Needing energy – July 6
Gadget boom to drive up energy demand in UK
Electricity in Uganda
Kathmandu’s fuel crisis
Consumption & Demand
Canaries in the coal mine
A list of countries with reported energy shortages occurring within the past few months. (Links included.)
Solutions & sustainability – July 5
LiveEarth pledge (two versions)
Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology
Steady state economy (Brian Czech intvw)
Web site helps you find energy-use profile
De-consumption – July 2
Privatizing responsibility: green consumerism
NY Times: buying into the green movement
Astyk: Use it up, wear it out, make it do, do without
Simple things that can really nake a difference
Rich world’s consumerism may cause African famines
Deceptive landscape
My pleasant walk through these leafy streetscapes is deceptive. For all its orderliness this neighborhood generates enormous entropy that is hidden from the viewer’s eyes. This has implications for our political life because these are the kinds of neighborhoods across the United States from which communities draw their leaders and in which turnout is heaviest during election time.
Peak oil – June 28
Review: Escape From Suburbia
Life after oil is coming… will Alberta be ready?
Finding needles in a haystack: Predicting future oil discoveries based on historical dynamics
Ireland stuck at crossroads … without fuel
ASPO-6 conference in Cork Sept 17-18
Global efforts to substitute for oil: Learning by doing ourselves in
Contemporary peak oil discourse overlooks the “own demand” of substitution. It takes a lot of oil to substitute for oil.
Solutions & sustainability – June 25
A street legal human-powered car
Michael Brownlee on relocalization
What assures consumers on climate change?
FourCorners: Ways for Australians to cut energy consumption
Oil industry – June 25
Shell head: Concentrate on energy efficiency
Exxon’s Tillerson prefers a carbon tax
Oil prices may surge as non-OPEC production peaks, BIS says
Mexico: Calderon to raise taxes to replace lost oil revenue
The ripple effect of refinery fires
Commemorating Admiral Rickover's 1957 speech on energy
Speech to the U.S. House: “Admiral Hyman Rickover, the father of our nuclear navy, gave an amazingly prophetic speech 50 years ago. He noted that we have 8,000 years of recorded history and discussed the extraordinary contribution of energy, particularly oil, to the development of civilization. However, Adm. Rickover noted that oil and all fossil fuels are finite resources that once burned are gone forever.”
Solutions & sustainability – June 13
Transition Towns on BBC’s “You and Yours”
No Impact Man plugs “Riot for Austerity”
Helping planners set a context for local emission reduction targets
Intel and Google’s energy drive
United States – June 12
Senators to begin work on energy measure
Energy efficient, but still using more
To some, high gas prices have a silver lining
