United States – Dec 19
Newt Gingrich: Red staters must turn green
Green gains momentum on military bases
A very green year
Former coal exec tapped for DOE seat
Former Calif EPA Director calls for tobacco-like lawsuits against petroleum giants
Politics
Economics – Dec 18
Kunstler: Failure beyond finance
Krugman: After the money’s gone
Consensus is moving towards how severe the hard landing (recession) will be
Peak oil and portfolio prudence
Congressional report: Rich are getting richer faster, much faster
WTO director: “Capitalism cannot satisfy us”
U.S. climate policy – Dec 13
Congressional study finds White House manipulated climate science
Judge says California can regulate greenhouse gases from cars
Proposal for $600 million center to coordinate energy, climate research in California
Al Gore Nobel Prize speech
CBS asks candidates about global warming
Bali climate conference – Dec 13
U.S. prevails on climate draft, squelches targets
Canada tries to stop declaration on GHG reduction
Rich, poor countries at odds
Hard choices on climate can wait for next president: Bush aides
Poor hit hardest by climate change
Paying other nations to be green
Beyond the point of no return
It’s too late to stop climate change, argues long-time journalist Ross Gelbspan — so what do we do now?
Strategizing on the transition to organic agriculture
Astyk’s law: “Top-down strategies must be concurrent with and redundant to bottom-up strategies.”
Russia: note to presidential candidates
U.S. policy on Russia currently amounts to this: “You hurt my feelings.” It would be better to focus on issues, and the main one is energy, the foundation of Russian — and Putin’s — power.
Solvitur Ambulando
Proposals for dealing with the onset of peak oil often focus on large-scale, ideologically defined solutions. A more modest piecemeal approach may offer more options in the unpredictable future ahead of us.
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.”
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.
Geopolitics – Dec 4
Behind Chavez’s defeat in Venezuela
The limits of 21st-century revolutions
Hugo – neither satan nor saviour
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
