Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Green consumer: these two words paired together seem oxymoronic. With a lot of hype surrounding the so-called new green movement, we need to determine how we can use our time and money wisely, instead of impulsively, to make a legitimate difference to the environment, the economy, and to our wallets.
A market-based approach to America’s Energy Crisis
Confronting Today’s Oil Crisis in the U.S.
Consumerism – Australia’s national religion
UK’s fossil food
Bangladesh cans UK firms coal mine plans
China to make olefins from coal
Coal keeps US economy burning
Rail seeks ways to haul more Wyoming coal
Texas’ coal-burning question
SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Saudi Aramco, a major fuel oil exporter to East Asia, has imported its first-ever cargoes of the residual fuel, taking a total of around 160,000 tonne for August and September deliveries, to meet peak summer utility demand. . .
Conscience Consumers and the New Austerity
Green Wave Surges onto Pop Culture’s Shores
These books are free
There has been some discussion in various Peak Oil circles suggesting that the amount of global petroleum available for export to other nations may have peaked late last year. But you’d never know that moment had passed from looking at EIA’s data.
People are finally starting to take to the streets to protest climate change. But for those who won’t or can’t do that, there are plenty of other actions you can take now to damp down climate change.
Last week, Shell’s US President John Hofmeister came to Cleveland as part of a US tour to offer Shell’s perspectives on national energy security.
When peak oil forces the world to power down, much more efficient use of our existing electricity supply is likely to be the only readily available source of additional energy for a while.
The question for a future with ecological limits becomes: What shall we do with this powerful force of envy which has been awakened across the globe? How will people, both the rich and those aspiring to greater wealth, come to grips with limits which will undermine the consumer society within which that envy flourishes?
A/C D.C.: The deluded world of air conditioning / Antarctica under siege / National Ocean Policy Study Subcommittee Hearing: “State of the Oceans 2006″ / Jellyfish plague blamed on climate change
How much is enough? Have you ever asked yourself? By purposefully going without we can again understand just how good we’ve got it.
