Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Duke Energy’s New Solar Concept Has Potential to Supercharge Solar & Smart Grid Companies
Physicists release report pushing for greater efficiency in transportation and building sectors (video and transcript)
Ethanol Makers Hit by Cash Crunch, Corn Prices
Berkeley council to vote on solar tax district
WSJ special section on energy
Physicists: U.S. could cut oil use with better houses, cars
Physicists to unveil major energy efficiency plan(video)
UK report: Energy security ‘more important than climate change’
EU could halt energy demand growth, says study
Cheap thrills: Can you live on a pound a day?
Save the Environment: Drill, Baby, Drill
Seeking credit for renewable energy
A climate for change
Phase out coal and burn trees instead, urges climatologist Hansen
Hung over from the ethanol party
Europe lowers goals for biofuel use
e360: The corn ethanol juggernaut
Kickapoo Nation sets sights on energy independence
Cooling applications use about 30% of power usage in US households and are a significant cause of peak demand. Replacing these systems with solar thermal powered A/C systems could save energy for other uses.
We talked here quite a bit recently about what we might do to make money after our new normal begins to emerge, and John Michael Greer, whose new book _The Long Descent_ was one of the best books I’ve read this year, has offered his own take on the future job market. I agree with nearly everything he says – nearly everything. And churlish as it is to disagree with someone on the smallest point, who you agree with on every large particular, I’m going to take the time to meditate on at least one of his observations that I don’t quite agree with, because it is something that I think quite does matter in our future…
Love, Schmove – Just tell me how to build community with the guy who mows his lawn in his speedo!
Oil prices, technology, and the cost of ignorance
Meet the greenshifters
It never hurts to be prepared for Armageddon: Be to go-to gal
Is it better to lease, hire or borrow than to buy?
Brown vows freedom from oil dictatorship
How food waste can power your home
When the wind doesn’t blow
Environment Minister Sammy Wilson: climate change views are “hysterical psuedo-religion”
Governor Palin – How Big Oil went from friend to foe in Alaska
Roscoe Bartlett: Drilling for clean energy
Winona LaDuke on climate and energy
Riding the wind with T. Boone
With homeowner in doghouse, bobcats move in
Solar panels are hot for the stealing
Greek “Robin Hoods” steal at the store, give to the poor?
Blackouts force power-free surgery
The Take-Us (self-published book)
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
