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Renewables & efficiency - Nov 6

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet with Renewables
-Farms going green to save and survive
-Solar power from Sahara a step closer
-Nearly 200 Organizations and Companies Urge Senate to Adopt Key Energy-Efficiency Provision in Climate Bill
-Report Argues for a Decentralized System of Renewable Power Generation

archived November 6, 2009
	

Climate & environment - Nov 6

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-Coping With Climate Change: Which Societies Will Do Best?
-GM's Money Trees
-The Carnivore’s Dilemma
-USDA Research: Does No-Till Really Capture More Carbon?
-Why growing virgin vegetable oil to burn is crazy
-Pachauri Still Sees a Chance for Success in Copenhagen Talks
-The Inferno

archived November 6, 2009
	

What "Lower Consumption" Means

Dan Allen, The Oil Drum

As a high-school teacher, I wanted to give my thoroughly-industrial, suburban-NJ students a more detailed peek at their upcoming post-industrial future. I felt the need to challenge their prevailing mindsets regarding our resource-depletion predicament: the “shorter showers & change the light-bulbs” crowd, the “engineers will surely come to our rescue” folks, and the “problem? -- what problem?” people. This essay and the before/after comparison chart that follows are part of my ongoing (unsanctioned) attempts at doing so.

archived November 4, 2009
	

Barcelona, Copenhagen, and climate change walkouts - Nov 4

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-U.N. Signals Delay in Climate Change Treaty
-Republicans walk out of Senate hearing on climate-change bill
-African nations make a stand at UN climate talks
-Senators opposed to the Clean Energy Jobs Act are ignoring the bill’s benefits to Americans
-We only have months, not years, to save civilisation from climate change

archived November 4, 2009
	

Nations & resources - Nov 4

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-The heart of India is under attack
-Shale gas blasts open world energy market
-Shale gas numbers may not add up
-It’s a dirty business — the new gold rush that is blackening Canada’s name

archived November 4, 2009
	

Solutions & sustainability - Nov 4

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-Changing a City: Inside Portland's 80 Percent by 2050 Target
-Zone5 Podcast #1 with Albert Bates and #2 with Noel Carillo
-Urban Permaculture in Clacton-on-Sea
-Toward an Ethic of Place: Experiments in Regional Governance

archived November 4, 2009
	

Climate change & agriculture - Nov 3

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-Corn-based meat and ethanol: burning the planet to a crisp
-Earth matters - Tackling the climate crisis from the ground up
-Loophole Deja Vu: Senate Climate Bill’s Agriculture Offsets Include Polluter Giveaway
-Study claims meat creates half of all greenhouse gases

archived November 3, 2009
	

The End Of Electricity

Peter Goodchild, Culture Change

There seems to be a consensus that the depletion of fossil fuels will follow a fairly impressive slope. What may need to be looked at more closely, however, is not the "when" but the "what." Looking at the temporary shortages of the 1970s may give us the impression that the most serious consequence will be lineups at the pump. Fossil-fuel decline, however, will also mean the end of electricity, a far more serious matter.

archived November 3, 2009
	

The EU’s climate change offer to the USA and a railway around the coast of Africa

Kjell Aleklett, Aleklett's Energy Mix

Until 1 January 2010 Sweden holds the presidency of the EU. This means that Sweden’s Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt is head of the EU-delegation that today travels to the USA for a summit on climate between the EU and the USA on Wednesday. Reinfeldt will meet president Obama today and can then present the offer that the EU nations agreed on last week.

archived November 2, 2009
	

Commentary: Oil & Money Conference—What the CEOs and VPs are Saying

Steve Andrews, ASPO-USA

On October 20-21, the 30th Oil & Money Conference, convened in London by Energy Intelligence and the International Herald Tribune, attracted roughly 500 attendees, many from the industry press (most of them working for the conveners). Held under tight security at the opulent Intercontinental Hotel, a half-dozen oil ministers past and present plus two dozen CEOs and VPs of oil producing, service companies and other industry players shared their views.

archived November 2, 2009
	

Anthropoclastic Climate Change

Dmitry Orlov, ClubOrlov

When I published the previous article about the ever-more-dire forecasts of ocean level rise, little did I know that I was blundering into the midst of a "climate change debate."...

archived November 2, 2009
	

Peak oil review - Nov 2

Tom Whipple, ASPO-USA

A weekly review including:
- Production and prices
- West Texas Intermediate
- Run-up to Copenhagen
- Quote of the Week
- Briefs

archived November 2, 2009
	

The peace movement and the cornucopian view

Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights

According to an often cited saying, "If you want peace, work for justice." But, most economic justice work is currently premised on the view that greater economic equality requires continued economic growth. This constitutes a wholehearted embrace of a cornucopian future; it recognizes no limits to growth that are implied by climate change, world peak oil production, and the rapid depletion of other resources including metal ores, water, soil and fish.

archived November 1, 2009
	

How we gonna feed the world? - Oct 30

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-UK urged to lead on future food
-World must use GM crops, says UK science academy
-Feed the world
-Can Biotech Food Cure World Hunger?
-Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations

archived October 30, 2009
	

Urban ag roundup - Oct 30

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-Farmers Markets Enjoy Popularity, Face Challenges
-Hoop Dreams
-Farmers’ markets for seed savers
-Food Advocates Envision Rooftop Gardens and Vertical Farms
-Will Allen and the Urban Farming Revolution

archived October 30, 2009