Russia – Nov 7
Russia set to double gas prices for Georgia /
Russia reacts angrily to U.S. warnings over Baltic Sea gas pipeline /
Russia faces chilling prospect of winter short of gas
Politics
The ‘dark matter’ of American politics
The state of our physical world exerts a kind of hidden gravitational pull on the important issues of the day. And yet, to listen to the rhetoric of the most recent election campaign, you would conclude that the ecological underpinnings of our civilization are in such good condition that they require virtually no attention.
Calif. proposition 87 and biofuels – Nov 6
Venture capitalists pony up in sizzling market that may get boost from Prop. 87 /
Patzek: cellulosic ethanol will not save us /
Water scarcity may dampen case for biofuel /
Lester Brown: Exploding U.S. grain demand for auto fuel /
Harvard prof: the ethanol illusion
Synchronised thinking
Plenty of people are calling for a global effort to reduce carbon emissions, but only one group has offered a viable way of doing it writes Mark Braund.
N. America energy policy – Nov 5
Clinton stumps for Calif. prop. 87 /
American car buyers get a case of amnesia /
Canadian clips on global warming and energy
Powerdown and Permaculture – At the Cusp of Transition
Permaculture, as it has been reframed by David Holmgren, is nothing less than the design system for a post-peak society. But is the movement capable of influencing society as a whole? Or should we just head for the hills?
Peak oil – Nov 2
Tom Whipple: Virginia writes a plan /
Oil films reviewed by 4th Intl site/
New book “Energy War” by Stan Goff
Peak Oil Aware NY Governor / Lt. Governor?
Transcript of a speech by a candidate for New York State Lieutenant Governor. Polls show that the Spitzer-Paterson ticket is likely to win big next week. If so, New York state would have the first peak oil aware governor’s office in the United States.
Biofuels: A Disaster in the Making
Why is a union of NGOs, Indigenous Peoples Organizations and farmers’ movements calling for the suspension of biofuel subsidies?
Climate policy – Oct 31
“The Great Warming” – movie review /
Climate research center’s oversight up for bidding /
California: Schwarzenegger, Angelides both profess to lean green /
Scientists, American public disagree sharply over global warming /
New culprit in climate change? Try airlines
£3.68 trillion: The price of failing to act on climate change
Landmark report reveals apocalyptic cost of global warming.
Britons face the prospect of a welter of new green taxes to tackle climate change, as the most authoritative report on global warming warns it will cost the world up to £3.68 trillion unless it is tackled within a decade.
Climate’s last chance
With a world facing as grave a threat as it faced in 1938, [Australian PM] John Howard is quickly becoming the Chamberlain of the chequebook, while a climate-change Churchill is nowhere to be seen in Australian politics. I sincerely hope I’m wrong, because this Government and the one that follows it may well be the last in Australian history to have the chance to avert a climate disaster.
