Energy industry – Aug 4
Alaska’s addiction (oil industry influence)
Oil firms’ buybacks pump up criticism
Peak oil and what it means to the petroleum industry
Growing risk: the payback (gas market)
Staff
Food & agriculture – Aug 4
Forget the farm bill: For now, local politics is the way to effect ag-policy change
As imports of foreign produce increase, California farmers lose out
Ag professor urges ‘sustainable’ solution, not biofuels
Oil & geopolitics – Aug 3
Review: Linda McQuaig’s It’s the Crude, Dude
Kazakhstan turns the screw on foreign investors
Good news from Baghdad at last: the oil law has stalled
United States – Aug 3
Kelpie Wilson: Paying the peak oil power bill
NY Times: An incomplete energy bill
US Army War College: America’s energy security policy: goals for 2025
Energy sect’y Bodman: Oil price ‘threatens US economy’
Solar – Aug 3
Too much energy is wasted by converting it
A solar oven saves energy
Thin film’s time in the sun
Memory and vision: The Apollo Alliance and eco-apartheid
Can the Apollo Alliance, which promotes “growth” on the basis of green jobs, meet the challenges of peak oil and climate change?
Deep thought – Aug 3
Harvard Business Review: Six rules for effective forecasting
The island of Naura- poster child for resource depletion
Focus on carbon ‘missing the point’
The terrifying prospect of a post-oil future: no more ready meals, traffic jams or lonely nights in front of TV
JM Greer’s fiction about the deindustrialzed future
Edwards, Obama, Richardson and Clinton on energy
Which of the major Democratic party candidates has the best energy platform? A comparison based on what I could find on their websites and some interviews.
The seductive message of Who Killed the Electric Car?
I find it very doubtful that we will all be able to sit behind the wheel our electric cars and wait for a green techno-utopia to emerge.
Climate: Asia awakes – Aug 2
“Asian Brown Cloud” speeds melt of Himalaya glaciers
Siberian forest fires due to climate change
Pakistan: uncontrolled population blamed for climate change
Green China and young China (1)
We [in China] are widely recognised as having achieved an economic miracle, but we have paid an enormous price. Now is the time for a fair and sustainable model of growth.
(Pan Yue is deputy director of China’s State Environmental Protection Administration)
Tensions around North Pole hydrocarbons raise the specter of new (bitter) Cold War.
The technological problems of drafting arctic oil and gas into human service have not even been solved, the ecological fallout of this course of action hardly addressed, but already huge sums of money are committed for grabbing control and potential revenues.
