Food & agriculture – June 4
Its not just about food miles
Farming in the city
How to save cooking energy
Principle 18: Sustainable food
Staff
On Robert S. McElvaine’s “The Great Depression”
“This book reveals very poignantly what has been lost in American culture.”
Oil Industry – June 3
API blogger conference call on hurricane preparedness
GAO: US gives oil firms good deals
U.S. refineries are unable to meet surge in demand
Baghdad Burns, Calgary Booms
Exxon Mobil could get an earful
Communication – Jun 3
A Note to Writers: Choose Your Voice and Your Media Carefully
Communication Tools: Make Them Simple and Ubiquitous or They Won’t Be Used
Not everyone’s a Feynmann
Peak Oil – Jun 3
Peak oil debate in oil industry journal
No More Gushers for ExxonMobil
Earth’s natural wealth: an audit
Denial II – Why we deny our Energy Condition
Peak Oil on EurActiv
Road to nowhere?
Below are comments I presented before my local transportation planning agency concerning its 2030 plan [in which I question the assumption that liquid fuels will remain abundant and cheap]. I hope these comments will provide some ideas for those who want to comment on plans in their own locales.
Climate – June 3
China to confront climate change, defend growth
Self-interest will do more to cut carbon emissions than all the low-energy light bulbs in the world
Bush’s trade barriers to climate success
Emissions plan hurts households, but not big polluters in Australia plan
Hero or villain? A carbon critic relies on coal
Nature: No more hot air
Andrew Revkin: Global meltdown
A few good (oil) men
It is quite possible that if gas pains increase we will see Big Oil CEO’s dragged into the Senate to answer the same inane questions. One can only hope it will play out as it did in the movie A Few Good Men.
Biofuels – June 2
Will milk become America’s new oil?
As pork prices soar, Chinese put brakes on corn for ethanol
Cargill chief warning on biofuels boom
Depletion, racism and paving the road to hell
A while back a gentleman named Harvey Winston sent me an email, trying to explain why it is that the peak oil and climate change movements are as lily white as they are.
Bush climate plan
Action plan or stalling tactic?
Der Spiegel: The emperor’s green clothes
Bush climate plan is met with suspicion
Bush’s climate-change feint
Bush’s emission plan ‘a delaying tactic’
Climate – June 1
UN: Climate making forest fires bigger
Earth nears tipping point on climate change
I was on the global warming gravy train
G-8 to take up climate change
Carbon credits are ‘wrong’ says Benn
