Climate – Aug 2
Climate protest at Heathrow airport may face “the mother of all injunctions”
Brazil, alarmed, reconsiders policy on climate change
Warming of glaciers threatens millions in China
Renewable Energy
Biofuels – Aug 1
Book Review: Alcohol Can Be a Gas! Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century
Ethanol sugarcane threatens Brazil’s wooded savanna
F William Engdahl: The great biofuel fraud
Rolling Stone: Ethanol scam
Biofuels – July 31
David Blume’s Alcohol Can Be A Gas book
LS9 promises ‘renewable petroleum’
Poison plant could help to cure the planet
The ethanol effect
Renewables – July 27
Robert Rapier: The future is solar
Is IBM going solar?
Biogenic methane?
Biofuels – July 27
The unintended consequences of the ethanol quick fix
Struggles between Big Oil, ethanol industry
A dark side to the ethanol boom?
Biofuels – July 26
Buy feed corn: They’re about to stop making it
One-tenth of Scotland’s farmland earmarked by power firm
Pa. biodiesel producers struggle to stay alive
Energy policy – July 26
IEA’s Mandill: Industry can substantially save energy and reduce CO2 emissions
Nigeria: rich in oil, dependent on firewood
Renewable energy projects will devour huge amounts of land, warns researcher
More peak oil – July 26
UK energy security
Canada TOD Round-Up
The world at $100 a barrel – peak oil?
Council on Foreign Relations: Reading oil’s tea leaves
Science: Even oil optimists expect energy demand to outstrip supply
Canada energy round-up
Renewables – July 21
A German city’s long focus on the sun
Solar ovens- even in foggy San Francisco
Photovoltaic for Australia
Arizona shouldn’t waste public money on impractical PV cells
Biofuels – July 20
Should it matter where your biodiesel comes from?
Ethanol fuels global run-up in food prices
Corn biofuel ‘dangerously oversold’
Report pooh-poohs corn biofuels
Transport – July 19
BREAKING: New York City’s traffic fee plan wins state OK
What drives quality of life for seniors? Driving
Flying high on pond scum
Agrofuels – Towards a reality check in nine key areas
The rush for ‘biofuels’ is already causing serious damage. Far from being sustainable, the spread of what are more accurately called ‘agrofuels’ – liquid fuels produced from biomass grown in large-scale monocultures – is compromising biodiversity and fuelling human rights violations.
