Solutions & sustainability – Mar 13
‘Technology feeds grassroots media’ /
Inviting anarchy into my home (living well on $500/month) /
Organic produce more nutritious /
Lowering electricity demand in Bangladesh
Technology
Environment – Mar 13
Princeton professor lays out broad strategy on greenhouse emissions /
Tight budgets imperil the nation’s environmental satellites – vital forecasting tools /
Bering sea climate is shifting; sea life fights to survive /
Lester Brown “On Point”
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 7
Can our way of living really save the planet? /
Sustainability – at the tipping point? /
On the horizon: charge! (the humble battery) /
‘Green’ chemists swap oil for renewable alternatives /
Chew Magna: Is this greenest village in Britain? /
Is more better?
Guns and sunshades to rescue climate
Is there a silver bullet that can help us to limit the amount of climate change? Some such “silver bullets” aim to scrub carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere, some to cool Earth directly by veiling it; others are yet more radical.
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 2
The revolution in building materials /
Making our cities fuel-efficient /
Wind, wave, wood: energy-independent Humboldt Country /
Sustainable town of Willits to star in sequel to “End of Suburbia”
Plug pulled on renewable energy gurus
31 workers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory were dismissed seven days after President Bush read the words “addicted to oil” off the teleprompter and announced yet another “Advanced Energy Initiative.”
GridWise
Also posted at http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/ this article describes a technology that reduces electricity demand helps stabilise the grid and facilitates distributed microscale generation.
Business deal or bright idea?
To insiders, the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate is a real world, mature-person’s solution to climate change. No economic pain, no mandatory targets, no international commitments and no need for open, accountable negotiations. To other observers, it’s an empty vessel; a fig-leaf to cover the embarrassment of George Bush and John Howard, the only western leaders to have reneged on commitments their predecessors made at the UN Kyoto conference in 1997.
Goldman’s Murti Says `Peak Oil’ Makes $105 Price Tame
Dec. 19 (Bloomberg) — Goldman Sachs Group Inc. analyst Arjun Murti, who roiled oil markets in March by saying crude may reach $105 a barrel, now says that may be conservative if the “peak oil” theory is right and world supplies are running out.
Peak oil – Nov 29
Deffeyes sticks with Thanksging 2005 prediction /
Monbiot: Cut demand to have any hope of solving the energy crisis /
US Senate committee hearing on peak oil /
Ending the end of oil /
Peak oil and pensions /
Gloomy seasons greetings from Kunstler
Compressed air wind energy storage
A solution to intermittent power generation and fluctuating prices for wind energy producers?
Solutions & sustainability – Nov 26
Taking back our food system /
That’s not trash, it’s dinner, “freegans” say /
No-flush urinals just waiting for plumbers /
The need for a more powerful/energy efficient Internet
