Transport – August 14
High-tech hitchhiking
General Motors VP says Australia must end oil dependence
Sweden rolling out 183 MPH high-speed green train
Renewable Energy
Food & agriculture – August 13
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
Dysfunction – August 12
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
Trash – August 12
The waste-pickers of Delhi
Junk raft raises awareness of plastics despite adversity, challenges
Recyclers are cashing in on the fortune in your bin
Largest water solar heater with PET bottles installed in Parana, Brazil
A tall, cool drink of … sewage?
Renewables – Aug 11
Military wants to lead U.S. into the green
Gulf states to harness winds of change
Giant kites to tap power of the high wind
Building affordable solar water heaters
Host of new pylons to carry UK wind farm power
German city wonders how green is too green (solar mandate)
Even giants are being hurt by rising energy prices
If we were willing – and in some cases able – to pay more for food, then some serious problems with our food system might be solved. The trouble is that along the path towards a better, more sustainable farming and energy system, there will be many casualties
ODAC Newsletter – August 8
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
United States & Canada – August 8
Changing Lanes(McCain and energy policy
Candidates’ energy plans analyzed (audio)
The true meaning of energy independence (video)
Paris for President?
Great leadership in the face of a cynical power structure
Biofuels – August 8
EPA rejects Perry plea on ethanol
Experts clash over viability of biofuels, alternative energy
Burgers or biofuel?
Transport – August 4
The problem with walk score, the possibilities of carbon goggles
Automakers race time as their cash runs low
Addiction: A million little miles per gallon
Consumer auto expert Reed: ‘panic in boardrooms’ of GM, Ford as it becomes clear electric cars ‘really coming’
Peak oil review – August 4
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Iran
– Nigeria
– China
– In the Congress
– Energy Briefs
United States – Aug 2
Paul Krugman: Can this planet be saved?
Breakaway Senate “gang” pushes drilling, conservation
Senate votes down enewable energy tax credit legislation
EPA silences employees on climate change
