Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Twenty years ago this month, I interviewed Marion King Hubbert at his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Hubbert was a brilliant and opinionated man. If he were alive, he would no doubt be fascinated by the quadrupling in oil prices and the increasingly vigorous discussion of peak oil.
Synthetic life for creating fuel from CO2 feedstock
Poppy power – biodiesel not opium
Bacteria produces oil – side effects?
Biofuel boom threatens food supplies: Nestle
China, not Tibet, comes first for Asian states
China unveils renewable energy development plan
Water will be source of war unless world acts now, warns UK minister
They paved paradise and put up … a power source
Banana methane powered cars, pig poo power
Salt could shake up world energy supply
Peak oil update in the format of a downloadable presentation with comments. Major themes:
– The US oil story
– The world oil story
– Five myths
Barbara Ehrenreich: Fall of the American consumer
Army to turn trash into power in Iraq
U.S. may protect Canada oilsands
from new standards
Solar power station lift-off in Adelaide
Pollution called a byproduct of a ‘clean’ fuel
Corn-based ethanol could worsen “dead zone”
Bartlett’s 39th address to Congress on peak oil. Video available.
CERA’s Yergin says renewables get competitive
Turning glare into watts (solar thermal)
Australia: Coalition goes cool on nuclear
Wind is not the enemy of nuclear
Wave-power proposals alarm locals
From geeks to greens
Bush: America must ‘get off oil’
Bartlett pounces on hydrogen claims
William F. Buckley on $100 oil
Agriculture’s new ‘golden age’
King of soya: environmental vandal or saviour of the world’s poor?
My forbidden fruits (and vegetables)
South Africa electricity crisis – and farmers
Okla. fight over poultry waste escalates
NYT on food: Priced out of the market
In hungry Zimbabwe, pet food as a priority
Shallow water ahead for Panama Canal
Booming growth raises idea of dams
Water to be the next commoditised resource
Yemen sleepwalks into water nightmare
