Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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.
Warming could spur weed “evolution explosion”
Richest fuel global warming – poorest suffer most
What Gore hasn’t told you about global warming
Interview with Greenpeace director
Blizzards, reindeer, darkness: new Klondike is hottest place in Europe
Kunstler on The Warming
10 books on solutions for energy descent
Google hires William McDonough to design green center
Online activism 2.0: movement building
Senators Bunning, Obama push coal-to-liquids
China’s coal future
Slowing coal plants in Texas
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.
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
Reserves divided between 2 superpower blocs; war over underwater reserves?
Bush to talk tough on energy but snub Kyoto
Will new Congress change our disastrous energy policy?
An executive summary of major developments in peak oil for the year.
Regarding whether I am more or less optimistic over this past year over the local and global response to peak oil, my response is what President Bush just said in his recent speech… “We are not winning, but we are not losing”.
Global warming denial continues. The machine set in motion to deny it continues to have an impact in confusing the public. A Canadian Broadcasting Corporation documentary deconstructs the power behind the denial campaign.
The Democrats have lots of good ideas on energy and climate change – and lots of good people pushing them. Despite all this, I worry that energy policy will end up being captured by the right, because they still hold on to a major asset: their closeness to the corporate world.
