Cheated by the Heat
“Hot gas” is costing consumers like you and I billions of dollars every year. Is this just an oversight, or a scheme devised by gas stations to milk consumers of more money?
Transportation
Peak oil and geopolitics – Jan 22
Klare: Geopolitical consequences of peak oil
Kissinger: The new Iraq strategy
The draining of Africa’s wealth
TOD: Trade, transportation and the Chinese finger trap
Portland releases draft of peak oil plan
The City of Portland’s Peak Oil Task Force released its 88-page draft report for public comment.
Biofuels – Jan 21
Mexico feeling effects of ethanol boom
Corn soars, Mexico sets price limits
Analysts predict ethanol to power higher grain prices
Mexico caps tortilla price
Sweet dreams (local ethanol with sweet potatoes)
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 21
Carbon reduction action groups (CRAGs) in UK
Nobel laureates: sustainability needs more than science
Beyond the green corporation
Tree hugger wants a beautiful wooden house
Latin America takes on urbanization
10 ways to green your community
Dysfunction – Jan 20
Traffic disaster towers over L.A.
Texas view on environment is 18 lanes wide
Burtynsky photos on consumerist capitalism
The end of the world as they know it
Transport – Jan 17
China: rebirth of the bicycle?
End of the road for the US gas guzzler
Aviation’s role in climate change causes storm
Public transportation saves $6,200 per household, 1.4 billion gallons of gas
Ethanol Q & A
We received so much e-mail about last week’s article on using corn to produce ethanol that I was actually humming the whiskey-drinking Georgia Tech fight song to myself.
Dysfunction – Jan 15
Anywhere the eye can see, it’s likely to see an ad
Americans have personal bonds with cars
Is good weather bad for sustainable energy?
Climate – Jan 15
Nature on air travel and global warming
Connecting the global warming dots
EU eyes climate, energy in new China talks
WEF: global risks outpacing the ability to mitigate them
Climate – Jan 14
Tory wants domestic flights to be taxed out of existence
Tony Blair’s carbon footprints (700 times the GHGs of the average Briton)
New book: Hell and High Water
Blair’s blooper on air travel
Blair, Monday: I’m not offsetting carbon. Blair, yesterday: Er, I’ve had a rethink
Tony Juniper: sins of emission
