James Woolsey, hemp advocate
Industrial hemp has an unlikely new champion: former CIA director James Woolsey. Woolsey sees a link between the need to end America’s oil addiction and hemp’s potential as a source of renewable energy.
Biomass
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 4
Mapping as an infill tool /
HP wants your Old PCs back /
A better shade of green for Wall Street /
The small but beautiful ways to save the planet /
Anything into oil (thermal conversion)
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 3
Briquette that heats homes and saves trees in Kenya /
Sterilizing water with solar radiation /
Jason Edens, rural solar advocate /
Nice lawn, M’Lord, but please don’t eat the grass /
How to stop guzzling gas
Other energy – Apr 3
Chávez seeks to peg oil at $50 a barrel /
True price of UK’s nuclear legacy: £160bn /
Demand for ethanol grows, prices surge /
Peak sugar!
Demand for sugar is skyrocketing, because of our need for energy and oil-substitutes. An indirect sign of peak oil, if that was ever needed. And it’s happening really, really quickly…
Peak oil – Apr 1
Peak Sugar! /
Peabody Energy, largest coal company, thinks ‘coal is the future’ /
Deffeyes visits Alaska /
Peak opportunity! Earth liberation and the oil endgame
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 30
Toll for driving in downtown San Francisco? /
The Meatrix II /
Delaware Valley officially plans for post-peak /
The American Prospect special issue on “Green economy: after oil”
Other energy – Mar 30
Big Oil’s big windfall (inadvertent subsidies) /
Pentagon seminars seek solutions to U.S. oil ‘addiction’ /
Biotech crops will hurt family farmers and deepen the energy crisis /
Agriculture interests push ambitious renewable-energy goal /
Daylight Savings – A drop in the Oil Drum? /
New fuel economy rules issued to auto industry
Other energy – Mar 28
Cracking oil is not a funny business /
Clean-coal effort off to slow start /
UK wind power ‘ahead of predictions’ /
On the ethanol bandwagon: big names and big risks
Other energy – Mar 27
Saudi Oil Minister Ali Naimi is the Greenspan of energy /
Rural rights activists wreck Brazilian plantation /
Slavery underpinned the Georgian economy as oil does ours /
In Dubai, an outcry from Asians for workplace rights /
North Sea tax revenue cut by £1.5bn /
Uganda loses 26% forest cover
Other energy – Mar 25
Sweden plans wood-fueled future /
Europe eyes Brazillian sugar to fuel its cars /
Shell shocked: People of the Niger Delta fight back /
Iraqi oil: ‘Invasion has backfired’ /
Reheating the Cold War (Energy, Russia and the West) /
Africa must look to its own oil needs /
Running out of natural gas in North America
Other energy – Mar 24
Moscow and Riyadh have reasons for cooperation /
The marketistas want to break Gazprom /
Carbon cloud over a green fuel /
China raises taxes to curb use of energy and timber /
Of rigs and pipelines