Stern Stern on climate change at Senate hearing
Climate report author Sir Nicholas Stern lays down the law at a U.S. Senate hearing: the costs of inaction on climate change will be far higher than the costs of acting today. No more excuses.
Richard Bell
Big Oil speaks – Feb 14
Shell president “shocked at how many people believe in peak oil”
Cheap oil to last, “doomsday” fears overblown says Maugeri of Eni SpA (Italian oil)
Chevron CEO calls for US to triple ethanol use
Exxon-Mobil’s Tillterson: focus on meeting oil/gas demand
Chevron CEO wants national regs for GHG
Climate policy – Feb 14
Global warming: Get used to it
Nature: Lifting the taboo on adaptation
Investors turn up heat over carbon emissions
Call for shareholder votes on climate change
Push for new climate treaty intensifies
Peak oil – Feb 14
Simmons: Oil has peaked, but where’s the data?
Fears for North Sea output grow
HOT Hot hot (climate and peak oil)
Biofuels – Feb 14
Ag economist: Ethanol’s growth and implications for grain producers
Brazil sees biofuel demand as unsustainable
Biofuels will make China, India more thirsty
RFA: Bush’s farm bill not adequate for cellulosic
Housing & urban design – Feb 14
American Dream, downsized
Wayne Co. foreclosure rate leads the nation (due to auto industry cuts)
Beyond Moscow, dachas make way for suburbia
Geopolitics – Feb 14
Al-Qaida urges strikes on U.S. oil sources
West adds to strains on Iran’s lifeline
Stan Goff: Persian peril redux
India on the front line in energy war
Food & agriculture – Feb 14
Agri-business exposed (Cargill)
Vandana Shiva’s address to UK Soil Association
Penn. group blasts corporate farming
Gas – Feb 14
Russia warns BP may lose Siberian gas licence
Evaluation of Russian natural gas resources
Activists shut down construction of LNG terminal
Environment – Feb 14
Mystery Ailment Strikes Honeybees
Dangerous fungus thrives on Canada’s West Coast
The Importance of Water
Deception on Plan Columbia spraying exposed
British Columbia goes green
Green changes sweeping British Columbia
Plan to make B.C. the continent’s greenest
Will be acid test for environmental concerns
New rules threaten proposed coal projects
Too timid a response (new)
Peak oil thoughts – Feb 14
Homer-Dixon interview: crash inevitable?
Chat with Dmitry Orlov
Post-petroleum stress disorder on the Archers
THE Progressive crises: global warming and PO
Hybrids, biofuels and other false idols
