Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Because I am not a nice girl, or maybe not merely a nice girl, I feel that I should point out that the peak oil movement and the climate change movement are losing the race to plan the future, and to a large degree it is because we are refusing to be practical, also known as Machiavellian. Like all high minded people, we’re getting our asses kicked by the low-minded ones.
As concerns mount about climate change, getting new coal-fired plants built is harder than ever for US businesses.
“Matthew Simmons, a distinguished petroleum investor who is no liberal Democrat tree-hugger like me, he is one of the Bush family’s close friends. He’s a conservative Republican. He says we have 35 years of recoverable oil left.”
“Don’t build it and they will come”: new paradigm in the evolving West
US predicts steady increase for GHG emissions
Coal in cars: great fuel or climate foe?
GAO: Govt routinely misses energy deadlines
Congressional hearing actually makes progress on energy (“Mr. Peak Oil”)
Help needed to draft U.S. energy proposals
Seattle’s
Nickels warns U.S. Senate to not rein in cities fighting global warming
House Democrats unveil new energy plan
As we approach the peak of world oil production, and proposed solutions proliferate, the social momentum of the industrial world moves the other way. The connection between the two sides of this paradox may be closer than it appears.
Kretzmann: New stirrings & targets for activism
Julian Darley: “Relocalize now!”
Astyk: All the news [& what to do about it]
Green tech: Silicon Valley’s new bubble?
Top five US cities for Cleantech
A draft US Government Accountability Office report finds that, though it is difficult to assess whether the world has reached “peak oil,” a large number of experts surveyed for the report believe the world may have reached the peak for conventional petroleum supplies, said Representative Roscoe Bartlett, Republican-Maryland. [excerpts]
U.S. ‘stuck in reverse’ on fuel economy
Put the ‘public’ back in public transport
Car mpg ratings going down
Seattle-L.A. train nation’s worst for on-time arrivals
A detailed plan to slash London’s carbon emissions by 60% within 20 years and place the city at the forefront of the battle against climate change will be announced by Mayor Ken Livingstone.
Energy association calls for carbon emissions trading scheme
For farmers, money does grow on trees
Call for renewable energy taskforce
Behind the climate curve in Australia
Miner attacks conservationists
“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.”
