Renewables – Feb 25
Our place in the sun (solar and Australia suburbs)
Futurists: solar power to rule in 20 years
The Power of the oceans
Pickens on wind
Investing in clean energy technology
Electricity
Oil industry – Feb 22
Venezuela settles with oil firms (except Exxon)
Russia’s oil industry threatened by high taxes, maturing fields
BP goes back to petroleum
Hofmeister: emissions cap, expand drilling
Shell says cheap renewable energy far off
Renewables – Feb 18
Britain is third worst in EU for use of renewable energy
Greenpeace: All about EfficienCity
Eliminating fossil fuels is friggin’ cheap
Walking: new source of energy
Improving our green job prospects
No one has all the answers to the problems of energy, climate and the economy, but there is one answer that everyone with any sense embraces as a necessary first step toward a permanent solution: we must create green jobs in the renewable energy and energy efficiency industries. However our prospects for a green jobs program in 2008 do not look good.
Peak oil – Feb 15
The Oil Drum: Peak oil, IHS data and the broken clock
IHS: Facts bury theory on peak oil
Tom Whipple on electric cars – can we power them?
PO models forecast China’s oil supply, demand
East-West Center: PO likely in 10-15 years
DoD energy strategy: “More fight – less fuel”
A US Department of Defense energy strategy mentions peak oil, but doesn’t go into details.
A death in the family
A tragedy, like the dead chickadee in the photo, seems small compared to what is happening in the calamitous world we live in now, but not to me.
Clean energy redemption?
Reality aside, what could be better than the cleantech boom? Abundant renewable energy, no serious interruptions to shopping, saved from the perils of global warming, life goes on!
Hard times – Feb 12
Energy crisis hits Tajik press
As Asia food prices bite, analysts warn of worse to come
Rainfall shortages threaten Costa Rica power
Black smoke over China (book reviews)
South Africa energy crisis – Feb 8
Energy lessons from South Africa
Crisis spreads to fuel and gas supplies
Recycling can alleviate energy crisis
The South African butterfly (platinum)
Deep thought – Feb 7
Hooked on growth: our misguided quest for prosperity
Rolf Nordstrom discusses depletion scenarios
Feeding people
The big picture: climate chaos (Jamais Cascio)
The organic apocalypse
South Africa – Feb 6
Power still off in S.A. – the effects on mining
S.A. mines battle on new low-electricity diet
South Africa in the premature long emergency
