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The SMH has an article on ASPO President Kjell Aleklett's Australian tour, looking at global warming scenarios considering peak oil and quoting ASPO Australia and TOD ANZ's Phil Hart - Emissions scenarios are based on flawed assumptions, says energy expert.The concept of a peak - maximum .. read full article »

(posted on behalf of David Baghdadi and Rob Goodwin, Rock Creek, WV.) Participants in the Fall Summit tree planting action, Kayford Mountain We at Climate Ground Zero would like to thank everyone that helped make the Mountain Justice Fall Summit on Kayford Mountain such a huge success.  In our .. read full article »

Everyone’s downstream is an annual conference that brings together community members, activists and others fighting the global infrastructure of the tar sands gigaproject. Click here to watch live streaming video of the conference. http://www.everyonesdownstream.org/ This year’s themes .. read full article »

We’ve carried a wide range of San Francisco based Orbeco’s Ion based cleaning supplies for a long time, and are just about the only place on the web you can get them!  It’s a long time favorite of our hospitality small business customers. Name: Guy de Lacrose, COO Company: Orbeco, Inc. .. read full article »

  There's no doubt about it. It’s been a challenging year for climate science and climate scientists, for journalists, and for the public. A string of legislative and regulatory disappointments coupled with dizzying political spin have left many more confused than ever about .. read full article »

Cleantechnica has a look at the long term performance of solar panels - Carter Era Solar Panel Performance Amazes Owner.A story in Green building advisor sheds some light on how long the solar panels on your roof just might keep on pumping out power.While most appliances only use energy, rather .. read full article »

The following is a recent dispatch from the Climate Reality Tour, a movement-building cycling tour from the coalfields of West Virginia to the UN Climate Talks in Cancún. 15 yrs ago I was COVERED with snow 11/24/2010 - Popocatéptl and Iztaccíhuatl. We never knew how much we could learn about .. read full article »

My Clean Break column takes a look at some of the new assumptions in Ontario’s latest 20-year electricity plan — assumptions that have changed dramatically since the previous plan was introduced (but never formally approved) three years ago. Electricity demand that we were supposed to reach .. read full article »

A short week with the holiday in the US, so a little spare on the links today: EnerNoc says it is well-Positioned to grow Demand Response market in PJM territory: $ENOC Jim DiPeso of Republicans for Environmental Protection, says "Don't let Congress handcuff EPA," in FrumForum. Stephen King .. read full article »

From curbing acid rain to restoring the ozone layer, perhaps the most important tool for protecting environmental health in the US is the Environmental Protection Agency.  Since its creation in 1970, the EPA has been instrumental in safeguarding the health of US residents exposed to air and .. read full article »

The ageing of power cables under extreme environmental conditions is now no longer a problem. The new WIND cable from the renowned and successful RADOX® family withstands the most adverse conditions and is therefore permanently reliable – over decades. read full article »

Shipments, which rose from 5 GW in the second quarter, were mainly to Germany, said the UK-based PV market intelligence firm. read full article »

ADB will invest $40 million to take a 25% stake in the company, along with India's NTPC Ltd (50%) and Japan's Kyushu Electric Power Company (25%). The bank aims to invest $2 billion a year in renewable-energy and energy-efficiency projects in Asia and the Pacific. read full article »

Electricity from the park, intended to reach 1.2 MW, would power the 70 businesses at the Westcott Venture Park, built on the site of the disused Westcott military airfield and rocket research centre, said Rockspring Property Investment Managers LLP. read full article »

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Unfortunately I broke my fibula in March (gymnastics) and did a lot of damage to the various talo-fibula ligaments in the process.  Those ligaments are still healing, and one part of my rehab is to do a lot of pseudo-barefoot work, mostly by wearing my Chaco sandles and Vibram KSOs during .. read full article »

Enbridge-Energy.jpg The Alberta government's multi-million dollar public relations campaign to spin dirty tar sands production in a positive light has by now received quite a bit of critical attention (see also here and here too).  They haven't just been investing .. read full article »

Released by the Sierra Youth Coalition OPEN LETTER TO THE PARLIAMENT OF CANADA FROM THE SIERRA YOUTH COALITION RE: BILL C-49: Preventing Human Smugglers from Abusing Canada’s Immigration System Act The Sierra Youth Coalition is deeply concerned about the new immigration and refugee .. read full article »

BusinessWeek has a look at a key agricultural input commodity, phosphate - Phosphate: Morocco's White Gold.Miners have been working in Khouribga for almost a century, but only now is the area poised to become central to the global economy. Back in the 1920s pioneers started tunneling through the .. read full article »

Greece offers excellent conditions for photovoltaic operations, with global irradiance levels between 1400 and 1700 kWh per m², said Schott Solar AG. read full article »

Work is due to start within at a week at a site next to an existing Ecotricity wind farm in Lincolnshire in northwest England, so the solar park can operate from March 2011, said the green energy supplier. read full article »

ABB, a Swiss-Swedish giant in power and automation technology, has provided £8 million ($12.6 million) while £3 million has come from existing shareholders, including Scottish and Southern Energy's ventures unit. read full article »

The Alberta tar sands are increasingly recognized as a major threat, not only moving us in the opposite direction from where we need to go to solve the climate crisis, but also with the enormous environmental and public health risks that tar sands development entails.  However, another major .. read full article »

The Climate Spectator has an article on the transition from the old model of "baseload" power generation to a new, more flexible system - Is baseload power necessary ?.For years, David Mills, the eminent solar energy technology developer, has dreamed of creating a new model for an energy system .. read full article »

