Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Obama Pledges Public Works on a Vast Scale
Obama’s Energy-Environment Team Likely To Be Named Next
Obama meeting with Gore raises eyebrows
Oil, Copper Advance After Obama Promises Public Works Spending
Do expansive federal bailout plans doom Americans to an inflationary future?
Carbon: The Biochar Solution
Going hungry in the 21st century
Seawater holds key to future food
The hidden cost of our growing taste for meat
Plan for tax on cow gas stinks, US farmers say
A weekly digest from a UK perspective.
Energy Department, change is coming
Obama quietly drops windfall tax proposal
A sad day for Canada
Our continued national dependence on fossil fuels is creating a crippling vulnerability to both long-term fuel scarcity and catastrophic climate change.
The current economic crisis requires substantial national policy shifts and enormous new government injections of capital into the economy. This provides an opportunity for a project whose scope would otherwise be inconceivable: a large-scale, coordinated energy transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy.
Despite daunting challenges, companies throughout the world are deploying technology to harness the power of waves and tides. These projects, just now beginning to produce electricity, are on the edge of renewable energy’s latest frontier: hydrodynamic power.
After an oil peak, pressure will increase to cut trees to serve as fuel for heating and cooking fires, as well as to clear land for agriculture. Many other countries who have faced this pressure have become bleak places prone to soil erosion, mudslides, dust storms and finally, desertification.
NYT: A world of a different color (horsepower)
Headlights burn more fuel?
The end of the road for hydrogen?
Big Gav: Low temperature geothermal power
Villaraigosa unveils solar plan for Los Angeles
Vatican set to go green with huge solar panel roof
Edible playgrounds and political vegetables
Getting to know your local farmer
Ben Gisin of Touch the Soil magazine
Biofuels push Ethiopian farmers to food aid
Acid soils in Slovakia tell somber tale
A weekly digest from a UK perspective.
Could a hyperactive hamster power your house?
Problems Plague U.S. Flex-Fuel Fleet
Fuel from food? The feast is over
Solar towers will harness sunshine of southern Spain
