Ethanol & renewables – Oct 12
St Louis renewable energy conference (day 1)
Report: Brazilian ethanol is sustainable
The trouble with ethanol (Patzek)
The ethanol alternative (ABC)
Oil Giants put energy Into other resources
Renewable Energy
Hubbert’s Defense Department
The U.S. military machine is built on and around cheap and available “mobility fuel,” and virtually its entire body of doctrine is founded on pre-Peak Oil thinking. If the world is at or fast approaching a state of Peak Oil, where does that leave us?
Transport – Oct 10
High oil prices clip travellers’ wings
Military wants a fuel-efficient Humvee
Behold, the bus of the future
Assessing GM’s fuel cell strategy
Yachts are getting bigger
Forest roads crumble
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 9
Downtown Revitalization Rules
China releases green accounting study
Faith, Hope, and Clarity: God & the Environment
Video: Stick a Yellow Ribbon up Your SUV
Peak Oil – Oct 5
It starts to look like a plateau
Yet another ‘inconvenient truth’
HK Kunstler – Making Other Arrangements
David Korten: The Great Turning
Solutions and sustainability – Oct 2
Dialogue tools and processes for social change
Wind turbines and solar panels in UK DIY stores
Green is the colour of spin
Peak Oil Video Conferencing challenges Airline emissions
Iranian Science Teachers May Be Enriching Students
Ethanol from Brazil and the USA
Brazilian success with its ethanol from sugar cane has been cited as an example of how the USA could get free from its oil imports by substituting ethanol for gasoline. But comparing USA ethanol from corn with Brazilian ethanol from sugar cane is like comparing mangoes and apples.
MIT: A dangerous energy climate
Panelists at the Emerging Technologies Conference voiced an urgent need for aggressive policies to promote energy efficiency, renewable power sources, and carbon sequestration.
Renewables – Sept 28
WorldWatch/CAP report on renewables
Schizophrenic biofuels section in otherwise good report
The pied piper of ethanol
The ascent of wind power
Biofuels – Sept 27
Jatropha fuelled car tours Indonesia
France prepares for post-oil fuels
Uganda to make fuel blending compulsory
Close the CAFE loophole
Biofuels – Sept 24
Biofuels: Green energy or grim reaper?
Farming the World’s Energy
Researchers Caution on Potential of Energy Crops as Invasive Species
Renewables – Sept 24
Silicon Valley explores solar technology
Philippines urged to use its abundant wind
Slow uptake of gasoline alternatives in US
Clinton debuts $1B renewable-energy fund
2006 a tipping point, says Flavin
