Perils of the green life – Apr 6
Recyclers suffer from clutter
Are you a cloth bag snob?
Living off the fat of the land: grease theft
Cheap solar panels and dodgy installations
Biofuels
Biofuels and climate – Apr 2
Guardian: An unsustainable scam
Norway forests to double bioenergy output
Specially-designed soils could help combat climate change
World Bank climate profiteering
US and UK – Apr 1
Why the US is doomed to be an energy outlaw
Britain seeks loophole in Green Energy targets; nuclear looms
Demands for crackdown on biofuels scam (‘splash and dash’ loophole)
Congress has big questions for Big Oil
West heating twice as fast as rest of world
Renewables – Mar 30
Amping up solar power in Southern California
New Calif 250MW photovoltaic initiative
Time:
The clean energy scam
Wind power breaks records in Spain
Food & agriculture – Mar 26
Sulfuric acid prices explode (due to biofuels, fertilizer demand)
Pig slurry solution to high fertilizer prices
UK fishing industry turning green
Biofuels – Mar 25
Top scientists warn against rush to biofuel
The folly of turning water into fuel
Biofuels – Mar 23
Synthetic life for creating fuel from CO2 feedstock
Poppy power – biodiesel not opium
Bacteria produces oil – side effects?
Biofuel boom threatens food supplies: Nestle
Renewables – Mar 20
They paved paradise and put up … a power source
Banana methane powered cars, pig poo power
Salt could shake up world energy supply
Peak oil overview – March 2008
Peak oil update in the format of a downloadable presentation with comments. Major themes:
– The US oil story
– The world oil story
– Five myths
Renewables – Mar 12
Solar power station lift-off in Adelaide
Pollution called a byproduct of a ‘clean’ fuel
Corn-based ethanol could worsen “dead zone”
United States & Canada – Mar 12
Barbara Ehrenreich: Fall of the American consumer
Army to turn trash into power in Iraq
U.S. may protect Canada oilsands
from new standards
Food & agriculture – Mar 4
Agriculture’s new ‘golden age’
King of soya: environmental vandal or saviour of the world’s poor?
My forbidden fruits (and vegetables)
South Africa electricity crisis – and farmers
Okla. fight over poultry waste escalates
NYT on food: Priced out of the market
In hungry Zimbabwe, pet food as a priority
