Coal – July 27
China burns 18% more thermal coal in Jan-June
Largest coal gasification project in the U.S.
Dogging Big Coal (protest)
Coal reserves & resources- a gentle cough
Staff
Renewables – July 27
Robert Rapier: The future is solar
Is IBM going solar?
Biogenic methane?
Biofuels – July 27
The unintended consequences of the ethanol quick fix
Struggles between Big Oil, ethanol industry
A dark side to the ethanol boom?
Food & agriculture – July 27
Huge U.S. farm bill offers more of same for agribusiness
Oregon studies high failure rate of farmer’s markets
CSM on Community Supported Agriculture
Fermenting revolution (beer)
More on CSAs
Dysfunction – July 27
Four times as many children prescribed antidepressants versus a decade ago
Obesity spreads in social circles as trends do
Pollution-cholesterol link to heart disease
Electricity shortage threatens Macau gambling
Globalisation backlash in rich nations
Energy producers – July 26
New insights on the Soviet Union’s collapse (Grain and Oil)
Belarus: Preparing for tougher times
Political clashes shake Venezuela’s strained oil industry
Venezuela asset seizures: ConocoPhillips profit drops
Transport – July 26
Bicycle shame
Make your mark and ground the growth of aviation (Heathrow)
Carbon cost of building and operating light rail
On the rails to nowhere (Sydney rail)
Understanding the demographic transition
A shift in world population into a roughly steady state is occurring right now. How it works, what causes it, and what we can do to encourage it.
A failure of mimesis
Are there lessons for the peak oil movement in the cultural schism that has opened up in American society?
More peak oil – July 26
UK energy security
Canada TOD Round-Up
The world at $100 a barrel – peak oil?
Council on Foreign Relations: Reading oil’s tea leaves
Science: Even oil optimists expect energy demand to outstrip supply
Canada energy round-up
Geopolitics and oil – July 26
Falling dollar puts pressure on Opec
Ed Koch:
Is there a viable solution to our OPEC dilemma?
Russia and France play the energy game
If Iran provokes an energy crisis: modeling the problem in a war game
Science, food, survival – July 26
Ozone hampering plants’ absorption of CO2
Meat production ‘beefs up emissions’
Reviews: Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
