Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
•Boulder County activists concerned about flooded oil, gas wells •U-M technical reports examine hydraulic fracturing in Michigan •Shale Energy No Quick Solution •Never-Released Energy Department Report Predicts Increasing Domestic Conflicts over Water, Energy
•Swedish pension funds urged to dump fossil fuel holdings •Romantic Germany risks economic decline as green dream spoils •German Energy Storage Plan Could Trigger New Market Boom •Buying Local Solar Makes Florida City a World Leader •Constituency voices: realising the potential of community energy [Report]California’s Unusual Plan to Cut Greenhouse Gases
•The Fossil Fuels War
•On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs
•Big Data, Disaster Resilience and Lord of the Rings
•Dreaming of Uncivilisation
•Dealing in Doubt: Greenpeace Report Exposes Fossil Fuel Funded Climate Denial Machine •Abbottalypse Now •Naomi Klein: Green groups may be more damaging than climate change deniers •VIEWPOINT: Naomi Klein’s Criticism Of Environmental Groups Missed The Mark •The Fossil Fuels War
If the experts at the U.S. Department of Energy are right, the startling “new” fuels of 2040 will be oil, coal, and natural gas — and we will find ourselves on a baking, painfully uncomfortable planet.
Warming-worsened drought is causing problems all around the Mediterranean, especially Syria…
Commercially exploiting gas hydrates on any significant scale may prove to be extremely challenging—but if successful,it would prolong our dependency on fossil fuels and contribute to ever-growing greenhouse gas emissions.
•More Fracking Headaches As Earthquake Evidence Grows •"Frackademia" By Law: Section 999 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 Exposed •’Baseless economics’: Lord Stern on David Cameron’s claims that a UK fracking boom can bring down price of gas •Fracking brings climate debate closer to home •U.K.’s Davey Warns of Hype Over Shale Gas Benefits, Times Says
As I look around today I see a shift underway from ‘environment vs business’ to ‘business vs business’. The global impact on both policy and investment decisions could be revolutionary.
Behind the conflict in Syria are the long-term issues of climate change (drought) and control of oil resources. Here are the latest excerpts from analyses and reader opinions.
Malpede imagines the life of a family in which Grandpa has figured out that the world is being destroyed but the world’s communications system works for the destroyers.
What’s a President to do when confronted with killer gas?
