Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Energy secretary pick argues for new fuel sources
A Past President’s Advice to Obama: Act With Haste
Obama starts filling energy team
Hurdles, opportunities for ‘green’ stimulus
Browner to get the nod as Obama’s top energy and climate adviser
Christine Todd Whitman talks about greening the GOP and running the EPA
Climate change experts ‘lose faith’ in renewable technology
Solar’s future doesn’t look quite so sunny
Floating Offshore Wind Power
Indonesia: New energy scheme not a load of bull
Sweet Answer to a Fuel Problem
Energy, Climate Change, and Complexity in Healthcare
A Resilient Suburbia 4: Accounting for the Value of Decentralization
The Final Garnaut Report; A Radical Critique of its Energy Assumptions
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?
A weekly digest from a UK perspective.
