Economics – July 25
BHP hit by cost of own iron
Rising food prices curb aid to global poor
Wall St smarties do it again: man-made monster escapes
Money is Also Destroyed
Consumption & Demand
Economics – July 22
Life without goods made in China
Developed world ‘having second thoughts’ about globalisation
Welcome to Richistan, USA
Electricity demand – July 21
Maryland adopts plan For energy efficiency
UK
households test ‘smart’ electricity meters
Ghana distributes free energy saving bulbs
A report on the American Petroleum Institute conference call and review of the NPC report
Since the National Petroleum Council (NPC) is an industry group and has always provided optimistic forecasts in the past, it shouldn’t be a surprise that its report doesn’t go all the way to peak oil indications. But it definitely starts talking about peak oil, recommending many of the actions that one would expect based on peak oil indications.
Culture death
Cultural patterns, like political institutions, are likely to go through drastic changes as a society based on cheap abundant energy has to stand its assumptions on its head to deal with the twilight of fossil fuels. Can societies that have turned their cultural resources into a sideline of the marketing industry put them to more sustainable uses?
Housing & urban design – July 18
Planning for Climate Change
Surviving the Century
Landlords wake up and smell the green
Birmingham pilots Sun-space scheme
Pressure to preserve tree canopy heats up
Climate policy – July 18
Save the Earth, buy less
United States Carbon Footprint Map
Lawmakers Doubt Voters Would Fund Big Carbon Cuts
Pew’s Claussen compares cap-and-trade and carbon tax approaches for emissions reduction
We just can't get enough
In China we are witnessing the mass poisoning of a people and the ecological devastation of a nation – and it raises ugly questions about our greed.
Letter to Airmen – energy update
As a part of our nation’s defense, we should consider what we need to be available in the event of an interruption in energy supplies, and to push technologies that reduce our energy demand.
In West China, saving the go-go juice
Along the way to Lai Tan, I wanted to gaze out of bus windows and simply compare the differences between Chinese and western methods of fossil fuel use and human power, but first I had to get to the bus station.
Solutions & sustainability – July 11
Preaching the anti-shopping gospel
Downsize my dish (less food please)
Green chemistry: changing an industry
Maryland Governor challenge on energy saving
Geopolitics – July 8
The rising and falling power of hydrocarbon states
Developing nations lock up more resources
Britain slashes reliance on Mideast oil
Australia increasingly dependent on ME oil
