Radical overhaul of emissions allocation required
As the Montreal conference on global warming opens, we cannot hope for progress on climate change unless the approach to negotiations is drastically revised.
Activism
Politics & economics – Dec 4
Is CAFE kaput? /
Embrace the new energy economy /
US, China should develop joint energy programs to avoid war: Sen. Lieberman /
A changing China offers lessons for the world /
Disposable chic: For retailers, fashion turnover gets ever faster, cheaper
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 4
Enviros need to get social, says sociologist Ganz /
Tory hopeful and environmentalist Zac Goldsmith /
Meat wall (ick!) /
With the grain on the Hundred Mile Diet /
Dreaming big to keep America rolling /
Green cities movement – is Eugene on the bus?
Congressman backs post-oil planning: Thompson says Willits can set national example
“We can’t keep going the way we’ve been going,” said Congressman Mike Thompson. “That’s a no brainer.” Speaking during Mondays meeting with local officials and members of the Willits Economic LocaLization (WELL) group, Thompson was referring to an economy based on insatiable consumption of fossil fuels.
Peak oil: Not an environmental silver bullet
Environmentalists seem to have a somewhat naive faith that once the concept of peak oil sinks in, people will move — as though by the force of tides — to support renewable, decentralized energy.
Politics & economics – Nov 29
Syriana and Iraq /
BP alternative energy: it’s a start /
Iraq report: It’s about the oil /
Now for Blair’s dodgy nuclear dossier /
New tax may fund nuclear stations /
Senate approves coal-to-liquids development plan /
Ford seeks US help to make fuel-efficient cars
Environment – Nov 29
Impact of climate change ‘can be likened to WMD’/
In Montreal, delegates look at post-Kyoto world /
US resists climate change pressure at UN conference /
The gathering winds (hurricanes and climate change) /
Oil sands make Canada complicit in global warming /
Nitrogen is biggest environmental threat /
Climate talks – hoops and hot air (analysis) /
Politics & economics – Nov 28
What your Mama never told you about NAFTA: A look at Canada’s oil /
Russia pressing for world energy market transparency /
Chile’s Bachelet says Greens back her energy plan /
Labour to ease pollution rules in UK if gas runs short /
Crude designs: the rip-off of Iraq’s oil wealth /
High fuel costs projected to slash farm incomes /
Finding new ways to fuel the farm /
Oil-rich Venezuela covets nuclear power
Politics & economics – Nov 13
Future of energy in Rockies /
Higher fuel costs coming /
Sudan at the head of a Chinese global sweep to mop up world’s oil resources /
Azerbaijan: oil billions and poverty /
Saudi oil expansion plan ‘may face delay’ /
Trans-Afghan gas pipeline project likely in 2006
US energy policy – Nov 13
The petroleum bomb by George P. Shultz and R. James Woolsey /
Let’s hurry on energy policy or the Right will get there first /
Krauthammer: U.S. not serious about oil independence and pays price /
Republicans drop effort to end ban on offshore drilling /
So Iraq was about the oil
Tribute to Rep. Roscoe Bartlett
Roscoe didn’t tell me anything I didn’t know, but he said it so well that I don’t mind admitting I was in tears by the time he stepped down amidst a standing ovation. So was Dave, just to prove I wasn’t the only girlie-man in the audience.
Politics and economics – Nov 11
Soaring energy costs have Md. aluminum plant on the brink /
China: A miracle and a menace /
Oil and grilling don’t mix in Washington /
House shelves Alaska drilling in budget fight /
The coal war: fighting back in Texas /
‘Streamlining’ King Coal’s beheading of Appalachia /
Uzbekistan ‘facing oil crisis’ /
Recycling the petrodollars
