Energy industry – Aug 4
Alaska’s addiction (oil industry influence)
Oil firms’ buybacks pump up criticism
Peak oil and what it means to the petroleum industry
Growing risk: the payback (gas market)
Transportation
The seductive message of Who Killed the Electric Car?
I find it very doubtful that we will all be able to sit behind the wheel our electric cars and wait for a green techno-utopia to emerge.
Peak oil – Aug 2
Interview with Jean Laherrère
The incredible disappearing 140 Tcf of Canadian gas
Astyk:
How to explain peak oil to anyone
Fuelhard
Review: The Last Oil Shock
Ask not for whom The wind blows…
Climate – Aug 2
Climate protest at Heathrow airport may face “the mother of all injunctions”
Brazil, alarmed, reconsiders policy on climate change
Warming of glaciers threatens millions in China
Compressed gas hits the metals markets
All societies on earth face a Catch 22. We need to use fossil fuels to extract and manufacture resources to allow a transition to a liquefied natural gas infrastructure. Then our societies will have to use the remaining natural gas reserves to exploit even more minerals and commodities to transition to electric infrastructure.
Biofuels – July 31
David Blume’s Alcohol Can Be A Gas book
LS9 promises ‘renewable petroleum’
Poison plant could help to cure the planet
The ethanol effect
Transport – July 31
The world’s costliest roadworks? Widening the M6- at £1,000 an inch
Europeans reluctant to give up cars
WalkScore and the Great Neighborhood Book
MPs urge government to boost water freight (canals)
Climate – July 30
UK aviation industry takes 5 million people to court
U.S. airlines under pressure to fly greener
Report: global warming causing a doubling of hurricane activity
Tiny Tuvalu fights for its survival
Forest Service worries about bigger fires, climate change
Biofuels – July 27
The unintended consequences of the ethanol quick fix
Struggles between Big Oil, ethanol industry
A dark side to the ethanol boom?
Transport – July 26
Bicycle shame
Make your mark and ground the growth of aviation (Heathrow)
Carbon cost of building and operating light rail
On the rails to nowhere (Sydney rail)
More transport – July 26
Interactive site: is your neighborhood walkable?
How London car curbs inspired U.S. cities
Transport policy needs to go off-road (Australia)
UK floods – Jul 24
Power cut threat eases as flood defences hold
Rainfall changes linked to human activity
Brown: UK must adapt to climate change
We must face up to the flooding, not flee to the sun
