Solutions & sustainability – Apr 27
Go Green: How to build an earth-friendly community
How green Is golf?
Treat efficiency as an energy resource
Consumption & Demand
Clothing – Apr 27
Clothing stores feel sharp economic pinch
The end of cheap clothes is near
Thrift shops – a wardrobe essential
Gardening in the nude (or new use for rhubarb)
Smarter energy – Apr 24
A steamy solution to global warming
Recycling waste heat from power plants
Local power: Community Choice Aggregation
Efficiency: the unloved solution that works
Putting your home on an energy diet
Business as usual
Reassurances that the energy economy will return to normal sometime soon miss a crucial detail – for the last century or so, the role of energy in the industrial world has been anything but normal. Just how distorted has the age of cheap abundant energy left our expectations and assumptions?
Peak oil at the New York Times
Jad Mouawad: The big thirst
Paul Krugman: Running out of planet to exploit
Krugman reads The Oil Drum
Dysfunction – Apr 18
In Africa, outages stifle a boom
Plastics: adored, deplored and ubiquitous
Dysfunction – Apr 14
Is Earth Day the new Christmas?
Chile power crunch may cut copper output
Cement – a dirty business
What Emancipation didn’t stop after all (slavery)
A fairly simple way to save millions In energy
If you sleep between sheets that have been dried in the open air, you will understand why my wife and I never even thought about saving electricity when we put up the clothesline you see in the picture.
Plastics and rubber – Apr 11
First town in Europe to ban plastic bags
Schools offered uniforms made from old bottles
Harnessing biology, and avoiding oil, for chemical goods
Setting sail for Garbage Island (floating plastics)
Brazil builds £10m condom factory to help save rainforest
Peak oil – Apr 11
Rep. Bartlett at Ohio State teach-in
Chinese scholar on oil: Old supply, young demand
Wither peak oil at Rudd’s 2020 Summit?
IMF accepts peak oil ?
James Hansen: Yankee ticket prices and fossil fuels
Mideast oil exporters – Apr 6
Energy demand in Gulf States to curtail oil exports
Dubai power shortage continues to deepen
Qatar says it will continue to peg its currency to the falling dollar
Iranian Pres. calls for joint OPEC bank, currency
Net energy and Jevons’ Paradox
Discussions of net energy often miss the energy costs of distributing energy and putting it to its end use. These systems costs pose a major challenge to some proposed alternative energy sources, but they also offer support for an old but neglected response to today’s energy predicament.
