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Bi-Partisan Congressional Leaders Promote 'Peak Oil & Environment' Conference

Anita Laurin — Fri, 05 May 2006 11:08:58 -0700

Source: Congressman Bartlett's Office [May 04, 2006]

Washington, DC – May 5, 2006 – Congressmen Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) and Tom Udall (D-NM) urged immediate action to reduce America’s dependence upon oil and address climate change while endorsing an upcoming conference sponsored by the University of Maryland, "Sustainable Energy Forum 2006: Peak Oil and the Environment."

The bi-partisan leaders of the Congressional Peak Oil caucus, along with other conference presenters environmental leaders Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute, and Dan Lashof of the Natural Resources, Defense Council (NRDC), Roger Bezdek of Management Information Services, Inc. and University of Maryland College of Chemical and Life Sciences Dean Norma Allewell, discussed the global implications and urgency that these twin challenges present.

Central Ohio Relocalization Effort (CORE), Columbus, Ohio

Overshoot vs Undershoot

Anita Laurin — Tue, 09 May 2006 12:11:54 -0700

Attached is a great article from the Club of Rome which Professor Korpela has quoted from often. Essentially it describes where runaway population and "economic" growth, on a finite planet, has brought us.

The solution remains the same for us. Quotes from article:

"Survival of some elements of civilization will require lifeboats that can be constructed only from communities, regions, perhaps nations, that are not now in overshoot. To preserve civilization at least some of these must choose to stay out of overshoot, establish independence in the production of food, energy, materials, and crucial manufactured goods, and defend their borders.

Central Ohio Relocalization Effort (CORE), Columbus, Ohio

Great Opportunity to Reach Government Officials

Anita Laurin — Sun, 14 May 2006 17:40:35 -0700

The Sustainability Roundtable of Central Ohio recently had a great discussion on their listserv regarding cycling in our area. As I have been a cyclist for years it was encouraging to follow. Two of the members, Stu and Chris, offered great opportunities for us to contact local government regarding diverting funds away from more highway construction to rail, bus, bicycle and pedestrian transportation solutions.

Quotes from their recent communications:
**"If we wish to see better transit or recognition of Peak Oil in our transportation planning and projects, we can voice our concerns by sending an email to: I270-US33@morpc.org, which will officially be accepted through the end of May. We need to let the government (in this case ODOT) know that we have serious concerns about why and how this project [highway expansion] is being pursued."
Chris Gawronski
Principal Planner
Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission

**"But if we wait for our leaders to attain great insight into the obvious, the solutions we all seek will either not be addressed or be addressed piecemeal. We all (collectively and individually) need to become that voice in their ear that lets them know that the need and demand for more and better transit, passenger rail, bikeways and pedestrian accomodation, etc is here."
Stu Nicholson
Public Information Officer
Ohio Rail Development Commission

Below is the letter I am sending to
MORPC (I270-US33@morpc.org).We have til the end of May - they are looking for input NOW. Their fax # is 614-228-1904

I'm sending the same letter to my state Representative. (To locate contact information for your state representative:
http://www.house.state.oh.us/jsps/Representatives.jsp)

and my state Senator. (To locate contact informaion for your state senator:
http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/)

Let's send them our thoughts (they're spending our money). You are welcome to copy/paste anything I've written in the letter I am sending. Also, I have attached a word doc. version, should you wish to download and modify.
Anita

Central Ohio Relocalization Effort (CORE), Columbus, Ohio

Article about End of Suburbia showing on Columbus Indymedia

robbt — Mon, 15 May 2006 12:41:16 -0700

Hello everyone. I was at the screening for the conversation afterwards and I wrote a report about it for Columbus Indymedia.
The article is here if you want to read it. I basically tried to summarize the discussion and share some of the ideas and insights that people brought up, in order to spread awareness about the issue and the efforts underway in central ohio towards relocalization.

