Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
As peak oil arrives, and many Americans turn to wood fuel for heating and cooking, how can we mitigate the problems of particulate pollution and deforestation? Let’s talk about ways to get the appropriate information, skills, and technologies out to the public.
Local governments face: (1) declining revenues due to declining property values and declining family incomes; (2) increasing costs for gasoline, diesel, and heating oil; (3) inflation in the costs of equipment, materials, products, services, and electric power …
Climate change experts ‘lose faith’ in renewable technology
Solar’s future doesn’t look quite so sunny
Floating Offshore Wind Power
Indonesia: New energy scheme not a load of bull
Sweet Answer to a Fuel Problem
Big Gav: Low temperature geothermal power
Villaraigosa unveils solar plan for Los Angeles
Vatican set to go green with huge solar panel roof
Could a hyperactive hamster power your house?
Problems Plague U.S. Flex-Fuel Fleet
Fuel from food? The feast is over
Solar towers will harness sunshine of southern Spain
Unlike the other post-oil novels published so far, Ill Wind isn’t about peak oil. In those other novels, oil has gradually dribbled away while we’ve steadfastly ignored the warning signs. But in Ill Wind, the world’s oil vanishes suddenly after some bizarre, experimental oil-eating microbe is unleashed on a massive tanker spill, and then runs amok. What Ill Wind and those other novels do have in common, however, is that they imagine a future world without oil.
Green-basher Boris relaunches himself as an eco-warrior
King coal wins battle of Smalley
Power in the desert: solar towers will harness sunshine of southern Spain
World Willing to Pay More for Green Energy
Britain’s water mills given role in clean energy generation
New System Proposed To Optimize Combined Energy Use
The last few months have seen a significant stalling in plans and proposals to build new wind-based power generation. These delays and cancellations have significant implications for two important components of American energy.
Michigan’s third peak oil conference of 2008 focuses on the specific challenges and solutions for Michigan and features 45 speakers including Richard Heinberg, Albert Bates, Michael Brownlee, Ellen Hodgeson Brown, Richard Gilbert, Stephanie Mills, Kurt Cobb, and Aaron Wissner. The event is schedule for the November 14 weekend.
A Splash of Green for the Rust Belt
Green-collar army recruits for the solar boom
COM-BAT spy plane takes to the skies
New Research Suggests LED Lighting May Put A Serious Wrinkle in Big-Bucks Botox Biz
The ethics of ethanol
World can halt fossil fuel use by 2090: study
IEA cites gains from energy efficiency
A Solar Gold Rush Is Spreading From California to New Jersey
