Coal – July 2
Richard Heinberg: Coal in China
Aluminium supply in deficit on coal shortage – UBS
Equipment shortage slows US coal output growth-CEO
Staff
Biofuels & renewables – July 2
Jatropha takes root in Santa Barbara
Weather risks cloud promise of biofuel
Financing energy independence
Housing & urban design – July 2
Canada: Today’s suburbs, tomorrow’s slums?
Rob Hopkins Film Review: Garbage Warrior
Elephant in the Drop-Off Zone
Consumerism – July 2
China Watch: Plastic bag ban trumps market and consumer efforts
Australia: Gimme shelter from affluenza
Sex and the City and handbag insanity
Geopolitics – July 2
Pentagon official warns of Israeli attack on Iran
US ‘won’t allow’ Iran to shut key Gulf oil route
Keep an eye on Khuzestan
Bush is trying to impose a classic colonial status on Iraq
‘Oh Happy Day’
Pipeline opens new front in Afghan war
Climate – July 2
George Monbiot: This economic panic is pushing the planet right back down the agenda
The world’s will to tackle climate change is irresistible
Pew poll: Gas prices pump up US support for drilling
U.S. Midwest floods show signs of global warming
Peak oil – July 2
Peak oil: IEA inches toward the pessimists’ camp
R. James Woolsey, former CIA director, on energy security (interview)
Saudi oil project brings skepticism to the surface (Khurais)
Cutler Cleveland: Energy transitions past and future
Will wartime mobilisation address peak oil?
Drill here? – July 1
Gail Tverberg at TOD: The US offshore drilling debate – “start now” or “wait a while”
Three points on ANWR
Geopolitics – July 1
Seymour M. Hersh: Preparing the battlefield -stepping up secret moves against Iran
U.S. advised Iraqi ministry on oil deals
Iraq’s oil ministry to decide on technical-service contracts
Rhizome platform design
Can we get away from the hierarchal model of centralized manufacture and distribution, and replace it with a world where design emerges from open-source collaboration and is manufactured at the point of use by 3-D printers and community manufacturing centers?
Pasture: the foundation of garden farm success
A sure way to tell the direction you should take in garden farming is to watch the trend in commercial farming and then do the opposite. Commercial farming has de-emphasized — and all but ignored in the corn belt — pasture and tree crop farming because these types of agriculture lack the ability to return quick and high-gross profits.
Democrats are blowing our best chance for clean energy
How the Dems sacked one of the most important opportunities to turn around our energy future.
