Europe – July 10
Has fossil fuel consumption within the EU peaked?
Why Europe backpedals on biofuel targets
Boris Johnson scraps congestion charge for 4×4 vehicles
Britain teeters on brink of recession as companies cut back
Renewable Energy
Renewables – July 10
Decoding the world’s best Energy policies
Roundtable discussion: Outlook for renewable energy (podcast)
Ray Brady at BLM on “solar rights-of-way (video)
Africa – July 9
Gambia: Biofuel – A ploy, says President Jammeh
Nigeria: Yar’Adua seeks concerted efforts against trade in stolen oil
Nigeria: Nationwide blackout: PHCN begins power rationing today
United States & Canada – July 9
Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens wants to supplant oil with wind
Is it safe now to admit Jimmy Carter was right?
Oilsands image fight targets U.S. politicians
Labour’s plan for dealing with high energy prices
Ex-EPA aide tells of White House censorship
In energy, there are no easy answers
Biofuels – July 9
Bad juice: World Bank blames biofuels for high food prices
Bad juice II: biofuels maybe not quite so bad, World Bank says
Rising food prices: policy options and World Bank response
China’s renewable energy plans: shaken, not stirred
The May 12th earthquake in western China’s Sichuan Province will have effects reaching further outside China than Beijing is letting on. Sichuan Province holds the key to China’s hydroelectric power generation plans in its renewable power targets and the area is also a hub for worldwide outsourced wind turbine equipment. Both were badly damaged.
Solutions & sustainability – July 8
Should you dress down to beat the heat?
Over 1,000 participants in Biofuel Cities European Partnership
Energy guru offers Exmouth self-sufficiency blueprint
United States – July 7
America’s middle-class collapse
Carolyn Baker: I think I saw Tom Paine on the 4th of July
Storm over Cape Cod (wind farm fight)
Biofuels – July 7
Time to put the brakes on biofuels
Oxfam report: Biofuel policies deepening poverty and accelerating climate change
Secret report: Biofuels upped food price
United States – July 4
U.S. lifts moratorium on new solar projects
Naomi Klein: Disaster capitalism (Iraq oil)
Houston, we have a solution – wind power
Biofuels & renewables – July 2
Jatropha takes root in Santa Barbara
Weather risks cloud promise of biofuel
Financing energy independence
Path to Freedom – Living a simple, yet sustainable life
With headlines about rising food costs, soaring gas prices, and skyrocketing foreclosure rates that reach directly into everyone’s wallets, as well as sobering reports about the state of the earth’s environment, there is mounting pressure for some relief. The question arises: How can an individual or one family cope in such trying times?
