Solar – Nov 12
The rise of solar: why the sun is shining on main street
Sharp expands solar cell output by factor of six
Sand Trap – silicon shortages
Jeff Vail on Energy Payback from Photovoltaics and
Investment in Complexity
Staff
Solar (2) – Nov 12
The Elf Queen, the sun and the Tower of Tomorrow
Silicon and sun (and sea sponges)
Cheap, superefficient solar
Climate – Nov 12
Growth in carbon emissions is ‘out of control’ /
News analysis: climate change /
War footing against global warming /
Shameful editorial from Le Monde
Global Warming: More Inconvenient Truths
When it comes to taking action on climate change, the focus always seems to be on what each of us can do personally. Perhaps you, too, are wondering what part business, industry and governments have to play?
Chinese now visiting peak oil sites?
I suspect that our site (peakoil.com), along with some others have been taken off the filtered site list in China’s firewall. This probably represents a change in policy for China. We welcome our Chinese visitors of course & hope to bring them into the conversation.
Attitude adjustment: Facing our ecological predicament
The approach which is hardest to sell seems like the safest. It relies on the concrete, concerted actions of people everywhere doing things that require no miracles of technology, no rosy assumptions about the future availability of critical resources, and only limited faith in the marketplace. It is an approach that one can get started on today without the enactment of any big government program.
Democrat plans for energy
With the Democrats in control of Congress, what’s in store for energy policy? The Oil Drum summarizes the plans of Democrats in the Senate and the House.
Russia – Nov 11
Confidence in Russian deliveries of energy /
Winter energy crunch looming for Russia
Water & health – Nov 11
A drop-sized way to bring clean water to a thirsty world /
Toilets underused to fight disease: U.N. study /
China – threat of 60 million obese citizens
Solutions & sustainability – Nov 11
Relocalize Network Newsletter for November /
One billion trees – their ecological services /
A trip to the Agroforestry Research Trust’s forest garden
Peak oil – Nov 11
The interesting demographics of peakoil.com /
Peak oil activism that denies petrcocollapse
Climate update – Nov 10
Boulder approves city-wide carbon tax /
Kenya’s Maasai plead for help against global warming /
The moral climate – climate coverage changes from science to economics to ethics /
IPCC scientists attacked by deniers /
Canadians’ use of cars, trucks drives up greenhouse gases
