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CBC finds secret advice to politicians: oilsands emissions hard to scrub
Global oil price collapse
World on cusp of clean tech revolution: Merrill Lynch
Financial crisis? That’s nothing
The IEA WEO 2008: Will coal usage be phased out?
Calls to pump up China’s oil stockpile
The words “holy crap” were pretty much the first ones to my lips this morning, when several people sent me George Monbiot’s latest column…After being so flattered I could die, I suffered the irresistable desire to argue back, and I’m going to…
Amidst all the bluster about “energy independence” the proper decision makers will soon figure out that tougher codes and regulations are the quickest and cheapest way to make progress towards this goal.
U.S. pledges top $7.7 trillion to ease frozen credit
Kunstler: Zombie economics
Homer-Dixon: Deflation’s big game
Bailouts dwarf spending on climate and poverty crises
Perelman: Where did the economic crisis come from?
Reality meets ideology (on Fox News)
How the new racial landscape of America meets the Green movement, increasing the visibility of both.
Alaska’s Key to Oil Production – It’s a Gas…
UK: Coal’s return raises pollution threat
Oil giants talk tax to kill environment
A Detroit Bailout Must Include a Green Makeover
A Green Deal for Transportation
Is Obama’s Energy Plan Enough? No, Many Environmentalists Say
Obama’s green start
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Green-basher Boris relaunches himself as an eco-warrior
King coal wins battle of Smalley
Power in the desert: solar towers will harness sunshine of southern Spain
American Physical Society Report on Energy Efficiency
Challenges To Environmentally Responsible Energy Use In Today’s Society
At a New York Seminary, a Green Idea Gets Tangled in Red Tape
Peak oil activists from across the nation gathered on a college campus over the Halloween weekend to confront the scary prospects of declining worldwide oil production – and to focus on how they and their communities can cope. “People can find ways to lead happy, fulfilling lives even as this doomed system crumbles all around them,” Russian immigrant writer Dmitry Orlov told the conference.
The U.S. intelligence agencies dust off their crystal ball and give us their long-term view of the future. In a striking reversal of the triumphalism of the Bush years, the report sees the future as multi-polar and roiled by shocks. Resource scarcity and climate change are highlighted. Despite the bracing dose of reality in the report, peak oilers will find much to criticize. (Excerpts, links, commentary)
