Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The May 12th earthquake in western China’s Sichuan Province will have effects reaching further outside China than Beijing is letting on. Sichuan Province holds the key to China’s hydroelectric power generation plans in its renewable power targets and the area is also a hub for worldwide outsourced wind turbine equipment. Both were badly damaged.
Japan sees a chance to promote its energy-frugal ways
Various measures to tackle Korea’s soaring energy costs
South Korea sets fuel-saving measures
Oil price shock means China is at risk of blowing up
America’s middle-class collapse
Carolyn Baker: I think I saw Tom Paine on the 4th of July
Storm over Cape Cod (wind farm fight)
U.S. lifts moratorium on new solar projects
Naomi Klein: Disaster capitalism (Iraq oil)
Houston, we have a solution – wind power
Jatropha takes root in Santa Barbara
Weather risks cloud promise of biofuel
Financing energy independence
How the Dems sacked one of the most important opportunities to turn around our energy future.
We need to be prepared for the worst when it comes to peak oil, insists Zachary Nowak.
US halts solar projects over environment fears
Nevada brothels hit hard by gas prices
Oil price raises insolvency prospect for dry-cleaners
Teenagers’ cruising declines
Drop in revenue strains municipal budgets
High electricity prices possible ‘for years to come’
Legislative and policy responses to energy prices
According to the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2008, German Primary Energy consumption dropped -5.6% in 2007. What does the German example mean for everyone else?
We are currently in a deep and horrible disaster, being visited on the world’s poorest and the tentacles are gradually crawling up the anchor to take down the rest of the ship. But I also think that there is a good deal of reason for hope – we have vast capacities, vast resources and vast imagination.
The economics of solar power
How clean coal cooks your brain
Radioactive déjà vu in the American West
Many people, deep in their hearts, think that ecological disasters apply mostly to other people. But, of course, as Midwesterners are finding out right now, that’s not true.
