Energy Crunch: the global picture
Everything is changing on energy, and yet everything remains the same. This is the message from the latest World Energy Outlook by the International Energy Agency.
climate change
Breaking Down The Numbers On Ethanol: Inside The Associated Press Biofuels Report
The Associated Press released a scathing new report on environmental degradation driven by American biofuel policy on Tuesday — which promptly got it into an online brawl with Fuels America, a group representing much of the U.S. biofuel industry.
Hello Warsaw, This Is Haiyan Calling
It seems these days that whenever Mother Nature wants to send an urgent message to humankind, it sends it via the Philippines. This year the messenger was Haiyan, known in the Philippines as Yolanda.
Unsustainability Now!
What will happen when an unsustainable system attempts to keep running as if the resources necessary for its continuation still existed?
We Have the Renewable Energy We Need to Power the World—So What’s Stopping Us?
Can renewables really replace fossil fuels? If so, are we willing to do what’s necessary to get there?
Jeremy Leggett: “Make no mistake, this is an energy civil war”
No matter who’s right in the peak oil debates, there has always been easily enough oil and gas, combined with coal, to wreck the climate and bring down civilisation.
“If not us, then who? If not now, then when?”
This tear-choked call to action from Naderev Saño, lead negotiator for the Philippines at the Climate Conference in Doha 2012, is made absolutely heartbreaking by the events of the weekend.
Climate, resilience and geopolitics – headlines
•Obama Administration Takes Action on Climate ‘Resilience’ •Global security in the age of climate responsibility •Climate Change Seen Posing Risk to Food Supplies •CO2 levels hit record high •How the world is failing at its climate goals, in one giant chart •The Climate Mapping Tool You’ve Been Waiting For •2012’s carbon emissions in five graphs
Change The Earth
Our planet is in a state of emergency.
Why United Nations Climate Change Conferences Will Always Fail
Over two decades have already been wasted on an ineffective approach which is simply not up to the task of driving the fundamental societal changes needed to foestall dangerous climate change.
Beyond Keystone XL: Why One Maine Town Is On The Front Lines Of The Battle Against Tar Sands
On Tuesday, approximately 25,000 residents of South Portland will decide the future of what could soon become America’s next tar sands pipeline. Not Keystone XL; the Portland-Montreal Pipeline.
The propaganda campaign against peaking fossil fuel production
The two major threats to the continued viability of the fossil fuel industries (in our current economy) are decreased public demand for their products and a decreased ability to supply them.
