Geopolitics – July 11
Why the U.S. won’t attack Iran
The latest oil shock
US will not hesitate to defend Israel, Rice warns Tehran
What fraction of America’s $4+ gallon gasoline is due to the war in Iraq?
The Afghan pipeline you don’t know about
Staff
United States & Canada – July 11
Lifting drilling ban wouldn’t do much for gas prices, report says
Public opinion on drilling and the environment
American life worth less today
President George Bush: ‘Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter’
EPA won’t act on emissions this year
Renewables & efficiency – July 11
Congress must pass renewable energy tax incentives
Swords into plowshares: Lockheed Martin’s work in efficiency sector (video and transcript
Jeremy Legget: A low carbon diet
‘Extreme Makeover’ family, NTUA dispute power credits
Ken Bossong at SEC on July 31, 2008 Congressional Green Expo
Biofuels – July 11
Guardian ‘publishes the biofuels report they didn’t want you to read’
Donald Mitchell, World Bank
Bad juice II: biofuels maybe not quite so bad, World Bank says
Rising food prices: policy options and World Bank response
Renewables – July 10
Decoding the world’s best Energy policies
Roundtable discussion: Outlook for renewable energy (podcast)
Ray Brady at BLM on “solar rights-of-way (video)
Housing & urban design – July 10
Putting down roots in the city
Environment, Attitudes, and Behavior
Foreclosures’ financial strains take toll on kids
Food & agriculture – July 10
Michael Pollan on what’s wrong with environmentalism
Can bovine burp research slow global warming?
Global fertilizer demand may rise 14% on higher food demand
Web – July 10
Has the internet killed the joys of sitting down with a good book?
Protect the web, says Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Getting ‘wiki’ with it?
Peak oil – July 10
Peak oil: it doesn’t translate into Kurdish
Pemex Cantarell output drops 34%
Why isn’t the price of gasoline even higher?
We’re not yet running on empty
Food preservation, food storage and the locavore
I knew the idea of local eating had penetrated when I quickly ran into a grocery store while visiting my Mom, and this older couple came up to me and asked “Honey, could you read where it says where the plums came from? We’re trying to eat local but neither of us brought our glasses.” If I can’t get in and out of a supermarket in 3 minutes without running into someone trying to eat local, I know we’ve gone mainstream.
Peak oil notes – July 10
A mid-week update on peak oil, including:
– Stockpiles & Prices
– China facing power shortages.
Peak oil and the Olduvai catastrophe: is there a link?
The Olduvai Theory is about the declining total world energy supplies and the catastrophic consequences. Peak Oil is a more confined thesis about oil supply declining due to the looming exhaustion of oil reserves in the ground. So Olduvai addresses all energy sources, but Peak Oil is only about one of the energy sources – oil.
In a recent article (Leigh, 2008), I failed to explain the Olduvai and Peak Oil relationship fully and clearly, and I would like to do so in this brief article. So what is the relationship between Olduvai and Peak Oil? Indeed, is there one at all?
