China – Jan 4
China looks to coal bed methane
Chinese shrug off $100 oil
Mao’s home province goes green
Neighbors wary of China’s Three Gorges dam
Renewable Energy
Renewables – Jan 4
Wafer-thin solar cells brings green power closer
New energy uses for asphalt
Shell, Biopetroleum to build algae plant
Europe’s biodiesel drive sputters
Burning biofuels may be worse than coal and oil, say experts
Peak oil community – Jan 2
January ASPO Newsletter
The Oil Drum year in review
Robert Rapier’s top 10 energy stories
Draft of “Net Oil Export” paper – comments?
Deep thought – Dec 20
My ancestral carbon footprint (England)
Charlie Hall’s balloon graph – no smooth transition to post-peak
Hostility to the notion of limits to growth
Bags packed for doomsday (NZ)
Biofuels – Dec 20
Converting chicken fat into biodiesel
Trouble brewing (beer hit by biofuels)
Plant cover in Haiti at 2 percent
The price of biofuels
United States – Dec 19
Newt Gingrich: Red staters must turn green
Green gains momentum on military bases
A very green year
Former coal exec tapped for DOE seat
Former Calif EPA Director calls for tobacco-like lawsuits against petroleum giants
Biofuels – Dec 19
Rep. Bartlett votes against ethanol mandate
As ethanol takes its first steps, Congress proposes a giant leap
Food and fuel compete for land
MIT: The price of biofuels
US corn boom threatens sea life
Peak soil + peak oil = peak spoils
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 18
Energetic students empower Cal Poly
Peak-proof music
Ted Trainer’s Transition Q&A
You’d better (not) shop around
Bottled water boycotts: Back-to-the-tap movement
Food & agriculture – Dec 18
Michael Pollan: Our decrepit food factories
Worrisome forecast for the world’s crops
Astyk: The price of things: a future agriculture
Newsweek: Food vs. fuel
How much food can I grow around my house?
Future of food in the Kootenays (conference)
The widening chasm on energy
Proponents of the House-passed energy bill have called it a “down payment” on a climate change strategy. But that “down payment” is now in jeopardy.
Renewables – Dec 12
WSJ: A young tinkerer builds a windmill, electrifying a nation
CERA co-founder points to opportunities in green efforts
Airborne wind turbines
Big Oil lets sun set on renewables
Peak oil – Dec 8
Did an oil-company CEO just endorse peak-oil?
Satellite images contradict Saudi peak oil theory : Bernstein Research
Peak oil reading group
Expect to be buffeted by oil price uncertainty
Nate Hagens: Fantasies for replacing fossil fuels
Panelists discuss climate changes, peak oil: ‘Kill your lawn’
Peak oil and global warming inextricably linked
