Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Friedman on McCain & renewables: 8 strikes and you’re out
Colbert on offshore drilling
Raleigh county mountain at center of coal vs. wind debate
Beware the energy hot air (the Pickens plan)
Woolsey on T Boone Pickens
API: Oil demand at 5-year low
Windfall tax lets Alaska rake in billions from Big Oil
Do it ALL for energy?
Is the end of a cheap fossil fuel era at hand? How will we make the transition from a world dependent on hydrocarbon energy to one powered by a mix of hydrocarbons and renewable energy, and can we profit from this coming shift? Answers to these questions are found in a new book by Brian Hicks and Chris Nelder.
There is likely to be a very short path from petroleum shortages to electricity shortages. Many issues are involved, from the fact that the fuels used in electricity production are themselves dependent on petroleum for their extraction and transportation, to the current state of the US electricity infrastructure, to the impact of peak oil on debt financing.
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
Interview with Swiss director of A Crude Awakening
The path from petroleum shortages to electricity shortages
Oil prices have peaked
High-tech hitchhiking
General Motors VP says Australia must end oil dependence
Sweden rolling out 183 MPH high-speed green train
Organic garden takes over San Francisco’s City Hall lawn
NPR misses real story, plants wrong seeds
A solar success on the farm
The curse of Yemen – qat
Alternative trade networks and the coffee system
Feeling the heat of food security
Brazilian agriculture faces huge losses from climate change
The waste-pickers of Delhi
Junk raft raises awareness of plastics despite adversity, challenges
Recyclers are cashing in on the fortune in your bin
Largest water solar heater with PET bottles installed in Parana, Brazil
A tall, cool drink of … sewage?
Military wants to lead U.S. into the green
Gulf states to harness winds of change
Giant kites to tap power of the high wind
Building affordable solar water heaters
Host of new pylons to carry UK wind farm power
German city wonders how green is too green (solar mandate)
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Changing Lanes(McCain and energy policy
Candidates’ energy plans analyzed (audio)
The true meaning of energy independence (video)
Paris for President?
Great leadership in the face of a cynical power structure
EPA rejects Perry plea on ethanol
Experts clash over viability of biofuels, alternative energy
Burgers or biofuel?
