U.S. – Jan 15
Saudi Arabia’s oil? Responsibility trumps sovereign rights!
Officials covered up oil lease problems, IG says
Euro displaces dollar in bond markets
Has globalization passed its peak?
Energy Policy
Is energo-fascism in your future?
Energo-fascism will, in time, affect nearly every person on the planet. Either we will be compelled to participate in or finance foreign wars to secure vital supplies of energy…; or we will be at the mercy of those who control the energy spigot… ; or sooner or later we may find ourselves under constant state surveillance, lest we consume more than our allotted share of fuel or engage in illicit energy transactions. [excerpts]
Unified green field theory
Every green group, of every stripe, should be focused like a laser on energy and climate change. Policymakers should be hearing one voice, talking about one thing, from every side. It’s time for a coordinated push.
Climate – Jan 15
Nature on air travel and global warming
Connecting the global warming dots
EU eyes climate, energy in new China talks
WEF: global risks outpacing the ability to mitigate them
Climate – Jan 14
Tory wants domestic flights to be taxed out of existence
Tony Blair’s carbon footprints (700 times the GHGs of the average Briton)
New book: Hell and High Water
Climate action – Jan 13
Two days in climate warrior boot camp
Lloyd’s boss demands action on climate
McKibben: Step it up (DIY mass protest)
Warming of mass destruction (animation)
Energy policies – Jan 13
Unified green field theory (talking points)
Big Coal’s dirty move (Rolling Stone)
A new energy policy for Europe
The EU energy plan – and its coverage
Peak oil – Jan 13
Energy and China – asking inconvenient questions
Climate and the coming energy crisis – grow your own conference
Strange & stranger – politics shifts greenward
Tories push for 80% carbon emissions cut
Schwarzenegger blurs political lines
Canada’s NDP plots to out-green its rivals
Stay-at-home Brown reveals his green credentials
“Be Prepared!” – investment advisor goes survivalist
Investing in ethanol
From a national security standpoint, large-scale ethanol production from corn will not make the nation more secure in any measurable way. It will certainly destabilize the nation’s food supply and disrupt traditional export patterns.
U.S. energy – Jan 11
Sen. committee hearing: geopolitics of oil (video)
Oil keeps U.S. vulnerable, lawmakers told
Green gripe with Obama: liquefied coal is still…coal
Alaska energy czar: Bush must look beyond diesel
Climate policy – Jan 11
Call for 20% EU cut in GHGs
We have a bit of a PR problem on global warming, ExxonMobil admits
Swiss Re issues global risks 2007 report
