Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Kurt Cobb Given the uncertainties, the costs and the alternatives available to us–conservation, efficiency, wind and solar–does it make sense to build a hugely expensive sequestration infrastructure that will essentially be a giant subsidy for the coal industry?
How to inspire and co-ordinate local engagement in peak oil and relocalisation planning.
As peak oil and other aspects of the predicament of industrial society begin pushing it down the slope toward catabolic collapse, sorting out what can be saved from what must be jettisoned will become a crucial task. Thinking about the options now could give us a head start.
Daily output at Mexico’s biggest oil field tumbled by half a million barrels last year, according to figures released Friday by the Mexican government.
Ethanol after the State of the Union
The Sum of All Ears: Corn Cop-Out
Loser: Corn-o-copia
Major biodiesel project on hold
NZ: Switch to biofuels moves closer to reality
No technical limitation to wind power penetration
RE mandate could save EU $96 bln a year
Tech Barons Take on US Energy Policy
Japan hastens slowly
The tipping point of global oil production will be accompanied by a dire energy shock, and we will have to redefine the concept of farming
Interview with the long-time climate change journalist (and now advocate):
“…it’s changing so fast that you just don’t know what’s going to work. I really do believe that rapid social change can happen as unexpectedly as rapid climate change. …you’ve got thousands of groups all over the country working like earthworms on this issue, what is it going to take to catalyze a real movement that comes up out of that?”
Parking hike for high polluters
Paris to roll out free bicycles
NYT: A faith-based fuel initiative
Scientists say White House pressured them
UN agency asks for a climate summit
Cap & trade – what US can learn from Europe
Millions to go hungry, waterless: report
World scientists near consensus on warming
Why some ideas stick and others don’t
Viridian Greens: “We are winning!”
Hand-made vacation
U.S. consumers, companies feeling green
Bush directive increases sway on regulation
The long road to energy independence
Reporters discuss President’s energy plans
Monbiot: Don’t be fooled by Bush’s defection: his cures are another form of denial
