U.S. – Feb 6
Energy efficiency suffers in budget shuffle
The Economist: Green America
CEOs, retired generals push to curb oil reliance
Staff
Peak oil – Feb 6
Lester Brown interview (“PO may be imminent”)
Australia oil supply report to be released
“The End of Oil” – Link TV special Feb 9, 10
Peak oilers’ error
Bartlett on CNN at 5:30 ET Feb 6
DVDs of the Boston Peak Oil Conference
Biofuels – Feb 6
US News & World Rpt: Is ethanol the answer?
Indonesia: Massive biofuel program to go ahead despite concerns
NYT: The price of corn
Kudzu a potential fuel source
Food industry wants balanced biofuel policy
Bus Week: Food vs fuel
Climate – Feb 6
IPCC scientist Susan Solomon
WorldChanging:
Thoughts on climate
Veteran reporter: Doubt gives way to certainty
Turkey prepares action plan on climate change
Emissions of key greenhouse gas stabilise (methane)
Transport – Feb 6
For Teenagers, the Car Is the Danger Zone
Subdivisions in remote areas increase cost county services
China expands ship-rail transport
Why Don’t You Walk More?
The agenda restated
Quit wishing and start doing. The best way to feel hopeful about the future is to get off your ass and demonstrate to yourself that you are a capable, competent individual resolutely able to face new circumstances.
One of Kunstler’s best. -Ed
Peter Russell on life after oil, change and consciousness.
We’re going to be in completely new situations which we’ve never encountered before and the ways of the past are not really appropriate.
Five axioms of sustainability
If leaders do not begin to abide by these axioms, society as a whole, or some aspects of it, will assuredly collapse.
Geopolitics – Feb 5
The fortunate fifth
Susan George on JM Keynes International Clearing Union
Greek Cyprus and Turkey oil conflict grows
Dilip Hiro’s “Blood of the Earth” – battle for the world’s vanishing oil resources
Ahmadinejad held hostage to bazaar politics
Oil industry – Feb 5
Oil workers targeted as Nigeria violence grows
Peru’s Amazon oil deals denounced
Mixing oil and water
Oil Search, Exxon drop Papua New Guinea gas gipeline
Local climate change – Feb 5
Switzerland: Global warming and tourism
Grim global warming prognosis for Western US
Queensland to drink waste water
Vietnam highly vulnerable to climate change
Energy conservation – Feb 5
Chavez takes up energy conservation
Turkey: It’s “you” who will save the world
War and skis
Arabs urged to use energy judiciously
No quick fix to Eskom energy crisis
