Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Moscow switching to energy-saving light bulbs – a long way yet to go
Fuel price hike sounds death knell in Zimbabwe
U.S. military: Oil free by 2050?
China aims to diversify oil sources
Energy’s role in Europe’s trade deficits
Stern urges China, U.S. to talk on warming
The UK of North America
An Inconvenient Truth now available online
Tom Tomorrow: Scientists not to be trusted
“The Golden Age of cheap energy has passed. Competition for energy supplies will dominate the economic landscape during the next 30 years… The prospect, apparent or real, of the peak production of oil during the timeframe out to 2035 and progressive diminution of output thereafter will intensify competition for remaining resources.”
Emirates, MIT team up for green energy
Global warming worries to boost renewables
Toronto asleep at cleantech switch
Oil-hungry Japan looks to other sources
Krugman: California and colorless green ideas
Congress to evaluate carbon taxes
Five governors agree to work on climate
Global warming? Never heard of it, not my fault
Review of Monbiot’s “Heat”
British Columbia and the climate race
Calif. Democrats unveil global warming bill
British Columbia: Analysts respond to green throne speech
Interview with Tony Juniper, executive director of Friends of the Earth UK, and a seasoned environmental campaigner.
Lakes beneath Antarctic ice sheets initiate and sustain flow of ice to ocean
Great forests hold fateful role in climate
Carbon offsets ‘harm environment’
Where Bush would steer energy R&D
Grist interviews Vilsack on energy
Bush asked to help states fund heating fuel aid
Carbon offsets ‘harm environment’
As earth warms, lawsuits mount
How fast must we act on global warming?
Corporate titans launch new climate campaign
A battle over the costs of global warming
Much of the rhetoric of today’s faith in progress focuses on the distinction between current scientific modes of thought and the magical thinking of other societies. The distinction is real, but Peak Oil points up unexpected roles played by both kinds of thinking in the predicament of industrial society.
‘Energy-rich’ B.C. could be self-sufficient in 20 years
Global warming demands local fixes
An environmentalist in the White House – what are you doing here?
