Energy flashpoints – Oct 25
Impact of rising oil prices on Asia’s poor
Albania faces deepening energy crisis
Nepal: petro price hike sparks protests
Staff
Transport – Oct 25
Great Lakes shrink, and cargo carriers face losses
Flexcar can’t get around tax on rental cars
Let’s sing the praises of streetcars
What “bike friendly” looks like
Technology – Oct 25
Lime is a much greener option than cement
Could electricity grid become a type of Internet?
GE hopes to cut mercury in “green” light bulbs
Wildfires and climate – Oct 25
Wildfires – what to do
Reporters’ resources on wildfires
Fires in keeping with climate predictions
Climate change: Age of mega-fires
Global warming link to natural disasters
Mother nature’s revenge against human development
A taste of what’s to come
California’s age of megafires
Where is Alberta? Why should you care?
Can it really be true that the Canadian petroleum industry is almost in crisis with oil at $90 per barrel? Americans in particular should understand the critical economic issues now facing Canada’s petroleum industry.
Climate policy – Oct 25
UK’s new climate change tsar
White House edits CDC climate testimony
The next French revolution: Sarkozy’s plans for a green future
Steinmeier: climate change growing threat to peace
Climate – Oct 25
IPCC climate guru Steve Running
Hansen: drought, flooding threaten Texas
Climate change will hurt New Mexico water supply
Warming could wipe out half of all species
Greenland’s ice sheet melts as temperatures rise
Expert: Health risks rise as Earth warms
United States – Oct 25
Texas senator protects oil company tax breaks by blocking House-Senate energy conference
Saudi Arabia holds key to oil and dollar link
Pace of coal-power boom slackens
Getting more power out of using less
Why Illinois should host DOE’s FutureGen project
Limits – Oct 25
UN report: Unsustainable development ‘puts humanity at risk’
Should scientists embrace economic growth?
The implications of resource limitations
Can Earth’s plants keep up with us?
Financial monsters
Food & agriculture – Oct 24
Rising prices may herald the first global food shortage since the 1970s
Grain price hikes set to continue
Wheat rises for 4th day as importers seek supplies
Pricier grain costs Africans dear
Investor Jim Rogers shifts assets to Yuan and agriculture
China turns to dry land rice as water crisis looms
Australian drought pushes up price of beer
The age of salvage societies
The Archdruid Report‘s exploration of possible societies of the deindustrial future moves from the scarcity industrialism of the near future to the salvage societies further out, when the natural resources that power industrialism have been exhausted but the embodied energy in the material legacies of the industrial world become a major resource.
Peak oil – Oct 24
Skrewbowski interview: 1200 days to peak oil
Case Western study: oil experts agree on 2010 peak oil
Chevron CTO says peak oil won’t be a disaster
Posters of peak oil future now online from Dynamic Cities
Report: ‘World at peak oil output’
Peak oil or peak emissions?
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