Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Pursuing a low-carbon economy is not about denying ourselves opportunities for growth, it is about opening up new opportunities, including new ways of measuring progress and raising public funds. The world will have to go green in the future. [speech by the leader of the UK Liberal Democat party]
Gorbachev Urges G8 to Back Solar Power, Not Oil or Nuclear /
Energy and the airline industry /
Fuel Prices Have U.S. Workers Eyeing Telecommuting /
Computer energy use under scrutiny (Wind-up or solar powered PCs?) /
Dark days for energy efficiency (cuts in U.S. funding) /
The building of the Alaskan Oil pipeline /
Why nuclear power cannot be a major energy source /
Popular Mechanics crunches the numbers on alternative fuels
Monbiot: ‘This is embarrassing – I’ve become a fossil fuel supporter’ /
Call by Swiss minister at Doha to invest in renewables /
Your cars are an incredible luxury /
Bush seeks to curb oil tax breaks /
The truth about sugar /
Petroleum Inst economist on oil supply, prices /
Bold idea for energy woes: global cooperation
“The gradual move away from oil has begun. Over the next 15 to 20 years we may see biofuels providing a full 25 percent of the world’s energy needs.”
Could Sweden become the OPEC-equivalent for bioenergy? /
Americans commute longer, farther than ever /
Wall Street Journal’s green auto coverage /
Australian’s fuel-from-plastic potential wasted
More uranium: when and from where? /
Going nuclear: a green makes the case /
Anything into oil (turkey guts, junked car parts, even raw sewage…true!) /
Growing demand for non-food crops /
UK coal producer pushes for price increases of 40% /
Russia to control Armenia’s gas /
Transmaterial, transtudio and seeing the big picture – links
If our political system fails to deliver a viable energy policy, then business consumers will be forced to take matters into their own hands
Nuclear power is not energy solution, say UK MPs /
Forget computers. Here comes the sun (PVs) /
Biofuel: who benefits? /
Uganda: energy crisis likely to cause global environmental catastrophe – Price-Waterhouse /
Scientist urges switch to thorium
Thomas Alva Edison: “This scheme of combustion to get power makes me sick to think of–it is so wasteful … we should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy.”
Energy Bulletin readers would have found little difficulty in accepting the critical importance of what Cobb calls “net energy” to the world’s energy future. However net energy is a notoriously difficult figure to pin down.
The once and future carbohydrate economy /
You are what you eat (“Omnivore’s Dilemma” by Pollan) /
Oslo’s sewage heats its homes /
From Brazil: A different kind of bus system
