Food & agriculture – Nov 2
Monty Don of BBC’s ‘Gardeners World’: Why local is best
Study: nitrogen fertilizers deplete soil organic carbon
Global warming and Oklahoma agriculture
Staff
Technology – Nov 2
“Scrubbing bubbles” made by bacteria may solve energy crisis
Power from the final frontier
The greening of Google
California to rule on fate of EVs
Energy policies – Nov 2
China hikes fuel prices amid shortages
Chinese reactions to oil price hikes
UK energy savings ‘miscalculated’ (Jevons Paradox)
Efficiency replaces conservation in energy saving policies
Renewables – Nov 2
Bill McKibben: What rhymes with waste-heat recovery?
Kenyan slum saves trees, cleans streets with big trash oven
How to build a local energy economy
Mammoth wind farm slated for S. Dakota
Viability of Antarctic windfarm
‘Wall of money’ set to flow into Asian renewable energy
Bicycles – Nov 2
Compact bike folds in 5-25 seconds
Portland is not so bike-friendly, but it could be – here’s how
Recycling with ‘Bill the Bike Man’
Total boss on why oil production will never top 100 mb/d
Christophe de Margerie has a reputation for forthright views and blunt speaking, but this week the chief executive of Total excelled himself by dismissing the IEA’s oil production forecasts as unrealistic, while coining an aphorism worthy of Donald Rumsfeld.
Bartlett talks to the House about peak oil
The indefatigable Congressman from Maryland gives another educatioinal talk to the House, touching on M. King Hubbert, energy bills before Congress and the Chinese response to peak oil.
Solutions & sustainability – Nov 2
50 things that will save the planet (better than the usual list)
Astyk: Acts of non-consumption and the riot for austerity
Open access to research funded by U.S
Geopolitical – Oct 31
Venezuela’s gas prices remain low, but political costs may be rising
Why did we invade Iraq anyway?
Iraq’s oil: the plot thickens
Energy industries – Oct 31
College graduates heading to careers in … the coal mines
Coal leaving a trail of environmental devastation
Oil shale may finally have its moment
Oil prices – Oct 31
Oil jumps $4 on Fed, supplies (now over $94)
The new math of oil
OPEC says pumping more won’t bring oil price down
Get used to $100 oil, OPEC warns
Higher oil prices blamed on peaking production
A Voice of America correspondent went to the ASPO-USA peak oil conference in Houston recently and filed this report. (text and video)
