Green Party in Massachusetts takes stand on peak oil
Two closely related crises of immense proportions are breaking upon the world: “climate change” and “peak oil.” Together we can call them the “fossil fuel crisis.”
Energy Policy
Open letter to Kevin Rudd, Australia’s new Prime Minister
The newly elected PM is taking over at a time of looming economic crisis due to Peak Oil. An Australian engineer describes the problem and outlines the steps he thinks are required.
Energy nation – Dec 4
China releases draft energy law
Italians warned of looming energy shortfall
Vietnam to stop subsidizing oil in 2008
Wind power sets sail from crowded Germany
United States – Dec 4
Tension over oil at the edge of Alaska
Auto industry backs CAFÉ deal
Lawmakers to raise fuel efficiency
The candidates on energy
New push for ‘green collar’ jobs
Petrodollar greenfare
The Finance Round-Up
Australia and climate – Dec 4
Rudd’s warm Kyoto reception
The global warming battle: united we stand, divided we fall
Australia signs up to Kyoto deal to end 10-year exile
Climate campaigner’s road from ‘raving idiot’ to Australian of the year
Climate policy – Dec 4
Der Spiegel: US seeks alliance with China and India to block climate protection
Canadian government hiding damaging climate report: critics
Air travel and Bali climate conference
China, India urged to curb energy use
Environmental group claims responsibility for bogus USCAP release
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 4
Practical tools to grow an intentional community
Permaculture pathways to a low carbon future
O.U.R. ecovillage
United States and Canada – Dec 2
Deal reached on fuel economy standards
Can solving global warming save our economy?
Mr. Harper’s cold comfort for Canadians
Oil Scrooge boosts costs for shipping
Mindful eating crusader to take top US nutrition post
Post Kyoto: the state of Denmark
Denmark prides itself of some small contribution to life after peak oil. The year 2001 brought an end to this, however. But with the November 2007 election, environmental policy has once again been put in forward gear.
Capturing the energy opportunity: creating a low-carbon economy
Energy platfrom from a liberal think tank proposing to “1) Grow our economy through the transformation to a low-carbon economy 2) Recreate a ladder of economic mobility.”
Climate – Dec 1
Rudd Kyoto promise pleases business
Asia faces “unprecedented” water crisis
A fifth of UN carbon credits may be bogus
Stern: Climate change a ‘market failure’
“People want to protect themselves a little bit” (study of climate denial)
Living the diesel shortages in China
Trucks are lining up in their hundreds at three stations in Chongqing, China, in the hopes of getting 40 litres of fuel. In this city of 10 million, only those three are still selling diesel. This may be an economics-induced dress rehearsal of the reality that will face the rest of the world in the post-peak oil universe.
