Energy & sustainability – Nov 29
NYT on EROEI and the Limits of Growth
What is energy worth?
Global warming & energy policy on collision course
Clueless in America: feeding the tape worms of desire
Consumption & Demand
Geopolitics – Nov 16
Abqaiq’s message to Washington
G20 to push to open up oil trade
Oil revenues fuel resistance to U.S.
Former CIA chief: ‘Oil dependence threatens US, Israel’
Attitude adjustment: Facing our ecological predicament
The approach which is hardest to sell seems like the safest. It relies on the concrete, concerted actions of people everywhere doing things that require no miracles of technology, no rosy assumptions about the future availability of critical resources, and only limited faith in the marketplace. It is an approach that one can get started on today without the enactment of any big government program.
Wasting away
Allow me to introduce you to the greenest people I have ever known. They are paragons. If the world had only followed their example we might not now be facing the threat of either drowning in the floodwaters created by global warming or watching fertile land turn into desert.
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Let’s speak about energy (and a gas tax) now
Limiting fuel consumption is a matter of national security. Taxing such consumption – in increasing amounts over time – is a simple signal that this national security issue is taken seriously and that everyone is involved.
It’s the patriotic thing to do
Electricity & demand – Nov 7
Power failures hit Europe /
Smart metering and smarter metering /
Flat screen televisions ‘will add to global warming’
IEA World Energy Outlook 2006 – reports (updated)
Developing world to drive 70% oil demand /
IEA backs nuclear power /
World must spend extra $3 trillion on energy by 2030 /
World risks ‘dirty’ energy future /
Top energy agency warns of ‘dirty’
future
Solar Anniversary
These cycles of conservation efforts and new consumer trends prompt the nagging thought that my efforts are, but the futile offerings of an environmentalist do-gooder. It was with these thoughts that I sat down for the 17th annual Bioneers conference and took out my notebook.
Electricity – Oct 23
Britons are top energy-wasters /
Executives: electrical worries looming /
Alaskans face prospect of no heat /
Dark days ahead /
Texas lawmakers may revisit electric deregulation
(post-)Hydrocarbon Aesthetics
Richard Heinberg reflects on humanity’s aesthetic past, present, and post-peak future.
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 18
E.O. Wilson on environment and religion /
Seattle City Light fights climate change /
Green living takes root in Sweden /
Integrating energy, transportation & land use /
Certified 100% fair trade organic pre-composting material in biodegradeable packaging
Consumerism & population – Oct 17
The Inuit and the cure for affluence
Albert Bartlett and the 300 million
The next 100 million and the face of America
An elephant crackup?
