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Dave Cohen, someone I haven’t mentioned here in quite a while (mea culpa) has an excellent piece up on EnergyBulletin, talking about the current state of affairs in predicting future oil production, Staking Out the Middle Ground (emphasis added): This week the Guardian followed up on their initial story by highlighting the far more pessimistic Uppsala University . . . → Read More: The scary middle ground Will consumers plug into home energy displays?: Dozens of home energy monitors are coming to market, but nobody knows whether only hybrid Prius owners will use them. Whole home energy monitors, or displays, are designed to help consumers conserve energy by providing far more detailed information than a monthly bill. These types of devices are already available, but . . . → Read More: The limits of geektitude Air cars[1] have a unique appeal in energy and environmental discussions. I’m not sure what it is, exactly, that gives them a special place in the minds and hearts of so many of my fellow geeks. Perhaps it’s simply the notion of driving around using nothing but air as “fuel” (which is a misunderstanding, . . . → Read More: Air cars blown away Alexandra Cousteau started the Blue Legacy project in 2008 “to engage individuals around the world through telling the story of our water planet. … EXPEDITION: BLUE PLANET is the first major initiative of Blue Legacy to build and engage audiences around the world. It is a global exploration, traveling across five continents to more than eight . . . → Read More: Blue Legacy: Cambodia From the Statement of Union of Concerned Scientists (emphasis added): Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course. Human activities inflict harsh and often irreversible damage on the environment and on critical resources. If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future that we wish for human society and . . . → Read More: When scientists warn Lester R. Brown of the Earth Policy Institute as released Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. The home page for the book, including links to the free downloadables, is here. From the book’s preface: Several months ago I was reading an article in Newsweek on climate and energy when a line jumped off the page: “Business as usual . . . → Read More: Doc alert: Plan B 4.0 There are two PSAs (public service announcements) that have been running alot on the radio station I listen to in the office. I think they’re a perfect pair of examples of the right and wrong way to sell people on taking steps to reduce their energy consumption. One is from the US Dept. of Energy, and . . . → Read More: Time to get crazy Now here’s an interesting development, the ENSEMBLES Project: The ENSEMBLES project (contract number GOCE-CT-2003-505539) is supported by the European Commission’s 6th Framework Programme as a 5 year Integrated Project from 2004-2009 under the Thematic Sub-Priority “Global Change and Ecosystems”. The project aims to: Develop an ensemble prediction system for climate change based on the principal state-of-the-art, high resolution, global . . . → Read More: Doc alert: ENSEMBLES report The news about the upcoming climate conference/food fight/whatever in Copenhagen continues to reach new levels of weirdness. I’m doing my best to stay away from news about Copenhagen, simply because anyone who cares to can find more on it than he or she could possibly want, and I (usually) feel I don’t have anything new to add. . . . → Read More: Copenfloppen, again The new group, Electrification Coalition, has issued a report, Electrification Roadmap, which you can access by giving them your e-mail address. (They immediately e-mail you your own links to the screen and print resolution versions.) The report is 180 pages, which is about 32MB in screen res., and 95MB in print res. From the document’s . . . → Read More: Doc alert: Electrification roadmap |
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