Newsom's fresh idea: mandates on healthier food (San Francisco)

…All city departments have six months to conduct an audit of unused land – including empty lots, rooftops, windowsills and median strips – that could be turned into community gardens or farms that could benefit residents, either by working at them or purchasing the fresh produce. Food vendors that contract with the city must offer […]

U.K. Needs More Nuclear Power, Less Gas and Wind, McKinsey Says

(Bloomberg) — The U.K. needs to invest more in nuclear power and less in natural gas and wind to meet its emission-reduction targets, McKinsey & Co. said in a report for the Confederation of British Industry. The European Union Otherwise, reaching the nation

Plan now for the flight from oil

Downward trends in car travel and surging public transport usage mark a turning point in history and a challenge for policymakers and politicians. For the past 40 years or so, the game has been to plan for more car traffic and less public transport use. Oil may have taken a back seat in the headlines […]

Months after ash spill, Tennessee town still choking

HARRIMAN, Tennessee (CNN) — Pamela Hampton stands at the kitchen sink, her gaze trained out of the window of her family’s small hillside home. The disaster site is not visible from where she stands, but she knows it is there, down the hill, around a short stretch of highway, less than a mile away. Six […]

Gas pipe deal aims to end Russia's monopoly

Officials from six countries gathered Monday in Turkey and signed a deal to build a U.S.-backed pipeline, aimed at breaking Russia’s near-monopoly on natural gas supplies to Europe. The proposed Nabucco pipeline would run from Turkey’s eastern border, through Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary, to a key gas terminal in Baumgarten, Austria.Germany is also a partner […]

For many, a simpler life is better

Shrinking paychecks and rising environmental concerns are prompting Americans to pare back their lifestyles. “Perhaps the silver lining (of the recession) is that people are coming to realize they can live with less and their lives are richer for it,” says Michael Maniates, professor of political and environmental science at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa. […]

Baby Boomers Your Financial & Economic Winter is Coming, The Fourth Turning

…It is very likely that Barack Obama will lead the country into the next Crisis. He will not lead us out of the Crisis, as it is unlikely to subside until 2025. As the Unraveling transitions into Crisis the apathy reflected in historic low voter turnout will reverse itself as Americans become mobilized by the […]

Lynch: Oil and gas industry will produce oil to meet consumer needs

By Michael Lynch Entering 2010, the market will see fewer barrels coming on line. Erosion of existing supply will continue. OPEC will, no doubt, hold the line and the result will be a firmer market tone which will reduce but not eliminate volatility. Producers have now accepted that demand rates will not return to the […]

Oil price drop crimps energy profits, drags down stocks

Troubles in the oil patch are spilling into Wall Street as investors worry the same things hurting crude prices will injure the stock market, too. Slack worldwide demand for energy and concern that the economic recovery will be slower than hoped are pushing oil prices down and threatening the profits and stock prices of energy […]

Shell Open to Offshore Drilling

One of the largest petroleum companies in the world, Royal Dutch Shell retains its strength in the upstream market through steady exploration and development drilling. While the price of oil and gas dropped in the last year, Shell has continued its strategy of increasing upstream developments, but reined in the number of projects launched in […]

Twenty ideas that could save the world

Anyone watching an hour or two of the “hearings” in Manchester last weekend on which this report was based could not fail to have been similarly cheered. The idea behind them was simple: we hear endlessly about the havoc unabated climate change will wreak, about long-term emissions targets and diplomatic wrangling over who will commit […]

Yahoo! Finance proclaims that America has broken its addiction to oil.

The writer or the piece, Jay Yarrow, uses the following logic: WeChris Steiner

Thorium nuclear power

The uranium that makes conventional nuclear power possible has a number of significant disadvantages. For one thing, uranium reactors generate large quantities of waste. Much of this remains dangerous for thousands of years, and a proportion of it can be used to produce weapons-grade plutonium. A second issue is that uranium is a comparatively scarce […]

In Africa, Obama remains diplomatic on oil and guns

Behind all the inspirational words and “Yes we can” sound bites of Barack Obama’s first presidential visit to sub-Saharan Africa, questions are lingering about two key issues that formed a tacit subtext to his visit: oil and military bases. Mr. Obama’s visit on the weekend to Ghana, so early in his presidential term, is the […]

McKibben: Engine trouble

The book Two Billion Cars arrives in stores at the close of a quarter that has seen auto sales plummet 30, 40, even 50 percent, depending on the manufacturer. The Big Three went to Washington to plead for a handout (and Toyota has passed GM as the world’s biggest automaker, even though its sales are […]

