Renewables – July 10
Decoding the world’s best Energy policies
Roundtable discussion: Outlook for renewable energy (podcast)
Ray Brady at BLM on “solar rights-of-way (video)
Energy Policy
Climate & Environment – July 10
A deal on climate change – but then the backlash
The art of embarrassment: bring back the dunce’s cap?
Water pollution, supply issues top environmental concern in China (video and transcript)
Transport – July 10
Get ready for the post-SUV world!
This love that cranks my motor
California to shame the owners of gas-guzzlers
Emissions deal may add to cost of long-haul flights
Peak oil – July 9
Ian Dunlop of ASPO-Australia on “Insight”
ASPO’s Bell says world must adjust to higher oil prices – video
A critical review of IEA’s oil demand forecast for China
United States & Canada – July 9
Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens wants to supplant oil with wind
Is it safe now to admit Jimmy Carter was right?
Oilsands image fight targets U.S. politicians
Labour’s plan for dealing with high energy prices
Ex-EPA aide tells of White House censorship
In energy, there are no easy answers
Trucking protests – July 9
Protesting truckers bring chaos to New Zealand city streets
German truckers plan to join world fuel-price protests
Truckies threaten two-week strike
Climate – July 9
Doing nothing is not an option for survival
A different climate change apocalypse than the one you were envisioning
Time for Plan B: cutting carbon emissions 80 percent by 2020
Climate change: now what?
Ruthless drought in West Timor puts children in crisis
China’s renewable energy plans: shaken, not stirred
The May 12th earthquake in western China’s Sichuan Province will have effects reaching further outside China than Beijing is letting on. Sichuan Province holds the key to China’s hydroelectric power generation plans in its renewable power targets and the area is also a hub for worldwide outsourced wind turbine equipment. Both were badly damaged.
Is oil independence an illusion?
Robert Bryce’s new book, Gusher of Lies, provides a refreshing counterpoint to many simplistic, political discussions about energy, but in the end, his blithe optimism about fossil fuel availability, U.S. financial resources, and global warming’s consequences leaves his arguments as dangerously deluded as those he criticizes.
Asia – July 8
Japan sees a chance to promote its energy-frugal ways
Various measures to tackle Korea’s soaring energy costs
South Korea sets fuel-saving measures
Oil price shock means China is at risk of blowing up
What to do? – July 8
Richard Heinberg: Want Cheap Oil? Reduce Demand!
Cooling a fevered planet; Economics, policy, and vision for fighting global warming
Daniel Ellsberg: Learning from past disasters, preventing future ones
United States – July 6
NYT: American energy policy, asleep at the spigot
America’s love affair fades as the car becomes burden of suburbia
US oil firms seek drilling access, but exports soar
