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GAO report: DOE lacks a strategic approach to biofuels
Biofuel puts developing countries’ water at risk
FAO: Biofuel is gold rush of the 21st century
China: Food price rises force a cut in biofuels
Corn Growers attribute high food prices to increasing gas costs
Top UK scientist says biofuels are scam
The great biofuel hoax
Malaysia defends palm oil production
All aboard Branson’s bio train
US subsidy aids European drivers
Suburbs with downtown appeal
Building the future: Community buildings
Building the Future: Home
Zero-carbon housing
Before Al Gore made global warming a political movement, I had a job to do and a sense of purpose. Fight global warming, save the planet. Now, were I to take up the topic, I would be merely redundant. There is a disorienting sense that the movement is no longer on my turf, that it has been handed over to bigger entities.
Matt Simmons speaks at University of California
Roger Bezdek on peak oil, global warming and Australia
Another near miss?
Russian car sales & net oil exports
TOD Canada news round-up
Review: A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
Alaskan village asks: What happens when oil is too expensive to use?
Repowering Montana: Blueprint for energy self-reliance
Time to shift gears, step on gas myths
Quiet revolution: dispensing with cars and planes
Time for action says airline magnate Branson
Air France-KLM boss: industry has done too little, too late
Going “Vrrrrm!” at the expense of the climate?
Unlike subsidies to farmers for growing corn, which tends to bring the price of corn down, the more corn that subsidized ethanol plants use, the higher the price rises, and so inevitably, the price of meat, milk and eggs too. Somewhere along the way, the consumer may face a momentous decision: shall I eat or shall I drive? The best use of corn in my opinion is to make good bourbon. At least we might die happy if our civilization crashes like the corn-dependent Mayan culture did.
In a speech to the South Australian State Parliament, MP Chloe Fox said: “I urge people to please go on the internet, go to Google, type in the words ‘peak oil theory’, and if you read what I have read, you will not be able to sleep at night.”
Thomas Edison – wind pioneer
Two years of record growth in wind – just the beginning?
Wind power: some lessons from 2006
Mali: Jatropha oil lights up villages
Although very high U.S. gasoline prices should, in theory, allow us to outbid others for cargos of gasoline, there are many possibilities for disruptions to gasoline imports before the summer is over. Any piece of bad news is likely to lead to higher prices very quickly.
Planning for transport using peak oil and climate scenarios
Radiant City movie review: Life in the suburbs, if you can call it living
A flood of “oasis-changers” in Australia