This is a guest post by Mike Casey, cross-posted from ScalingGreen.com.Despite overwhelming evidence that anthropogenic climate change is real, potentially catastrophic, and accelerating, the theft of the East Anglia emails a year ago was turned into “Climategate” by the dirty energy .. read full article »

Americans take our security pretty seriously.  Ever since the color-coded threat level was introduced, we’ve quietly gone along with indignities like highway checkpoints and restrictions on who can use public libraries.  The latest indignity?  ‘Enhanced Patdowns’ for air travelers that .. read full article »

Every extractive industry deeply affects the relationship between people on the land and their newly manufactured landscape. The incredibly rapid development of the tar sands in Northern Alberta is having a profound affect on the culture, lifestyle and health of the First Nations. Conversely, .. read full article »

China to outstrip EU’s higher CO2 reduction plans: A European Union proposal to raise the bloc’s target for cutting CO2 emissions would have only a limited impact on global warming as any benefit would be easily offset by China’s growing emissions, the International Energy Agency’s .. read full article »

Six years ago today I launched The Green Skeptic as a blog devoted to challenging assumptions about how we live on the earth and protect our environment. It's been fun and I'm cooking up a lot of changes for my 7th inning ahead. For the 5th anniversary last year, I wrote: People often ask me .. read full article »

With few government heads expected in Mexico, influence will come behind the scenes, not in front of a camera By Stacy Feldman What a difference a year makes for climate change activism. Twelve months ago, thousands of .. read full article »

Technology Review has an article on a gargantuan Chinese biogas project - Chinese Project Puts Cow Dung to Work.A rapidly growing industry in China—dairy farming—is also a major new source of greenhouse-gas emissions. But Huishan Dairy in northeast China is trying to change this by .. read full article »

IN THIS EDITION: 1.FERC opens a rulemaking on variable energy resources. 2.FERC extends the comment deadline in the appeals by wind farms registered for transmission reliability functions. 3.FERC denies a petition to protect priority to interconnection capacity rights. read full article »

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Just imagine taking your sick son or daughter to the hospital after dark and having the doctor examine the child by candlelight. Or walking 10 miles to the hospital for treatment after being bitten by a rabid dog and discovering that the vaccination you need is located an additional 100 miles .. read full article »

Actively managed clean energy funds have been producing better returns than index funds, despite much higher expenses. read full article »

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If US Doesn’t Price Carbon, Could Nations Boycott American Products?: British economist and lead climate negotiator Lord Nicholas Stern (of the famous Stern report) issued something of a warning to the United States last week. He effectively argued that if the US fails to address climate .. read full article »

Here we go again. I would ask you to read the piece, China Steps Forward on Climate Change with one of my most often quoted phrases in mind (”you’re telling me what you need, and I’m telling you what you’ve got”). After reviewing some of China’s steps to improve energy efficiency, .. read full article »

Live Webinar Nov. 30 1 PM ET / 10 AM PTNew sourcing techniques for natural gas have a great potential impact on the makeup of global energy consumption for some time to come. The role that larger natural gas supplies will play in a push by many countries toward more renewable fuel sources may .. read full article »

Weak legal definitions of "forest" and "degraded land" are allowing logging industry to take advantage of an ambitious UN forest rescue scheme by John Vidal, Guardian Indonesia plans to class large areas of its remaining .. read full article »

corn-worse-than-oil-california.jpg At a green business conference on Monday, Al Gore admitted that his support for corn ethanol subsidies was a mistake. This news comes weeks before tax credits are up for renewal. U.S. tax breaks for ethanol make it profitable for refiners to .. read full article »

There’s a new program at George Fox University, just outside of Portland, Oregon – Christian Earthkeeping. The University describes its program by saying, “Christian Earthkeeping is the Church’s response to the ecological crisis and to God’s command to ‘keep’ the Earth (Genesis .. read full article »

600 Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrids are now being driven daily in the U.S., Europe, and Japan. Commercial, government, and university fleets and individual drivers are putting this advanced Prius through its paces. Toyota is targeting 50,000 unit commercial sales in 2012 of this PHEV. Two new .. read full article »

In the search for what's next, a range of options including civil disobedience, state-level action, and continued work on Capitol Hill By Elizabeth McGowan WASHINGTON—Barely a week ago, Senate Majority Leader Harry .. read full article »

CAPP-ad-jam.jpeg Are you sick and tired of the greenwashing efforts by the Alberta government and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) to paint Canada’s toxic tar sands as ‘clean’?Greenpeace Canada is launching an ad-jamming contest to combat the .. read full article »

The Australian has a report on Energy Australia's smart grid progress in NSW - 15,000 smart homes planned for NSW.POWER company EnergyAustralia will rely on Ericsson technology to deliver the first national smart grid, in a deal worth up to $12 million.Ericsson will provide equipment, software .. read full article »

The SMH has a look at the impact of peak oil on tax revenues - Better cars, less oil mean fuel tax revenue will dry up.FUEL taxes will become an increasingly unreliable source of revenue for governments as the supply of oil diminishes and cars become more fuel-efficient, a report .. read full article »

CNet has a post on a hybrid battery-ultracapacitor - Hybrid storage melds battery, ultracapacitor.In the geeky world of energy storage, there are well-understood limitations to plain old batteries and to ultracapacitors, devices able to store relatively little energy but also deliver big bursts .. read full article »

WorldChanging notes that a new edition of their book will be released next year - Announcing the New Worldchanging Book!.We are extremely pleased to be able to announce the new edition of Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century, to be released this spring (and already available for .. read full article »

The WSJ has a look at Chinese coal production - China's Coal Crisis. I'm not much of a believer in imminent peak coal globally (or even in the next few decades - other than through a drop in demand) but Chinese resources may be constrained compared to local demand.The idea of peak oil—the .. read full article »