Australia – Apr 14
Contraction & Convergence proposed in Australian Senate
‘Dammed if we do’ – Traveston dam
Coal to liquids in Australia
Food vs fuel
Renewable Energy
Renewables – Apr 11
The energy scene in India
Renewable energy not always sustainable (Latin America)
Iceland has power to burn
Renewable energy jobs soar in Germany
Food & agriculture – Apr 11
NYT editorial: The world food crisis
Starving Haitians riot as food prices soar
We’ll reap what we sow (US farm bill)
As prices rise, farmers spurn conservation program
Energy industries – Apr 8
The lost decade – pessimism about oil technology
The natural gas storage cycle
Platts: Depletion of oil reserves outpaces new production
Biofuels lifecycle assessment,
Perils of the green life – Apr 6
Recyclers suffer from clutter
Are you a cloth bag snob?
Living off the fat of the land: grease theft
Cheap solar panels and dodgy installations
The peak oil crisis: the transition
While waiting for the price of gasoline to get so high that we can’t afford to drive anymore, there is still some time to ponder just how the great paradigm shift of the 21st century is going to work out.
Greenish ways – Apr 3
Solar thermal power – Big Gav’s info round-up
Put oil companies to work on geothermal
Businesses to spend $600 billion on ‘green accounting’
Biofuels and climate – Apr 2
Guardian: An unsustainable scam
Norway forests to double bioenergy output
Specially-designed soils could help combat climate change
World Bank climate profiteering
Net energy and Jevons’ Paradox
Discussions of net energy often miss the energy costs of distributing energy and putting it to its end use. These systems costs pose a major challenge to some proposed alternative energy sources, but they also offer support for an old but neglected response to today’s energy predicament.
US and UK – Apr 1
Why the US is doomed to be an energy outlaw
Britain seeks loophole in Green Energy targets; nuclear looms
Demands for crackdown on biofuels scam (‘splash and dash’ loophole)
Congress has big questions for Big Oil
West heating twice as fast as rest of world
Renewables – Mar 30
Amping up solar power in Southern California
New Calif 250MW photovoltaic initiative
Time:
The clean energy scam
Wind power breaks records in Spain
Activists do it locally – Mar 30
Denmark embraces a clean green dream
Vermont takes a baby step
Portland (Maine) – roadmap to sustainability
