Climate – Apr 13
Panel: US faces change as climate warms
Ozone hole leaks and other tales
BBC:
Climate change around the world
CSM: One-stopping shopping for global warming news
Staff
Food & agriculture – Apr 13
The self-sufficient gourmand (on 1/3 acre)
Urban farming thrives in Cuba
WorldChanging on apiculture
Consuming for good – Apr 13
Stephen Colbert vs. No Impact Man
Sharon Astyk: Production, consumption and Amish economics
Greener planet begins under the kitchen sink
British brides say “I do” to green weddings
E-waste win points way
Peak Soil: Why cellulosic ethanol, biofuels are unsustainable and a threat to America
Biofuels are not sustainable or renewable. Why would we destroy our topsoil, increase global warming, deplete and pollute groundwater, destroy fisheries, and use more energy than what’s gained to make ethanol?
(Detailed analysis)
Climate Change and Peak Oil: An Integrated Policy Response for Australia
Integrated policy responses are required for the twin challenges of Peak Oil and Climate Change. Former oil, gas and coal industry executive Ian Dunlop here introduces a plan built around Contraction & Convergence and Tradeable Energy Quotas.
Oil-producing countries – Apr 12
Doha: talking about an OPEC for gas
Russia’s oil and gas reserves shrinking
Chavez guarantees Latin American energy supply for 100 years
Chávez plays the oil card
Getting the word out – Apr 12
1,000+ climate rallies planned this weekend
This April … Red + Blue go green
WorldChanging interviews McKibben
What’s so funny? (profile of Grist)
Cllimate policy – Apr 12
Climate censorship- the deniers dish it out
A tale of three interviews
Labor confronts global warming
Diesel’s adverts call for a boycott
ConocoPhillips, the anti-Exxon, supports regulation of GHG emissions
Geo-politics – Apr 12
The Saudi paradox
Russian trans-Balkan pipeline to skirt Turkey
Russian general says U.S. continues preparations for military action against Iran
Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84
American writer and humorist Kurt Vonnegut has died at age 84. About energy he wrote, “We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.”
Renewables – Apr 12
Thermal depolymerization: the next big thing
US releases National Renewable Fuel Standard
Sustainable energy has powerful future
Tom Whipple: Decentralized Power
Geodynamics says it has ‘hottest rocks on earth’
Transport – Apr 12
Schwarzenegger to Michigan: Get off your butt
Cautious approval for plan to end private ownership of rail in Scotland
Air travel poses major threat to biodiversity, say scientists
NY Auto Show – ‘Green Cars’
Passenger trains returning to S. Montana?
Transport surging, damaging climate
