Technology – Oct 2
Is Windows an energy hog?
A commodity no more: indium tin oxide for LCDs
The Economist on biomimicry
Staff
Food & agriculture – Oct 2
Scientists making Brazil’s savannah bloom
Peak forestry in Tasmania?
Soil Matters CSA / nutritionist Marion Nestle
Renewables – Oct 2
Rapier reviews Patzek’s paper on long-range energy strategies (biofuels and demand reduction)
Going solar in Japan
Power harnessed one step at a time (floors that generate electricity)
Electricity demand – Oct 2
New math for utilities: sell less, make more
Phoenix rates will rise
L.A. County calling for lights-out hour
‘Smart’ meters coming to B.C.
Energy industry – Oct 2
Recasting Big Oil’s battered image
Tough new rule may stop wells flaring in BC
Review: Stupid to the Last Drop (Alberta tar sands)
Deep thought – Oct 2
Nate Hagens at ASPO-6
Vandana Shiva: How to address humanity’s global crises?
Sharon Astyk:
Collateral damage
11th Hour offers solutions to inconvenient truths
Transport – Oct 2
We paved paradise (parking lots)
Good and bad news on US fuel-economy trends
Hauliers threaten blockades as Brown’s 3 tax rises bring petrol to £1 a litre
Economics – Oct 2
Finance Round-ups from TOD: Canada
A Dollar beyond the eighties
Hold onto your wallet
Export Land Model (ELM) goes mainstream
For years, Jeffrey J. Brown has been arguing that oil-exporting countries will be consuming more oil, leaving less oil to export. Now a mainstream economist has picked up the idea:
Jeff Rubin and the Export Land Model
Declining net oil exports- temporary decline or long term trend?
America’s top oil suppliers tightening taps on exports
OPEC’s growing call on itself
Solutions & sustainabiity – Oct 1
Lifestyle changes prepare Boulder for energy changes
Shut up about the deckchairs! (ASPO and eco-villages)
Gaviotas: The village that could save the planet
Families bond over green choices
Transforming a community through local business
Peak oil – Oct 1
Economic impact of peak oil
Kunstler: Two clues for the clueless
How economy could survive oil at $100/barrel
Costly fuel is never far from a match (price rises = turmoil)
ASPO’S Steve Andrews: online PO lecture Tuesday
Buckee of Talisman “believes in peak oil theory”
College sophomore discovers peak oil
PO 10-20 years away, claims WEC
ODAC News
Food & agriculture – Oct 1
Let the East bloom again
As prices soar, U.S. food aid buys less
Country-of-origin stickers coming
The Everyman who exposed tainted toothpaste
