Environment – May 20

European energy groups manipulate carbon trading for profit / Carbon dioxide is good for you /
Climate change: when policy cycles are circumvented (why the grassroots are weak) / Thank you for emitting / Gore-backed group will spend big to convince Americans climate change is real / Communicating climate change (getting people scared doesn’t work)

Peak oil – May 11

Video of Sustainable Energy Forum /
TOD on PO & Environment Conference (Day 2, Part 1) / Climate change and PO (a tale of two conferences) /
FTW and Alternet cover the Local Solutions conference /
Mauritius: Preparing for the end of the petroleum era /
AP: When are we likely to run out of oil?

Peak oil – May 9

Wash. Post cites Hirsch report, says Bush knows about PO / The Oil Drum reports on PO & Environment Conference / “When the Circuit Breaks: America’s Energy Crisis” – 1975 video /
Newsweek: will we hit $100? / Physicist-author David Goodstein on peak oil / Links, links, links from TOD and Gristmill

Peak oil – May 8

The Future for Petroleum – a prescient view from 1964 / The Oil Drum: Who has to conserve how much? / King Coal (and Mark Jaccard) / Atlanta after the end of oil / I’ve got a little list… of gas-price villains / Summary of Petro Collapse II conference