Cars, sex and climate
Women who find Ferrari drivers sexy contribute to global warming?
GM trots out ‘Vette with 620 horses
Emission law may hamper muscle cars
Europe proposes binding limits on auto emissions
Transportation
Housing & urban design – Dec 19
Urban renewal: Now you’re walking
A cutting-edge architect’s eco-friendly home
Europe’s cities take the lead on cutting emissions
Cities rise to climate challenge
Biofuels – Dec 19
Rep. Bartlett votes against ethanol mandate
As ethanol takes its first steps, Congress proposes a giant leap
Food and fuel compete for land
MIT: The price of biofuels
US corn boom threatens sea life
Peak soil + peak oil = peak spoils
Welcome to Fantasy Air
Roger Bezdek asks a question that answers itself: “What is more important: Food or cheap air fares to Las Vegas and Vail?”
U.S. climate policy – Dec 13
Congressional study finds White House manipulated climate science
Judge says California can regulate greenhouse gases from cars
Proposal for $600 million center to coordinate energy, climate research in California
Al Gore Nobel Prize speech
CBS asks candidates about global warming
Transport – Dec 13
Open a new highway – on the sea
Putting the brakes on drive-thrus
Sell your car, stay sane (car-sharing)
How big is your bicycle?
Food & agriculture – Dec 8
Economist on food: Cheap no more
Food prices climbing, with no end in sight
The garden of the future? (Forest gardens)
New film Tableland documents sustainable farming
Food Summit asks: What’ll we do when the oil runs out?
Diesel prices pick farmers’ wallets
Food & energy – Dec 4
Riots and hunger feared as demand for grain sends food costs soaring
The world’s ever-increasing grocery bill
Calculating the carbon footprint of wine: my research findings
Experimenting with a global warming garden
Housing & urban design – Dec 4
Stay married – divorce is bad for environment
Five-tree fee for a Java wedding
Senior transportation a growing concern
Civic agriculture = sane housing
United States – Dec 4
Tension over oil at the edge of Alaska
Auto industry backs CAFÉ deal
Lawmakers to raise fuel efficiency
The candidates on energy
New push for ‘green collar’ jobs
Petrodollar greenfare
The Finance Round-Up
Post Kyoto: the state of Denmark
Denmark prides itself of some small contribution to life after peak oil. The year 2001 brought an end to this, however. But with the November 2007 election, environmental policy has once again been put in forward gear.
United States and Canada – Dec 2
Deal reached on fuel economy standards
Can solving global warming save our economy?
Mr. Harper’s cold comfort for Canadians
Oil Scrooge boosts costs for shipping
Mindful eating crusader to take top US nutrition post
