North America – March 10
California: the energy miser?
Canada to be top oil supplier to US for 20 yrs
Green guru from California helped sway Campbell in B.C.
Nader elected
Energy Policy
Europe – March 9
EU agrees to reduce carbon emissions by 20%
Split on nuclear power threatens climate agreement
Europe takes lead in fighting climate change
German cars need to go green
UK’s Milibrand on energy security and climate change
Far-right BNP: Going “Green” – thinking beyond Peak Oil!
Energy Policy – Mar 8
Chinese Premier vows targets must be met
Chinese Academy of Sciences on energy sources
Guardian: Giving up oil
Standard inertia from US Energy Department
Renewable energy fight likely to set EU summit mood
Peak oil task force in Portland releases report
The report’s key recommendation is that Portland take action to reduce fossil fuel use by half over the next 25 years. The report finds the best path to this goal is in accelerating current initiatives such as high-density planning and zoning, public transportation and acquiring electricity from renewable resources
How to change the world in 10 easy steps
Because I am not a nice girl, or maybe not merely a nice girl, I feel that I should point out that the peak oil movement and the climate change movement are losing the race to plan the future, and to a large degree it is because we are refusing to be practical, also known as Machiavellian. Like all high minded people, we’re getting our asses kicked by the low-minded ones.
Climate – March 4
Parbo criticises climate change reports
The Flannery verdict
Evangelical’s focus on climate draws fire of Christian Right
Hansen offers options
Channel 4 has got it wrong over climate change
The carbon folly: emissions trading
Solutions & sustainability – March 4
Getting over the cash and carry mentality
Bruce Sterling: My dot-green future is here
Activist hopes Missoula can break free from petroleum’s yoke
My Purim-spiel
Energy policy – March 4
Car-addicted Italians lag Europe on environment
B.C. energy plan pushes conservation, technology
China targets 9 countries for oil investment
Five questions for the 21st Century
“Matthew Simmons, a distinguished petroleum investor who is no liberal Democrat tree-hugger like me, he is one of the Bush family’s close friends. He’s a conservative Republican. He says we have 35 years of recoverable oil left.”
U.S. – March 3
“Don’t build it and they will come”: new paradigm in the evolving West
US predicts steady increase for GHG emissions
Coal in cars: great fuel or climate foe?
U.S. – March 2
GAO: Govt routinely misses energy deadlines
Congressional hearing actually makes progress on energy (“Mr. Peak Oil”)
Help needed to draft U.S. energy proposals
Seattle’s
Nickels warns U.S. Senate to not rein in cities fighting global warming
House Democrats unveil new energy plan
Peak oil – March 2
TOD: Saudi Arabian oil declines 8% in 2006
Brunei thinking about life after the peak
Texas oilman Pickens says global oil production at its peak
