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Biofuels and Coal - May 21
Europe’s Overseas Push into Biofuels Leigh Phillips, Business Week Companies are buying tracts of land in Africa, Russia, and Ukraine to produce biofuels in a move that could harm farmers in developing economies — Massive tracts of land in Africa, Russia and Ukraine are being bought up or leased by richer countries to ensure access to food and for production of biofuels—a development
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Energy Solutions & Glitches - May 21
The Gospel of Green (Hermannn Scheer) The Fifth Estate, CBC (Canada) As the world confronts the reality of global warming and the inevitable end of oil, the questions of what to do and how to sustain energy without oil or fossil fuels becomes more urgent. Bob McKeown and a fifth estate team travel to Germany to meet Hermannn Scheer, called “Europe’s Al Gore,” a parliamentarian who
Energy policy - May 19
Empire of Carbon (China) Paul Krugman, New York Times … China cannot continue along its current path because the planet can’t handle the strain. The scientific consensus on prospects for global warming has become much more pessimistic over the last few years. Indeed, the latest projections from reputable climate scientists
EB - Peak Oil - May 18
Published May 18 2009 by Energy Bulletin Click on the headline (link) for the full text. An Inconvenient Talk: Dave Hughes’s guide to the end of the fossil fuel age Chris Turner, Walrus Magazine Dave Hughes is driving north on Highway 2. Headed out of Calgary, where he worked for thirty-two years at
