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Renewables - May 15

7 hours 24 min ago
Staff, Energy Bulletin. Biofuels majority of non-OPEC oil growth
New source for biofuels discovered- cyanobacteria
World's largest offshore wind farm in the works
Wave/geothermal - energy return on investment (EROI)
Categories: News

Supplies - May 15

7 hours 36 min ago
Staff, Energy Bulletin. No plans to cut crude exports: Iran official
Money motivates Iran to consider output cut
Oil's murky math (lack of good data)
High oil prices rekindle oil production in Mo.
Categories: News

Prices - May 15

7 hours 37 min ago
Staff, Energy Bulletin. Oil industry costs continue steep rise: CERA
ConocoPhillips: High oil prices not "a friend"
Emerging markets 'to keep oil prices high'
Fund manager: Oil could reach $200
Fuel subsidies part of the problem?
Categories: News

The peak oil crisis: diesel

7 hours 48 min ago
Tom Whipple, Falls Church News-Press. The evidence is mounting that the U.S. might just encounter the first real crisis of the oil depletion age before the year is out. The crisis at first will be one of spiraling prices for diesel and heating oil, followed by actual shortages here in the United States.
Categories: News

Deep thought - May 15

19 hours 8 min ago
Staff, Energy Bulletin. Kunstler and Orlov interview
Climate change and public health
Sharon Astyk: Problems and principles of energy descent
David Korten: Navigating the Great Turning from empire to earth community
Clay Shirky on deploying the cognitive surplus for the public good
Categories: News

The food system - May 15

May 14, 2008 - 4:02pm
Staff, Energy Bulletin. New Yorker: Is the world's food system collapsing?
In search of a better revolution (than the Green Revolution)
Raj Patel's Starved
Fewer poor people, more volatility in food prices?
Categories: News

Food & agriculture - May 15

May 14, 2008 - 3:54pm
Staff, Energy Bulletin. U.S. using food crisis to boost bio-engineered crops
Indians bristle at U.S. criticism on food prices
Jump in food prices biggest in 18 years
Horses abandoned in West as feed prices rise
More signs of trouble for corn crop
Rodale urges expansion of organic farming
Categories: News

North America - May 15

May 14, 2008 - 3:26pm
Staff, Energy Bulletin. Little inflation in April - as long as you didn't eat and kept your car in the garage
McCain's gift to the green movement
The Battery and the Charger B.C. and Alberta need each other's power
Categories: News

Solutions & sustainability - May 15

May 14, 2008 - 3:19pm
Staff, Energy Bulletin. Juneau cuts electricity use 30% in weeks
School not always greener (but it could be)
Sustainability for competitive advantage
If your appliances are avocado, they probably aren't green
Categories: News

Climate - May 15

May 14, 2008 - 3:15pm
Staff, Energy Bulletin. Huge study documents changes from climate warming
A climate change industrial policy (concerns of the military)
Water-cooled supercomputer to study climate
Are Myanmar's storm victims suffering needlessly?
Categories: News

Peak oil - May 14

May 14, 2008 - 10:33am
Staff, Energy Bulletin. Martin Wolf (FT): oil prices an 'an early warning of stark reality'
CNN briefing on oil
Truth and lies about world's oil supply
Glenn Beck interviews Kunstler
Peak oil on BBC's 'You and Yours'
Categories: News

The Age of Aquarius

May 14, 2008 - 2:20am
Dave Cohen , ASPO-USA / Energy Bulletin. Prices may fall later this year, but will not likely dip below the $110/barrel floor price. It is actually more likely that the price will continue to rise this year, as Goldman Sachs believes, because 1) stuff happens, e.g. deepwater project delays, project cost inflation, blown-up pipelines, and 2) we are now living in Flatland.
Categories: News

Green industry hub rises from Rust Belt ruins

May 13, 2008 - 4:19pm
Paul Solman, PBS News Hours. Innovators are making the Pittsburgh region an eco-showcase of the benefits of going green and bringing new hope to the economically depressed Rust Belt region. (Highly recommended. Excerpts - audio and video available)
Categories: News

Transport - May 14

May 13, 2008 - 4:19pm
Staff, Energy Bulletin. Paul Krugman: Stranded in suburbia
Nissan plans electric car in U.S. by '10
Diesel cars - promises and problems
Categories: News

United States - May 14

May 13, 2008 - 4:01pm
Staff, Energy Bulletin. Rachman (FT): 'The pursuit of oil is fundamental to US foreign policy.'
McCain: Clean energy a 'national security issue'
Democratic candidates play up 'clean coal'
Review of Apollo's Fire on energy policy
Categories: News

Metals - May 14

May 13, 2008 - 3:58pm
Staff, Energy Bulletin. Military cracks down on scrap-metal scavengers
Metal theft plagues troubled neighborhoods
Some homes worth less than their copper pipes
Copper theft could have been deadly
Preventing home copper-tubing theft
Steel once again a hot commodity
Categories: News

Renewables - May 14

May 13, 2008 - 3:53pm
Staff, Energy Bulletin. Myanmar biofuel drive deepens food shortage
Boone Pickens ready to bet on wind power
Oregon Inst of Tech to be 100% geothermal
DOE's John Mizroch - Renewable gigawatts
Categories: News

Food & agriculture - May 14

May 13, 2008 - 3:49pm
Staff, Energy Bulletin. Ways of ancient Mexico reviving barren lands
Afghans swap poppies for wheat as prices soar
Farmers can't cash in on soaring food prices
Patents on 'climate ready' altered crops
UK complaint: Foreigners will no longer pick our fruit and veg
Categories: News

Climate - May 14

May 13, 2008 - 3:43pm
Staff, Energy Bulletin. Herman Daly: Moving climate policy from 'know how' to 'do now'
Climate worries wealthy, polluting nations least
What condoms have to do with climate change
Categories: News

Problems - May 14

May 13, 2008 - 3:39pm
Staff, Energy Bulletin. Floods in Australia coal-mine raise costs of cars, planes, washers
Gas 'chimneys' sweep BP clean coal plan away
New wave of nuclear plants faces high costs
Categories: News