Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Shall we plan and prepare for the real future: a world without oil and without electric power. Or, shall we continue to avoid reality, dream about what will never happen, and waste time, effort, and capital on illusions?
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
Follow Cuba’s emissions standard
Sustenance for sustainability
Guardians of the past uncover green lessons for the present
The Most Radical Thing You Can Do
World can halt fossil fuel use by 2090: study
IEA cites gains from energy efficiency
A Solar Gold Rush Is Spreading From California to New Jersey
The end of the road for U.S. carmakers?
Lessons learned from the 1932-1933 Presidential transition
Kunstler: Easthampton burning?
Impact of economic crisis on power investments
Connecting the oily dots of the economic meltdown
Find out by reading Ellis Jones’ The Better World Shopping Guide – 2nd Edition (book review)
Global recession? Must be time for the media’s alternative-energy backlash
Peter Meisen on BP/Economist renewable energy debate
Kenya: Biofuels boom and bust
Political pressure keeps ethanol cash flowing
T. Boone Pickens has challenged the U.S. presidential candidates to come up with a detailed energy plan. This speech offers them the outline of a response to that challenge…
John McCain could still win election by throwing a ‘green Hail Mary’
Bartlett election preview
Green energy likely winner, big oil loser in Senate races
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
Going Udall the way
New Energy Economy Emerging in the United States
Former EIA chief Hakes talks about road to energy independence, economic stability (video & transcript)
Former BP chief Lord Browne speaks against alarmism on biofuels
UC Berkeley study: Green efforts boost economy
Making the case for wind power, again
Wood heat rises again
UK announces world’s largest algal biofuel project
