Blair’s blooper on air travel
Blair, Monday: I’m not offsetting carbon. Blair, yesterday: Er, I’ve had a rethink
Tony Juniper: sins of emission
Energy Policy
Climate – Jan 10
U.S. agency [finally] affirms human influence on climate
2006 is hottest year on record in U.S.
Professor Sir David King on climate change
Do carbon offsets live up to their promise?
California’s bold move on global warming
Review: Mark Jaccard’s Sustainable Fossil Fuels
His “endurance” criterion is flawed in that it focuses on endurance of the energy system, not ecosystems. “…clean energy – whether relying on fossil fuels or some other option – does not ensure a sustainable human presence on earth…”
The peak oil crisis: a memorandum for the board
Oil depletion will not take place in a local vacuum. All levels of government and all international organizations will be involved. However the buck stops with the local governments which actually provide most of the services that will be needed to sustain society.
The rise of “the Axis of Oil”— big trouble for the U.S.
This morning the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources launched its New Year with an unusual hearing into “The Geopolitics of Oil.” There was an almost palpable sense of graveness and alarm that lent a chill to the room.
Climate – Jan 9
Warming could spur weed “evolution explosion”
Richest fuel global warming – poorest suffer most
What Gore hasn’t told you about global warming
China – Jan 9
China pushes ‘Green GDP’ – officials unsure
Confusion over energy (biofuels)
China’s coal future (part 2)
Energy consumption – Jan 8
Clean air vs. TV in poor India villages
Japan:
the land of rising conservation
Taking control of electric bill, hour by hour
E. Europe: Open windows in winter
Colorado’s electricity infrastructure needs jump-start
Profile: Energy Bulletin
Energy Bulletin, like the Post Carbon Institute and much of the broader peak oil movement, is based on a much more useful and accurate foundation than the assumptions underlying most corporate media and government planning discourses — who generally take as a given continuing growth in access to energy.
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 5
The turning of the worm [soil]
Toward energy self-sufficiency
Why educating girls pays off more
New initiative to deglobalize economy of SF Bay Area
Poor face bigger disservice than higher taxes on autos
To paraphrase my late father: Use your brains. The nation that is ignoring the poor now, when there is fuel to be had, will be even less inclined to pay attention to them if there is too little fuel available for everybody’s transportation and life-support needs.
U.S. energy policy – Jan 5
Democrats want to shift oil tax, give to green energy
Oil group blasts Democrats’ tax agenda
Interview: California environmental adviser Tamminen
Alternative-energy spending fizzles out
