Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Barack Obama selects Biden as his running mate (Biden’s energy positions)
Energy politics proving difficult to master
‘A whole new world’: oil and Alaska
Xcel takes unusual step to shut down coal power plants
Pickens’ plan and California’s Proposition 10
Californians wary of costs of going green: survey
The Dean of Dung is Back – and Full of Gas!
Bloomberg offers windmill power plan
New York Mayor sees conservation as main path to energy savings
Golden image of corn-based ethanol shows some erosion
Oil’s Washington juggernaut
Pump primed for fall fight on energy
Is T. Boone Pickens right?
There will be Boone
House of Lords suggests lifting VAT from cost of repairing electrical goods
Plan for anaerobic digesters in every town to recycle leftovers
Revealed: the massive scale of UK’s water consumption
Starting tomorrow The Economist Online Debate Series is starting a two-week long online, Oxford-style debate on solving the world’s energy crisis. Readers are invited to participate.
Waste-to-energy plants a waste of energy, recycling advocates say
Renewable power’s growth in Colorado presages national debate
Michael Vickerman on feed-in tariffs (audio)
Friedman on McCain & renewables: 8 strikes and you’re out
Colbert on offshore drilling
Raleigh county mountain at center of coal vs. wind debate
Beware the energy hot air (the Pickens plan)
Woolsey on T Boone Pickens
API: Oil demand at 5-year low
Windfall tax lets Alaska rake in billions from Big Oil
Do it ALL for energy?
Is the end of a cheap fossil fuel era at hand? How will we make the transition from a world dependent on hydrocarbon energy to one powered by a mix of hydrocarbons and renewable energy, and can we profit from this coming shift? Answers to these questions are found in a new book by Brian Hicks and Chris Nelder.
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
High-tech hitchhiking
General Motors VP says Australia must end oil dependence
Sweden rolling out 183 MPH high-speed green train
Organic garden takes over San Francisco’s City Hall lawn
NPR misses real story, plants wrong seeds
A solar success on the farm
The curse of Yemen – qat
Alternative trade networks and the coffee system
Feeling the heat of food security
Brazilian agriculture faces huge losses from climate change
Mad cows (and livid lambs)
China and India: heartlands of global protest
Outside U.S., credit cards tighten grip
Local scientist splits water, saves world, gets on TV
