Over 30 speakers including Richard Heinberg, Ellen Hodgson Brown, Albert Bates, Stephanie Mills, Kurt Cobb, Richard Gilbert, John Richter, Tim Hudson, Bill Wilson, Tony Earley, Jerry Norcia, Paul Murray and Aaron Wissner explore the challenges and possibilities for Michigan's future at a three day solution oriented conference in November.

This time, the Masters of the Universe have blown up so spectacularly that they are taking down not just their own mindless activities, but also the whole banks with them, leaving no money for normal lending activity. And here I am, the sorry worker of a bank ... having been told that I should tell my clients that there is no money for them for the rest of the year. No money for wind farms.

World Bank's 'Green" Energy Funding Up 87 Percent
Study Eases Fear About Wind Farm Threat to Birds
Wind power and feed-in tairffs in Ukraine (audio)
Dutch city kept warm by hot-water mines

'Wave snakes' switch on to harness ocean's power
Electricity From What Cows Leave Behind
UK's renewable energy efforts 'ineffective'

A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective

Brown vows freedom from oil dictatorship
How food waste can power your home
When the wind doesn't blow
Environment Minister Sammy Wilson: climate change views are "hysterical psuedo-religion"

Governor Palin - How Big Oil went from friend to foe in Alaska
Roscoe Bartlett: Drilling for clean energy
Winona LaDuke on climate and energy
Riding the wind with T. Boone

A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective

Wind energy bumps into power grid’s limits
Biodiesel boom spurs theft of nasty, used Fry-o-lator grease

Barack Obama selects Biden as his running mate (Biden's energy positions)
Energy politics proving difficult to master
‘A whole new world’: oil and Alaska
Xcel takes unusual step to shut down coal power plants
Pickens' plan and California's Proposition 10
Californians wary of costs of going green: survey