Hard times – Feb 8
Tajikistan ‘facing catastrophe’
Frozen Tajikistan pleads for energy aid
Pakistan industry warns of economic turmoil due to energy crisis
Botswana power shortage a serious obstruction to growth
Energy Policy
Renewables – Feb 6
Study: Unlike the ’70s, energy lessons will last
5 myths about Earth-friendly energy
Bush budget cuts renewables, efficiency
Wind farms need techs to keep running
United States – Feb 6
Morford: The machine gun of capitalism
Bush recommends 40% cut in Amtrak budget
Kunstler: Serial bubbles?
One anthropologist’s view
Biofuels – Feb 6
Solution to energy independence is at local level
Record financing for biofuels, not food
Biofuels make little environmental difference
CERA’s productive capacity ruse
Why do Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) state all of their forecasts in terms of a made-up category which bears no meaningful relationship to how much actual oil is available for refining at any given time to meet world demand?
Climate policy – Feb 5
Polar bear arrest
No-hair-shirt solutions to global warming
Church advocates carbon fast for Lent
CEO: CO2 control leads to better business
United States – Feb 1
Military and climate spending compared
Climate, energy legislation after Bush’s SOTU
Low-income residents struggle with energy prices
Coal – Feb 1
Coal prices could double again
U.S. scraps ambitious clean-coal power plant (FutureGen)
UK firm wants carbon freedom at new coal-fired plant
Canada and U.S. – Jan 30
Heavy footprint weighs down U.S. empire
Why Cape Breton shakes in the echo of this distant boom (tarsands)
The energy efficiency option
Climate – Jan 30
Four provinces unite in emissions fight, trumping Harper’s blueprint
Climate plans by New York, Florida prod U.S
Cap and trade: THE economic fairness issue
China weather chaos a sign of things to come
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 30
Sheryl Crow’s peak oil protest song
Cheap at twice the price: sustainable fashion
Europe thinks alternatively in quest to go ‘green’
High oil prices boost energy efficiency
The Sierra Club solution
Many environmentalists and so-called “progressives” cling to dangerously naive beliefs about how to solve America’s liquid fuels problem.
