The Smart Jitney: Rapid, Realistic Transport

Community Solutions takes a more realistic approach to their analysis of our transportation system. What about mass transit? What about hybrids? Plug in hybrids? Hydrogen cars? Bikes? Walking? It groovygreen

The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream

The consequences of inaction in the face of this global crisis are enormous. What does Oil Peak mean for North America? As energy prices skyrocket even more in the coming years, how will the populations of suburbia react to the collapse of their dream? Are today’s suburbs destined to become the slums of tomorrow? And […]

Energy producers capture speedier wind

New technology is allowing energy producers to capture speedier wind that environmental activists say has the potential to provide 20 percent of the state’s electricity within 10 years. What’s new are taller windmills that can catch gusts that are faster than those closer to the ground. The tallest windmills have been about 250 feet, but […]

Growing Number of Americans See Warming as Leading Threat

A third of Americans say global warming ranks as the world’s single largest environmental problem, double the number who gave it top ranking last year, a nationwide poll shows. In the new poll, conducted jointly by The Washington Post, ABC News and Stanford University, most of those surveyed said that climate change is real and […]

Renewable hydrogen energy – an answer to the energy crisis

Harvesting solar energy to produce renewable, carbon free and cost effective hydrogen as an alternative energy source is the focus of a new physorg

GM to unveil longe-range Volt concept at Shanghai show

With its much-hyped plug-in hybrid car still years away, General Motors Corp. already is planning a long-range, hydrogen-fueled sequel to the vehicle known as Volt. At the Shanghai Auto Show today, the automaker will announce plans to product a hydrogen-fueled version of the Chevrolet Volt concept vehicle. Like the original Volt, it would be powered […]

France invites Indian talent to study bioenergy, part of Indo-French cooperation

According to the Bioenergy Network of Excellence, research and education in the field of bioenergy is speeding up in Europe, with major universities across the EU now offering 60 dedicated masters and PhD programs. With this in mind, and as part of a wider Indo-French cooperation effort in bioenergy, France is encouraging Indian students and […]

You are now entering an oil-free zone

Close your eyes and imagine your life without oil. Impossible? Well, according to the people behind the emergence of so-called “transition towns”, it may not be too far away. The first town in the UK to embrace a future without the black stuff was Totnes in Devon in September 2006 and since then others, including […]

Petroleum Institute Reaches Out

Red Cavaney, the president of the American Petroleum Institute had a conference call with bloggers and newspaper reporters today. The API is also doing a press tour across the country to educate the media on energy issues. It was odd that most of the conversation centered not on petroleum, but on ethanol, but then again, […]

The relocalization of sport

…Hundreds of pro and college teams criss-cross the continent by plane, play in huge stadiums lit at enormous energy expense, in front of fans most of whom have driven miles to the game. I’m a jock and a fan; I live and die with my beloved Canucks (we’re just starting the playoffs). I empathize with […]

The Cheapest Car Ever Made

An Indian car may soon earn a parking place in history alongside Ford’s Model T, Volkswagen’s Beetle and the British Motor Corp.’s Mini, all of which put a set of wheels within reach of millions of customers after they rolled onto the scene. Tata Motors is developing a car it aims to sell for about […]

Buildings Are China’s Energy

Buildings account for nearly 30 percent of China WorldWatch

Australia to turn off the tap on farmers as drought bites

Australia warned Thursday that unless heavy rains fell soon irrigation water for the nation’s prime farmland would be cut off, deepening a crippling drought’s drag on the economy. …Howard said scarce water supplies were needed for urban communities facing critical shortages due to a drought scientists have described as the worst in a century. “It’s […]

Soybean planting hastens drying of Amazonia: study

PARIS (AFP) – Chopping down Amazonian rainforest to plant soybeans is even more damaging to the environment than using the land for cattle pasture, according to a study reported on Wednesday. Soybean fields in Brazil reduce local rainfall by four times as much as pasture land, the British weekly New Scientist said. The reason: soybean […]

Gates grant to help poor countries contribute to doomsday seed vault

A Gates Foundation grant will help developing countries send the seeds of “critical” food crops to a doomsday seed vault in an Arctic deep freeze, the recipients said Thursday. “The fight against hunger cannot be won without securing fast-disappearing crop biodiversity,” the Global Crop Diversity Trust and its partner the UN Foundation said in announcing […]

