Renewables & efficiency – June 2
Jeff Vail: The Renewables Hump 3: The Target
Electricity figures show energy efficiency isn’t working
‘Clean-tech’ start-ups are pushing the green button
Transportation
Shattered and shuttered
My daddy bought Chevrolets in the 1950s, marvelously crazy-looking machines with winged tail-lights that handled like pontoon boats, broke down after 30,000 miles, and were tossed out every couple of years not on account of their mechanical failures so much as their obvious lack of up-to-the-minute styling. The post-war prosperity dazzled his generation with its democratic cornucopian bonanzas. The innocence of all that is truly lost now. There is a dark sense of things shifting out there now in a major way.
Obama tackles the liquid fuels problem
Today I’ll try to explain President Obama’s policy for decreasing oil consumption in the United States. Right now the administration has so many balls in the air that it is impossible to make a definite statement about what the effects of their initiatives will be, but a coherent policy is emerging if you gather all the pieces together.
Peak oil notes – May 28
A weekly round-up including:
– Prices and production
– Warnings
– Detroit
One & two wheels – May 28
Goods by Bicycle in China
Not Just Present at Work, but Presentable
Vancouver engineer invents self-balancing unicycle
The peak oil crisis: the electric car: part II
Unless we have an economic depression far worse than most currently believe is likely, the chances are good that within the next five years a combination of emissions restrictions and falling oil supplies is going to make gasoline too expensive for routine use in private automobiles.
United States – May 23
Regional climate pact’s lesson: avoid big giveaways to industry
Raising The CAFE standard will increase driving
Green camo: seeing through the military’s new environmentalism
Looking at ‘spoiled’ Americans through an energy lens
Peak oil notes – May 21
A weekly round-up including:
– Prices and production
– Brazil turns to China
– Obama administration accord pushes MPG
ODAC Newsletter – May 22
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
Transport – May 21
Obama’s big step in right direction on auto fuel efficiency and emissions
Obama auto efficiency move a blow to U.S. refiners
Getting Americans out from behind the wheel
Bicycles touted as ‘first modern post-fossil vehicle’
Biofuels and coal – May 21
Europe’s overseas push into biofuels
Why farm-state pols rage against the EPA’s biofuel stance
New book from National Academies: Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass
Solutions & sustainability – May 21
Simplicity: Peter Lawrence and Jim Merkel
Rethinking land use at Dartington: Rob Hopkins presentation
PBS documentary points to Portland transportation planning
Live Local (in Australia)