Education

Sustainability and Environment Headlines – 15 July, 2005

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Rationing and tradable carbon entitlements / Peak oil in Portland / Get ready for future oil shock, [NZ] lobby group warns / Towards Carfree Cities V – Conference in Budapest July 17-23 /
Satellite Sunshine Mapping Benefits Solar Energy / Faced with this crisis / Australia hung out to dry on climate change / Europe’s greenhouse gas trade hots up / Tax cuts push on climate change / Ontario breaks power consumption record, heat wave likely to last for weeks / Scientists Raise Alarm About Ocean Health / Record Hurricane Year has Oil Industry Worried / France Rations Water as Drought Takes Hold / Tasmania facing power crisis /
Shanghai suffers as car culture takes hold / Guns, Germs and Steel on PBS in July / Blue Gold

UK ‘Peak Speak’ Forum – London, 16th July

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An open forum on the implications of the terminal decline of global oil production will be held just outside London (Hackbridge, Surrey) on Saturday July 16th 2005 from 10am until 5.30pm. Hosted by the UK ‘Peak Oil’ campaign group PowerSwitch.org.uk, the event will give many people already aware of ‘Peak Oil’ the opportunity to develop their understanding further.

Willyoujoinus.com

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“Energy will be one of the defining issues of this century. One thing is clear: the era of easy oil is over. What we do next will determine how well we meet the energy needs of the entire world in this century and beyond.

So we invite you to join us for a series of discussions on some very important issues. Will you join us?”

Environment/Sustainability – 4 July, 2005

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We’re on a different planet in fighting global warming / Ocean species at risk from global warming: scientists / Have mercy, I cry, City! / Who is afraid of fiscal federalism and Resource Control? / Homage to Patagonia / Evolving the Market Square / irst hydrogen plane tested in US / Chinese premier urges building of energy-saving society / Less is more as colleges turn eco-friendly / CalCars Plans Commercial Spin-off for Plug-In Hybrid Conversions

Where to with ‘Emergy’ Literacy?

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H.T.Odum first developed the concepts and methods of Emergy accounting, and an increasing number of authorities advocate the discipline as the best, if not the only, way of determining which processes and fuels are actually ‘winners’ in any meaningful way.