US military considers biofuelled fighter jets

Even if the all world New Scientist

Albert Bates, guide for our post-petroleum, globally warmed future

The April issue of Vanity Fair-online features The Farm, an intentional community in Tennessee. Albert Bates gets a lot of ink in that article, as he has spent most of his life on The Farm making his mark in both publishing and education. There, his original skill set as a lawyer and horseman in 1972 […]

Egypt weighs domestic energy needs as export demands grow

…The growth of energy-intensive industries has helped boost foreign direct investment to record highs. FDI was $7bn ( The growth of these industries has coincided with rising domestic demand for gas, putting a huge burden on the treasury as energy subsidies have swelled from E

Doing right thing isn’t easy, even for those who want to

Most Americans believe that dramatic steps are needed to conserve energy and reduce the threat of global warming, but they are willing to go only so far in changing their lifestyles to “go green.” A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds that more Americans than ever And in a reflection of the impact the environmental movement has […]

DOE to Issue Second Solicitation for Purchase of Crude Oil for the SPR

WASHINGTON, DC The solicitation requests offers for up to four million barrels in the following quantities: two million barrels of sweet crude to be delivered to the West Hackberry, Louisiana site, and/or two million barrels of sour crude to the delivered to the Bryan Mound, Texas site. Bids are due by May 1, 2007, and […]

The war on oil

Fought in laboratories and farmers’ fields, the fight to break us of our chronic oil habit won’t be without its perils. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Coming soon to a test tube near you: America’s new war. This war won’t be fought with tanks and machine guns and improvised explosive devices, though. Instead, the generals in […]

World needs to axe greenhouse gases by 80%

OSLO (Reuters) – The world will have to axe greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050, more deeply than planned, to have an even chance of curbing global warming in line with European Union goals, researchers said on Thursday. Even tough long-term curbs foreseen by the EU or California fall short of reductions needed […]

Pakistan: Women block road to protest power outage

GHALANAI: Hundreds of infuriated women and children Wednesday blocked the main Peshawar-Bajaur road to protest against the non-availability of electricity in their area. They protestors also staged a sit-in on the main road at Pir Qilla and warned of converting their peaceful protest into a violent one if the supply of electricity was not restored […]

Hydrogen Cars are not up to speed yet.

BMW has recently announced pacesetting plans to introduce the Hydrogen 7 to a small pool of U.S. consumers later this year, ideally becoming the true (read: environmentally friendly) CityonahillPress

Dana Petroleum CEO looks to North Africa for more large acquisitions

Dana Petroleum PLC is looking to North Africa for more large acquisition opportunities, chief executive Tom Cross said on the day it announced a 375 mln usd buy of Devon Energy Corp’s Egyptian assets, although he says this won’t come at the expense of its UK portfolio. Cross told Thomson Financial News in an interview […]

Oil prices rise after report shows U.S. oil refineries boost production

Oil prices rose Thursday on a report showing that U.S. oil refineries were accelerating gasoline production ahead of the summer driving season even as U.S crude and gasoline supplies fell. The drop in oil stocks was unexpected, and draws on gasoline supplies greater than forecast. Light, sweet crude for May delivery rose 5 cents to […]

Mexico Tax Reform May Boost Collection by 3% of GDP

Mexico’s government is developing plans to boost tax collection by 3 percent of gross domestic product over the next six years, deputy Finance Minister Fernando de Jesus Sanchez Ugarte said. Mexico, which relies on oil to fund more than a third of federal spending, must reduce its dependence on oil revenue, Sanchez Ugarte, the deputy […]

Study warns of health risk from ethanol

If ethanol ever gains widespread use as a clean alternative fuel to gasoline, people with respiratory illnesses may be in trouble. A new study out of Stanford says pollution from ethanol could end up creating a worse health hazard than gasoline, especially for people with asthma and other respiratory diseases. “Ethanol is being promoted as […]

Venezuela, Chile boost ties, agree to develop Orinoco fields

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Chilean counterpart Michelle Bachelet agreed to boost energy and economic ties between their nations, forming a joint venture to develop Venezuela’s oil-rich Orinoco Belt. State-run Petroleos de Venezuela SA will work with Chile’s national oil company, Empresa Nacional de Petroleo, known as Enap, to certify heavy-crude reserves in the […]

Turkey to Inaugurate Oil Pipeline

Turkey will launch an oil pipeline between its Black Sea and Mediterranean coasts next Tuesday with a groundbreaking ceremony at the Ceyhan oil terminal, energy officials said yesterday. At an estimated cost of $1.5 billion, the 550-kilometer-long pipeline, to be completed in 2009, will carry Kazakh and Azeri oil from the Black Sea port of […]

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