Transport – May 21
Obama’s big step in right direction on auto fuel efficiency and emissions
Obama auto efficiency move a blow to U.S. refiners
Getting Americans out from behind the wheel
Bicycles touted as ‘first modern post-fossil vehicle’
Energy Policy
Environment & climate – May 21
Healing Mother Earth: E.O. Wilson talk
Glaciers go, leaving drought, conflict and tension in Andes
The flawed logic of the cap-and-trade debate
From ‘alarmed’ to ‘dismissive’: the six ways Americans view global warming
United States – May 21
How to follow the fossil fuel money on Capitol Hill
US energy use a national security threat: study
Kunstler: Bad collateral
America goes on furlough
Energy policy – May 19
Krugman: Empire of carbon (China)
Saudi must rein in soaring power consumption
Thriving Norway provides an economics lesson
Australia delays carbon trading scheme until 2011
Peak Oil Review – May 18
A weekly roundup of Peak Oil news, including:
-Production and prices
-Nigeria
-IEA lowers demand
-A changing LGN story
-Briefs
Climate – May 16
Dealing with climate risks: adaptation
Global warming may exceed infections as health threat
Climate change biggest threat to health, doctors say
Bill McKibben: Can 350.org save the world?
Depletion & peak oil – May 16
Book review: On Borrowed Time? Assessing the Threat of Mineral Depletion
Letter in Science on Hubbert linearization
Kjell to speak on peak oil in Sydney
Are we moving towards a new oil crisis?
The slavery of oil
United States and Canada – May 15
Barack Obama’s key climate bill hit by $45m PR campaign
Scouts Train to Fight Terrorists, and More
Deb Doncaster at CPFO talks about Ontario’s Green Energy and Economy Act (audio)
Geopolitics – May 15
Report: Climate change will bring big problems for small number of countries
Moscow warns of future energy wars
King Abdullah of Jordan’s ultimatum: peace now or it’s war next year
Pipelineistan goes Af-Pak
ODAC Newsletter – 15 May 2009
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
Renewables & efficiency – May 14
The Wind does NOT Blow “Only 1/3 of the Time”
Yes, we can solve the energy crisis
The Value of Wind – why more renewable energy means lower electricity bills
Peak oil notes – May 14
A weekly round up including:
– Prices and production
– Venezuela
– China
