Climate policy – Feb 18
Investor group unveils climate blacklist
EU energy ministers can’t agree on target
Politicians sign new climate pact
Green agenda profitable: B.C. Premier
B.C.’s green plan endorsed by top climate scientist
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Climate – Feb 18
Vanishing glaciers offer clear evidence: scientists
Scientists sound alarm over melting Antarctic ice sheets
Oregon: floods, fire, rain predicted
Climate change and Oregon’s forests
Rising sea levels present China with ‘unimaginable challenges’
AAAS president urges swift action to build a sustainable future
“After four decades of studying these issues, I’ve concluded that energy is the core of the environment problem, environment is the core of the energy problem, and resolving the energy-economy-environment dilemma is the core of the problem of sustainable well-being for industrial & developing countries alike.”
Dysfunction – Feb 18
Arctic melting, revealing new sources of oil and gas
NASA climatologist on suppression of science: 5 years from now, we’ll know less
UNICEF: U.S., British children worst off in industrialized world
Court overturns 22-year sentence for SUV fire
Virgin, the dynamo, and the prize
There are two big problems with the Earth Challenge prize. First, and most important, it sends the wrong message to those who are just waking up to the true threat of climate change: it says we can solve this problem by inventing the right techno-fix. …The truth is that we already have all the technology that we need to save ourselves.
Energy demand – Feb 18
In energy electricity conservation, California sees the light
Net uses 1+ percent of US electricity
US servers use more electricity than color TVs
Internet claims role in fighting global warming
Peak Oil – Feb 17
It’s CERA Week — Houston, we have a problem
Global Warming: It’s All About Energy
Oil crisis constant concern
Housing – Feb 17
Another high-risk lender goes under
Housing Sales Drop in 40 States
Australian dream just a recession away
Biofuels – Feb 17
The real problem with corn-based ethanol
For Ethanol, the Future Is Now
British Millers Worried by Biofuel Subsidy
Biofuel demand unsustainable?
Confectioners questions EU biofuel policy
Community – Feb 17
Smaller Footprints, Cooler Stuff and More Cash
Relearning how to live as voluntary peasants
Escape from America
Coal – Feb 17
U.N. OKs CO2 injection into ocean floor
Coal can’t be clean – Flannery
Montana must turn coal from black to ‘green’
Rival firms dispute coal gasification
US military oil pains
The US Department of Defence is the single largest oil consumer in the world, and while cost has driven some savings, progress is limited.
