National Guard goes green to conserve energy, cost

SANTA FE, N.M. “Energy’s become one of our top priorities here in the National Guard,” said Thomas Gurule, a retired Guard lieutenant colonel who is now its energy manager. Every building under the military construction program must meet the U.S. Green Building Council’s silver rating, said Elvin L. Shields, chief of the design-criteria branch for […]

Jim’ll fix it

Could James Lovelock really solve the earth’s problems? Peter Forbes is almost convinced For two decades, James Lovelock was seen by many of his scientific peers as an eccentric loner who had ruined his otherwise solid reputation as an inventor and pioneering environmental chemist by insisting that the earth was “alive”, not very well, and […]

Oil Prices: Speak Softly and Carry an Ugly Stick

The future of oil and natural gas markets this year is coming to resemble a reverse beauty contest, a hard-fought battle to decide which is uglier It

Changing Climate Numbers

In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its fourth assessment report, summarizing evidence collected and weighed by scientists around the world. At the time, it was the best estimate of where the planet was, climatically speaking, and where it was likely to be going, and the news the report offered was daunting. There […]

Trouble Trickles From Steep Drop in Oil Prices

Once Flush Global Economies, Energy Projects Stall The precipitous fall in the price of oil in recent months, while good for consumers, has contributed to the confusion in the global economy, wreaking havoc with the budgets and economies of oil-exporting nations and putting many expensive energy projects on hold. In Canada, where President Obama visited […]

The great oil output race

From the deep waters of Brazil to complex and expensive projects in Canada, oil companies are in a desperate About two-thirds of the world

Total, the French Oil Company, Places Its Bets Globally

SANA, Yemen – IT Despite these challenges, Mr. Deffontaines, a lanky, 43-year-old Parisian, doesn

Richard Heinberg – The Conservation Imperative: Energy Limits to Growth

While this report is focused on the prospects for alternative energy sources to replace fossil fuels, it is useful to apply the above criteria first to oil, coal, and gas so that comparisons can be made with their potential replacements. Oil. As the world Plus: Petroleum has become so widely relied upon because of its […]

Bubbles of warming, beneath the ice

As permafrost thaws in the Arctic, huge pockets of methane — a potent greenhouse gas — could be released into the atmosphere. Experts are only beginning to understand how disastrous that could be. …”Every time I see bubbles, I have the same feeling,” says Katey Walter, a University of Alaska researcher. “They are amazing and […]

Our Panarchic Future

A theory that explains the evolution of ecosystems may apply to civilizations as well-and it says we’re approaching a critical phase. Panarchy theory had its origins in Holling’s meticulous observation of the ecology of forests. He noticed that healthy forests all have an adaptive cycle of growth, collapse, regeneration, and again growth. Over time as […]

Dismal gas drilling forecast gets bleaker

For the first time in more than two decades, the group that represents oil and gas drillers in Canada has been forced to revise its already bleak outlook for the industry. The Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors is now predicting 22 per cent fewer wells will be drilled in Western Canada, compared to the […]

Peak energy: promise or peril?

The notion that we’re running out of fossil fuel is gaining support in some unexpected quarters. But is peak energy good or bad news for the climate? Will we continue to use fossil fuels to the detriment of our planet and the human population? Or can we clean up our act in time to avoid […]

It’s Time for Cities to Favor People, Not Cars

Los Angeles and countless other cities – Phoenix, Houston and Atlanta come to mind – are far more friendly to cars than people, having been built according to land use policies that all but put people behind the wheel. It’s an unsustainable model, and it must change. That was the message transportation planner Timothy Papandreou […]

Blind Spot Documentary

Blind Spot is a documentary film that illustrates the current oil and energy crisis that our world is facing. Whatever measures of ignorance, greed, wishful thinking, we have put ourselves at a crossroads, which offer two paths with dire consequences. If we continue to burn fossil fuels we will choke the life out of the […]

Are the Government’s Energy Statistics Reliable Enough?

