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Jane Sutton The United States is gearing up to build a new generation of nuclear power plants but will probably have to import many of the component parts for them, the nation’s top nuclear regulator said on Tuesday.
UK: The humble bicycle has won a national survey of people’s favourite inventions conducted by the BBC.
Beginning in the mid-1980s, Greenpeace, and much of the environmental movement, made a sharp turn to the political left and began adopting extreme agendas that abandoned science and logic in favour of emotion and sensationalism.
New Zealanders will pay an extra NZ$2.90 (£1.11) a week for electricity, petrol and gas when the country becomes the first in the world to introduce a carbon tax to address global warming.
Rep. Roscoe Bartlett discusses his special order speeches about Peak Oil to the US Congress and how the public has responded to them. Transcript now available.
Now that everyone agrees oil production is in decline, what’s next?
Maybe Iran does need nuclear / NZ Maori Party recognizes Peak Oil / New Yorker has more on climate change / Helen Caldicott isn’t budging on nuclear / Scotland ministers want super powers for new projects / Rich nations worried about oil supplies (news?) / US tones down Venezuela rhetoric / Story of energy = story of civilization / Cities lead way on climate change / Human taxi-tricycles in Germany
More than 16 per cent of the European Union’s land is affected by soil degradation, but in the accession countries more than a third is affected, according to the first Soil Atlas of Europe, published last week.
Onward soldiers! The War on Nature is nearly won!
We are already living on an overloaded world. Our future will be a product of that fact; that fact is a product of our past. Our first order of business, then, is to make clear to ourselves how we got where we are and why our present situation entails a certain kind of future. [Chapter 2 from William Catton’s classic book Overshoot]
Congressman Bartlett’s third Special Order Speech, originally scheduled for April 27, was broadcast live on C-SPAN tonight, Tues May 3.
CNN on PO: don’t panic / King Fahd of Saudi Arabia on deathbed? / Iraq’s oil output lagging / State oil companies are in the driver’s seat / US nuclear industry hesitant / Another solution to oil shortages: the ocean depths / New e-journal on sustainability with E.O Wilson / What is New Urbanism? / Restoring old bikes – a labor of love / A life devoted to peaches / Interview with Green Car blogger
