Transport – Sept 20
American commutes get longer
Investment in cycling could save £520m
‘Ban cars in London’ to cut CO2
China to hold first-ever ‘no car day’
China steel mills may face freight premium
Zimbabwe: Minister says walk to save fuel
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Electricity consumption – Sept 20
The right to dry (clothesline liberation)
Household energy use rising
Power prices set to surge
Energy efficient appliances should be made compulsory, says UN expert
Energy industry – Sept 20
Shell exec: Coherent energy policy needed
Oil industry flares $40 billion a year in gas
Chevron offers online energy game
Climate & extinction – Sept 20
Climate Change Brings Risk of More Extinctions
Vultures vanishing – even scavengers face extinction
Climate policy – Sept 20
Grim outlook for poor countries in climate report
Judge denies California’s bid for damages from carmakers
Australian Age urges Contraction and Convergence (C&C) after APEC
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 20
“What a Way to Go” – Meet the filmmakers
Kunstler novel coming next year
Peak oil, Transition Towns and resilience building.
Geopolitics – Sept 20
Big oil’s waiting game over Iraq’s reserves
After Iraq, no one should bank on cheap oil
Greenspan: Euro gains as reserve choice
Interview with Chris Cook, inventor of the Iran oil bourse
Biofuels – Sept 20
NY Times: The high costs of ethanol
The myths of biofuels (new video)
OECD report: the high costs of biofuels
Swiss report on biofuels
Unexpected details – Sept 20
When eco-keener meets enviro-slacker (relationships)
How green issues are changing our language
Making garbage visible in all its stinky glory
High gas prices could make you skinnier
Peak oil – Sept 20
Senior oilman Gareth Roberts on peak oil
T. Boone Pickens declines to predict oil prices
Kurt Cobb: The trouble with predictions
NPC presents “Hard Truth” study to California Energy Commission
United Kingdom – Sept 20
Interview with Sir John Houghton (IPCC 1988-2002) on climate policy
UK green policies: how the Lib Dems compare
Labour starts renewable energy drive to win back climate initiative
Energy and nation – Sept 20
Interview: Top Iraq oilman Thamir Ghadhban
The vision of Venezuela’s National Oil Company
Energy CEOs call for Canadian national policy
Coal industry asks Washington for handouts
The fuel merchants of Zimbabwe (smuggling)
