Climate fixes – June 10
Could Cap and Trade Cause Another Market Meltdown?
Alberta Environment Minister: Carbon capture no ‘silver bullet’
Papua New Guinea and carbon trading: money grows on trees
Carbon Offsetting is “Fundamentally Flawed”
Energy Policy
Transport – June 10
U.S. trains take longer now than 30-60 years ago
Oil’s Ascent To Ground Airlines Again
Environmental assessment of passenger transportation should include infrastructure and supply chains
United States – June 9
Lagging Recognition
Industry Defends Drilling, Ignores Water Contamination
Upping the Ante
Peak oil & supplies – June 9
The CEO Poll: On black gold
Shell’s Willem Schulte says we have enough oil, for now
High oil prices and the end of globalization really?
An Alternative National Energy Security Assessment for Australia
UK & Europe – June 9
European communist parties on energy
German regions selected for electric mobility pilots
Economy Shows Cracks in European Union
Alistair Darling says Labour to blame for BNP poll success
Waste & recycling – June 9
World’s poor overwhelmed by rubbish
Converting Garbage into Fuel
Recycling revolution begins in blood and guts
The Top 6 Ways to Convert Poop Into Electricity
Renewables & efficiency – June 8
Antibiotic problem haunts biofuels
Cool Proposal (artificial photosynthesis)
Green energy overtakes fossil fuel investment, says UN
What a bleeping joke
I’ll admit that I never had much hope for the Waxman-Markey Cap & Trade climate bill, but now it’s just a bad, bad joke.
Peak oil – June 6
Financial Times: “for all their crankiness, the Peak Oilists are on to something”
Peak oil’s impact on energy policy
Five Easy Leases: Ghawar’s Discovery Wells
Aleklett in Australia
May ASPO Germany meeting now online
Solutions & sustainability – June 5
Passing of Father Thomas Berry, noted ecological thinker
It Isn’t Nice
A Promise to Be Ethical in an Era of Immorality
ODAC Newsletter – Jun 5
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
Ethanol Summit 2009 and President Clinton
When President Clinton made his first of six trips, Brazil was a poor nation that needed to borrow money from its wealthy brother. Today the roles are reversed. The USA now borrows money from the entire world while Brazil has money in its “piggybank”. The decisive change is that Brazil is on the way to becoming self-sufficient in oil and that they export ethanol, while the USA is becoming increasingly dependent on imported energy. Access to energy is decisive for a nation’s future.