Everyone relies on Energy Department numbers, but experts say they can be incomplete or inaccurate How much oil does the United States import each year? How costly would a cap on carbon dioxide emissions be? How quickly did gasoline demand fall in 2008? These questions lie at the heart of the country’s urgent debates over […]

Solar power heats up energy possibilities

(CNN) — In the desert of southern Spain, just west of Seville, a sea of giant mirrors is reflecting the sun’s energy to provide “concentrated solar power” (CSP) while illuminating the path to a new wave of green energy projects. The 624 carefully positioned mirrors reflect the sun’s heat towards a 50 meter-tall central tower […]

U.S. Gas Production Seen Sliding for 4 Years

Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) — U.S. production of natural gas, the most widely used furnace fuel in the world Idling rigs slows new discoveries and prevents companies from offsetting output declines that average 30 percent a year from established wells, Hutton said. Bloomberg

Low oil prices could push Russia to curb new fields

MOSCOW, Feb 20 (Reuters) – Russia will consider linking the launch of new oil deposits to global crude prices, a policy that would allow oil firms to store up reserves and cut exploration budgets in times of low prices. The proposal was made at a Feb. 12 meeting of government officials and oil executives in […]

Another Source of non-OPEC oil output growth disappears

As I’ve said many times, the crucial role Russia played since the late 1990s as the main growth driver for non-OPEC oil production will be sorely missed. But the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) forecast three countries would step up in 2009 to reverse the 2008 fall in production: the US, Brazil, and Azerbaijan. Now […]

Colorado enjoys the spotlight on its renewables

Obama chose to sign stimulus bill there, touted ‘world’s first smart grid city’ DENVER – Colorado’s renewable energy promise was on the national stage this week when President Barack Obama chose Denver as the stage for signing the $787 billion economic stimulus package. The 250 or so renewable energy business leaders who attended the ceremony […]

California farms lose main water source to drought

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The main irrigation system for California farmers, the Central Valley Project, expects to halt water deliveries to most of its growers this year due to one of the worst droughts in state history, federal managers said on Friday. The zero-water allocation for most CVP users was declared by the U.S. Bureau […]

The most inspiring movement in the world: transition towns

Transition! It advances undeterred and unstoppable. A growing movement steps up to deal with the inevitable change facing humanity in the 21st century. America and the world face unprecedented challenges in the 21st century due to peak oil and unparalleled climate change which drives food scarcity. While the Today, at 306 million citizens, America adds […]

Is it selfish to have more than two children?

Is having more than two children selfish? The future of the planet rarely plays a part when planning a family, but that’s got to change, say environmental campaigners. Parents who have more than two children are “irresponsible” for placing an intolerable burden on resources and increasing damage to eco-systems, says a leading green campaigner. Curbing […]

Giant oil field decline rates and their influence on world oil production

by Mikael Hook, Robert Hirsch, and Kjell Aleklett The most important contributors to the world It is well known that oil production from many oil fields worldwide is in decline and that more fields transition into decline each year. In roughly mid 2004, total world oil production ceased to expand. Instead, new production has only […]

Mexico oil output lowest since November 1995

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican oil production fell 9.2 percent in January to its lowest level since November 1995 as output from the aging Cantarell oil field continued to dwindle, state oil company Pemex said on Friday. Mexico pumped 2.685 million bpd in January, down from 2.957 million bpd the same month a year ago, […]

Transportation chief eyes taxing miles driven

LaHood says current gasoline tax not enough to fund infrastructure WASHINGTON – Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says he wants to consider taxing motorists based on how many miles they drive rather than how much gasoline they burn “We should look at the vehicular miles program where people are actually clocked on the number of miles […]

Bill McKibben: Why I

On March 2, environmentalist Bill McKibben will join demonstrators who plan to march on a coal-fired power plant in Washington D.C. In this article for Yale Environment 360, he explains why he If you think about it a little longer, though, you realize this is just the moment to up the ante. For one thing, […]

John Michael Greer: The unnoticed technologies

…The cyclic interaction between settled urban societies and desert nomads depended on the maintenance of irrigation technologies first put into place by the ancient Sumerians. The slow march of climate change made irrigation more difficult and more necessary at the same time, and most desert civilizations had to direct a fair proportion of their economic […]

Kunstler

UNITED STATES On the upside, however, he also offers a vision of how Americans will be forced to make major changes in the world and to live in ways that will be sustainable. Kunstler, author of the books,

Newly poor swell lines at U.S. food banks

MORRISTOWN, New Jersey: Cindy Dreeszen and her husband live in one of the wealthiest counties in the United States. They have steady jobs, his at a movie theater and hers at a government office. Together, they earn about $55,000 a year. But with a 17-month-old son, another baby on the way, and, as Dreeszen put […]

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