oct 26
‘Food miles’ soared by 31% in a year, UK study reveals
Soil Association fudges on air freighted food
Organic air-freight food to be stripped of status
The case of the disappearing bees
Climate – Oct 26
White House defends ‘health benefits’ of climate change
Climate change seen hurting poor regions
Rolling Stone on the prophet of climate change: James Lovelock
Canada – Oct 26
Brave B.C. talks true carbon tax
Second inconvenient truth: greenhouse gases must be taxed
Alberta royalty grab stuns oil industry
Is Alberta out of step with the world? (no)
Rabaska: une étude démolit l’argument écologique (problems of energy substitution in a free market)
Peak oil: what to do? – Oct 26
USA 2034: A look back
UK energy security
Talks by Holmgren, Skeffington and Hall
Resource depletion, persuasion and the ongoing world meme
ODAC News
United States – Oct 25
Texas senator protects oil company tax breaks by blocking House-Senate energy conference
Saudi Arabia holds key to oil and dollar link
Pace of coal-power boom slackens
Getting more power out of using less
Why Illinois should host DOE’s FutureGen project
