Climate & U.S. – Mar 17
Administration buries report on climate impacts on Gulf transport; muzzles scientists
Scholar: US should help China reduce emissions
US told to go green on carbon emissions or lose EU flights
Transportation
Transport – Mar 11
Working on the railroad – personnel shortage
No brakes, no gears: the latest bike craze
Mass transit use hits 50-year high
It’s not just fossil fuels (auto addiction)
Transport & urban design – Mar 8
EcoDensity’s unofficial champion
UK cyclists face a rough ride
Relative comfort – living as an extended family
‘Big shift’ to rail urged for UK
Weird unofficial Toyota ads
Caltex Australia’s unpleasant truth about gas prices
Petrol ‘will go to $3 a litre’
Petrol at what price?
Motoring group: prediction a ‘scare tactic’
Traffic congestion charge has modest impact on the life expectancy of Londoners
Scheme has led to 1,888 extra years of life for Londoners
United States – Mar 4
Americans start to curb thirst for gas
NYT: The Senate shills for Big Oil
Climate crisis getting short shrift in president race: Gore
‘Post fossil fuel era’ in Senate endorsement
Is belt tightening a threat?
Transport – Mar 4
The car is doomed, scientist warns
Radical plan to drive cars from key roads
Police bust copper theft racket
No place for pedestrians in Bangalore?
Review: World Made by Hand by James Kunstler
The novel presents a fictional world that is at once idyllic and post-apocalyptic, reassuring and frightening.
Oil prices – Mar 2
Hydrocarbons expert Nicolas Sarkis: ‘world has to get used to high oil prices’
Oil prices to stay above 60-70 dollars: Saudi Arabia
Under the pump (good Australian analysis)
Independent truckers see end of the road
Biofuels – Mar 1
Biofuels: Driving in the wrong direction?
The ethanol bust
Cuba to produce ethanol without sacrificing food
Transport – Mar 1
Start your leg engines
World’s first wave-powered boat
A revolution in the skies… a disaster for the planet
Peak oil – Feb 29
Rep. Bartlett delivers his 38th special order speech on peak oil (video)
Bartlett: Declining oil supply means war is ‘fairly probable’
BMW: peak oil in 2025, solution = hydrogen
