Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
A university near where I live plans to add a short unit on “Petroleum and Peak Oil” to their Science 1101 course for freshman who are not science majors. The university asked me to prepare materials for the unit. (Draft)
Big business: climate ‘very low on agenda’
Making 2010 Winter Games carbon neutral
Everything’s Cool: a real-life disaster movie
Academia moving fast enough on climate change?
Europe plans revamp of carbon trading
Businesses want a say in global-warming bill
Photojournalist Braasch gives first-hand account of warming’s impact
Congress expects cellulosic ethanol to fulfill the renewable fuels requirement. Catering to an uninformed public, our politicians have laid out a road map for failure. Cellulosic ethanol is not a silver bullet that solves America’s oil dependency.
A political speech the West needs to hear
US censors Arctic scientists’ findings as it prepares for oil and gas auction
U.S. oil dependencies (Spiegelman cartoon)
Energy tax incentives for economic stimulus package
Discussion of global warming seldom makes any connection between the ecology of temperature change and pending fuel shortages. This is a really bad error.
China has leapfrogged to where we in the West will be within a decade: using coal to power our economies and cities as conventional worldwide oil production continues to decline.
FTC asks if carbon-offset money is well spent
Global warming ‘changing world economy’
Worldwatch’s Prugh discusses 2007 trends
California joins EU in airline CO2 caps
Alex Steffen: 350 ppm
Bert Bolin, 82, is dead; led UN climate panel
Earth Atmospheric Trust: A system to control climate change and reduce poverty
NY Times: The one environmental issue
Global warming goes to court
Morgan Freeman on the end of oil
In Bush’s final year, the agenda gets greener
Environment gets unprecedented focus during campaign
Financial Times cautiously opening to peak oil
Think again, Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran!
Robert Hirsch: What is peak oil?
NASA scientist on PO and climate
Australia’s CSIRO willing to look at oil vulnerability?
Bill McKibben: ‘Remember this: 350 parts per million’
Cap and trade: why grandfathering sucks
Geo-engineering- a debate whose time has gone
India: The poverty of the rich
UK to assess climate cost of all decisions
