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
Renewable Energy
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
Food & agriculture – Dec 8
Economist on food: Cheap no more
Food prices climbing, with no end in sight
The garden of the future? (Forest gardens)
New film Tableland documents sustainable farming
Food Summit asks: What’ll we do when the oil runs out?
Diesel prices pick farmers’ wallets
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
Biofuels – Dec 4
Drive for ‘green’ palm oil adds to CO2 fears
Indonesia to wean off oil, but biofuel use limited
Sri Lankan ceramic firms mull firewood as alternative energy source
Energy nation – Dec 4
China releases draft energy law
Italians warned of looming energy shortfall
Vietnam to stop subsidizing oil in 2008
Wind power sets sail from crowded Germany
Renewables – Dec 3
Implications of biofuel production for US water supplies
How Africa’s desert sun can bring Europe power
Micro-wind turbines often increase CO2
Economics – Dec 3
Krugman: Innovating our way to financial crisis
Jeff Rubin: Corn for ethanol- an inflation crop
Nate Hagens: Global economy under stress
