Archive for March, 2009
The food and farming transition: toward a post carbon food system
Posted on March 31, 2009, under Uutiset, Öljyhuippu.
How can we continue feeding humanity in a future of declining resources and environmental crisis? This 41-page report explores the growing vulnerabilities of the global food system, and the steps needed to transition to a post-carbon food system.
Lähde: Energy Bulletin
Highlights of draft bill to curb global warming
Posted on March 31, 2009, under Sekalaista.
House Democratic leaders released a first draft of legislation to curb emissions from global warming.
Lähde: Topix
Florida bill would seek to generate more clean energy
Posted on March 31, 2009, under Sekalaista.
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Lähde: EIN News
House Democrats to unveil pollution reduction plan
Posted on March 31, 2009, under Sekalaista.
House Democrats outlined a plan Tuesday to cut greenhouse gases by 20 percent over the next decade and 83 percent by mid-century, proposing a speedier ramp-up of emission limits than urged by the White House.
Lähde: Topix
Blue Sky Energy Launches New Redesigned Website
Posted on March 31, 2009, under Sekalaista.
Blue Sky Energy, Inc., a leading manufacturer of photovoltaic (PV) battery charge controllers is pleased to announce the launch of our newly redesigned website.
Lähde: EarthToys
After the bird strike
Posted on March 30, 2009, under Uutiset, Öljyhuippu.
Against the backdrop of widespread economic carnage, the fact that global oil production likely peaked last summer seems almost irrelevant. The prevailing meme has long been that since oil created prosperity, peak oil would devastate it-but derivatives launched a pre-emptive strike.
Lähde: Energy Bulletin
New Wind Turbines for 11 Minnesota Cities
Posted on March 30, 2009, under Sekalaista.
This summer, Anoka, Buffalo, North St. Paul and 8 other Minnesota cities are gearing up for the production of wind energy. They will use recycled turbines for this purpose. In Buffalo, the work will start from June. After the completion of this project Buffalo will have the honor of the first city with [...]
Posted in: Industry, Wind Power, Wind Turbines
Lähde: Alternative Energy
Water & environment - 30 Mar
Posted on March 30, 2009, under Sekalaista, Uutiset.
Senate Testimony on the Energy Water Nexus
Drought Turns Water Into a Cash Crop
Water meters in every home ‘will prevent shortages’
Lähde: Energy Bulletin
Obama plans climate change summit
Posted on March 28, 2009, under Sekalaista.
US President Barack Obama has invited figures from the world’s 16 major economies to Washington for a meeting on climate change at the end of April.
Lähde: Topix
I am a banker. Some of us did not f*ck up.
Posted on March 28, 2009, under Sekalaista, Uutiset.
I am a banker. I’ve been financing projects in the energy sector for close to 15 years. … Banking has always been both a utility and a casino. … there needs to be a separation once again between the utility bits of banking, and the speculative bits. Both are - or at least, can be - useful, but only one is absolutely necessary, and that fact (the absolute need for a sound basic banking system) cannot and should be hijacked to protect the speculators from the consequences of their bets.
Lähde: Energy Bulletin
