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The American Petroleum Institute have funded a survey that reportedly shows a “fundamental lack of knowledge regarding energy demand and supplies”. Closer inspection suggests a distinct agenda behind the obvious flaws in the APIs twenty questions.
Clear explanation of peak oil from “Gail the Actuary.”
America could do with a few feral beasts
Investigative journalism and the Washington elite
Moyers on Murdoch
Dems’ plan on energy tilts (pale) green
California no longer leading on wind energy
Conservative think-tank calls for walloping carbon fee
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil and Gas (APPGOPO) has been formed, ensuring that the issue of declining global oil supplies will feature much more prominently in Parliament.
This is your brain on politics
Gore faces public clamour to run
Tory environmentalist Zac Goldsmith
Slate: The great corn con: the Senate’s preposterous new ethanol bill
Tapping green alternatives in Oman
Beware the spectre in the fireplace
Ethanolics Anonymous
At least one prominent person in the peak oil movement says he can no longer justify attending overseas conferences because of the energy used and the greenhouse gases emitted. And yet, to forego travel and modern methods of communication altogether would be to engage in unilateral disarmament.
The Oil Drum challenge: What you can do now to change federal energy policy
Democrats move focus from drilling to conservation in new energy bill
New study: Americans skeptical about cap-and-trade
EU rules threaten Transylvanian shepherds
Milk moves from bottles to the bag
San Francisco says no to bottled water
Ag policy as if people mattered
It is starting to look as if we are going to arrive at the precipice of oil depletion without Congress having done much of anything to mitigate the situation.
Colin Fletcher, backpacking trailblazer, dies
A wiser Earth movement (Paul Hawken)
Debating energy as if communities mattered
Archdruid envisions the future:
Adam’s Story
Sharon Astyk interview
