North America – May 15
Little inflation in April – as long as you didn’t eat and kept your car in the garage
McCain’s gift to the green movement
The Battery and the Charger B.C. and Alberta need each other’s power
Electricity
Renewables – May 14
Myanmar biofuel drive deepens food shortage
Boone Pickens ready to bet on wind power
Oregon Inst of Tech to be 100% geothermal
DOE’s John Mizroch – Renewable gigawatts
Transport – May 14
Paul Krugman: Stranded in suburbia
Nissan plans electric car in U.S. by ’10
Diesel cars – promises and problems
Renewables – May 13
Sleeping giant Brazil awakes (biofuels)
UK palm oil consumption fuels Colombia violence
Report says wind can produce a fifth of US electricity needs by 2030
Renewables – May 12
Scientist Ramanathan: Solar-cookers could cut pollution
Rockefellers get more muscle in fight to make Exxon focus on renewables
Vinod Khosla (biofuels interview)
Community solutions – May 10
Many hands make light work of saving energy
Community gardens grow communities
Biodegradable home products, ready to rot
Building an ecologically sensible home
Prices & supplies – May 8
Yergin: High oil prices spur alternative fuel shift
Greenland oil estimates over-reported
Analyst sees oil surging to $200
Harnessing sunlight on the cheap
MIT student project aims to develop cost-efficient solar power. For a project that could be on the very cutting edge of renewable energy, this one is actually decidedly low tech–and that’s the point.
United States – May 7
Green’s moment of truth?
Big Oil’s friends in the Senate (tax credits for renewables)
$5 gas near, 78% of Americans say
Economic stimulus check burned for warmth
Uranium claims along Grand Canyon rim
In West, mining’s return faces resistance
The U. S. electric grid: will it be our undoing?
Many believe that a decline in oil production can be remedied by increasing our use of electricity – more nuclear, wind, solar voltaic, geothermal or even coal. This model assumes that our electric grid will be working well enough for this to happen. There is substantial doubt that this will be the case.
Bipartisan effort to continue renewable energy tax credits
Congressman Roscoe Bartlett and 34 colleagues introduced bipartisan legislation to break the stalemate on extension of renewable energy tax credits.
+ background on why this is important:
Thomas L. Friedman: Dumb as We Wanna Be
New York Times editorial
CSM: Arizona’s solar aspirations in peril
Summary of
Clean Energy Tax Stimulus Act of 2008
Innovation – May 6
When homes have ‘envirodashboards’
Tech CEO Council’s Mehlman: IT efficiency
Infrastructure to encourage survival technologies
