Drill baby drill — a reality check
How realistic is it to believe that opening all of America to oil exploration and development will cause a surge in production?
Roger Blanchard
Media & persuasion – Dec 28
Web overtakes newspapers as source of news in US survey
How to blog
Julian Darley a-blog
Ecofont saves ink
Renewables & efficiency – Dec 27
Solar meets polar as winter curbs clean energy
Etopia News – climate change and renewables
Recycled energy: green, underused
United States – Dec 27
NY Times on the gas tax
Braddock, Pennsylvania: Out of the furnace and into the fire
‘The nurses’ birthed a better place at Stinking Creek
Food & agriculture – Dec 27
A food agenda for Obama
It was a gas (Haber-Bosch process for fertilizers)
Fresh eggs, finances and fun: families flock to keep hens
Energy industry – Dec 26
Groups soliciting funds to buy BLM leases (student disrupts auction)
Coal front group sets up dirty ‘blogger brigade’
Korea oil bunker
Economics – Dec 26
Japan should scrap U.S. debt; dollar may plummet, Mikuni says
How to keep on financing wind farms when banks have no money left
Byron King: Falling prices and scarce energy
Transport – Dec 26
Rail takes back seat as states target Obama stimulus for roads
Need a ride? Check your iPhone
Cheap seats, danger meet on illegal Manila trolleys
Rail efficiencies (much more is possible)
A Green New Deal? – Dec 26
‘Green’ jobs compete for stimulus aid
Krugman: Barack be good
A green stimulus for the people
The coming capitalist consensus: “Global Social Democracy”
History’s arrow
Most contemporary thought about the future relies consciously or unconsciously on the belief that history has a direction that the future will inevitably follow. Does this “historicist” outlook offer useful insights, or are those who cling to such notions of inevitability fooling themselves?
The peak oil crisis: Confusion in the markets
If you don’t understand what is going on with the price of gasoline and demand for the world’s oil supply, then join the club.
Biofuels – Dec 24
Fill ‘er up with human fat
Food, fuel and fiber? The challenge of using the earth to grow energy
Obama buys the biofuel hype
New Michigan law allows animal carcasses to be used to make energy