Chills of Global Cooling

As cap-and-trade advocates tie their knickers in knots over so-called “global warming,” Mother Nature refuses to cooperate. Earth’s temperatures continue a chill that began 11 years ago. As global cooling accelerates, global-warmists kick, scream, and push their pet theory ― just like little kids who cover their ears and stomp their feet when older children […]

Peak oil means peak food as well

Optimism about our future is compulsory. It is politically incorrect to profess anything else. No matter what problems we face – ecological overshoot, global warming, energy decline, overpopulation – we must nevertheless be optimistic and hopeful that we will find solutions. People who do not believe that we will overcome our difficulties and continue ever […]

Oil giants tremble at Nigeria's oil reforms

A proposed law aimed at sweeping reforms of Nigeria’s oil sector is almost halfway through the legislative stages of approval but some of its provisions are sending jitters among giant oil operators. Multinational oil companies, already buckling under incessant militant attacks which have cut production by about 30% in the past three years, back the […]

Iraq eyes post-war oil export high in July

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iraq aims to boost oil exports in July to their highest level since before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 and to pump even more in August, a top oil official said on Sunday. Rising output and the rally in oil prices this year had eased pressure on the government, Falah Alamri, the […]

Lima: Desert city in need of water

…The Atacama Desert is a long, arid zone that hugs the west coast of South America. To the west is the Pacific Ocean and to the east are the Andes, one of our planet’s great mountain ranges. Snow and rain fall in the Andes for several months each year. Most of the runoff heads into […]

Back to the land: the next gen

Urban agriculture is healthy, environmentally friendly and it’s gaining ground Sonja Myllymaki made a major career change this summer, from letter carrier to full-time farmer. And she didn’t leave the city to do it. She didn’t have land of her own, but she found a way around that, too. She found vacant lots, she rented […]

Alaska natural gas gets new competition

LOWER 48: Improved drilling techniques in shale, sand unlock huge reserves. If there weren’t already enough barriers to building a gas pipeline from Alaska’s North Slope, the Lower 48 recently entered its biggest-ever natural gas boom. Just as the prospects for the Alaska gas line seem to be growing brighter, new drilling techniques have unlocked […]

Farming in the city

The local food movement is putting down deep roots in Edmonton, spreading from restaurants and backyards to new business models for farmers and consumers On a hot Saturday in late June, a dozen serious-minded people cram into Ron Berezan’s backyard. They’re checking for aphids on his tomato plants, eating the few ripening Russian honey berries […]

Richard Heinberg: "We Have Reached The Global Limits To Growth"

A year ago, oil price reached a record $ 147 per barrel. The whole world turned to Saudi Arabia, the traditional swing producer, for extra production to quench its oil thirst. But the Kingdom declared it was unable to do anything about it, signaling the end of cheap oil and thus long term economic growth, […]

How $30/Barrel Oil Could Save the World

The UK and France took action last week to limit speculation in oil prices. The US government is also seeking a way to limit oil price speculation. It is obvious that lower oil prices can help most corporations and also help people in the price of gas they pay at the pump, which in turn […]

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Britain's green revolution will power economic recovery

By Gordon Brown I am determined that Britain will be at the forefront of the transition to low-carbon societies. Not only because it is our moral duty to future generations and because climate change, caused largely by the richest nations, hits the poorest and most vulnerable hardest. But because this new approach will underpin our […]

Is Sustainable Development sustainable?

Consulting an on-line Dictionary, a definition for Sustainability can be retrieved as the ability to perpetuate existence. In the same resource the definition for Development will be given as growth or progress. A concept gathering these two words together forms what the Greeks termed an oxymoron, an idea devoid of logical sense. Can Sustainable Development […]

Climate change may displace millions in Mekong Delta: report

A report jointly written by experts from the United Nations, CARE International, and the Earth Institute of Columbia University estimates more than 14 million residents in the Cuu Long River Delta could lose their rice fields if sea levels were to rise by two meters. In Vietnam, the Cuu Long, as the Mekong River is […]

Iran preparing package for talks with West

Iran is preparing a package of proposals to present to Western powers that could be a basis for future talks, the country’s foreign minister said Saturday. Manouchehr Mottaki told a news conference that the package deals with political and economic issues as well as security and international affairs but did not say whether its proposals […]

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