Central Ohio Relocalization Effort (CORE), Columbus, Ohio

Conferences on petrocollapse, sustainable economics & ecology, and local solutions

Anita Laurin — Tue, 23 May 2006 09:53:04 -0700

Published on Monday, May 22, 2006 by Culture Change
Lundberg on the recent Peak Oil conferences

http://www.energybulletin.net/16169.html
By Jan Lundberg
The clash of ecological economics and the technofix

Culture Change Letter #128
Conferences on petrocollapse, sustainable economics & ecology, and local solutions

The May 6th DC Petrocollapse Conference focused on the inevitability of collapse of the world economy due to the end of cheap oil and the lack of realistic technofixes. Solutions such as ecovillages and organic farming were emphasized, with all the concern and caveats that come from keen awareness of devastating climate change, the intransigence of the corporate state, and cultural change.

Central Ohio Relocalization Effort (CORE), Columbus, Ohio

Ohio Senate Passes Ohio Hub Resolution

Anita Laurin — Wed, 24 May 2006 15:42:32 -0700

NEWS
OHIO RAIL DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 24, 2006

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Hamilton, Ontario Evaluates their Community for Peak Oil

Anita Laurin — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 04:28:32 -0700

Hamilton, Ontario hired Richard Gilbert to assess Hamilton's long term plans. Gilbert is the research director at the Centre for Sustainable Transportation and a transport consultant to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

"staff doesn't know what to do with Richard Gilbert's peak oil report; adopting it would mean throwing out most of Hamilton's long-term growth strategy."

The report, "Toward a New Vision Hamilton" is attached. Or can be accessed at http://www.relocalize.net/files/HamiltonOntario_NewVision.pdf

AL
Central Ohio Relocalization Effort (CORE), Columbus, Ohio

“taking on the big question from a place small enough to yield practical results

Anita Laurin — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 10:16:44 -0700

Published on Thursday, June 22, 2006 by Energy Bulletin
Fun while it lasted
By Stephanie Mills

Excerpt:
"In early 2002, picking up my first copy of Richard Heinberg's brilliant MuseLetter, I collided with his series of articles on Peak Oil, (later issued in book form by New Society Publishers as The Party’s Over and Power Down). Reading the MuseLetter on Peak Oil and its possible consequences was very like being in the passenger seat of that Chevy Capri confronting an oncoming vehicle and discovering that the best I could hope for from the situation was to learn some physics and anatomy the hard way. Heinberg's reasoned analysis of the evidence that oil (and natural gas) production are close to zenith and will decline; and his explanation of how utterly dependent much of the world's economy, particularly agriculture, is on fossil fuel, detailed the oncoming crash. I've always believed that relocalization could be a good thing, but living through a rapid default into it could be mighty rough. Serious demand-side responses to Peak Oil--households and regions growing most of their own food; staying home, cottage industry, walking, or diverting of federal taxes from armaments to railroads and other public transportation; inhabiting smaller, tighter houses in compact settlements and practicing Xtreme frugality--will take courage, work, and skills bygone as well as new. These latter can be difficult to acquire in a crisis. A way of life is something more than an easy-to-master assemblage of techniques."

"Apart from the fact that a high-tech megalopolis might not be everyone's ideal, something's missing from this vision. The catch to the “supply side” solutions like renewables, hydrogen or mini-nukes, which technological optimists imagine will forestall the energy crunch, is EROEI--energy returned on energy invested. The infrastructure within which such technological fixes would have to be produced presently runs on oil. Richard Heinberg’s caution regarding any crusade to switch business as usual over to hydrogen and renewables is “If it can’t be done without fossil fuels, it can’t be done." How much nonrenewable fuel must be expended in the manufacture of these new gadgets and facilities? After all, the people beavering away on fuel cells will still have to drive to their laboratories on asphalt (another petroleum product) roads."

Stephanie Mills is an author, lecturer and longtime bioregionalist. Her books include In Service of the Wild: Restoring and Reinhabiting Damaged Land (Beacon Press, 1995) and Epicurean Simplicity (Island Press, 2002). Since her emergence in 1969 as an ecological activist Mills has written prolifically, edited numerous periodicals, participated in countless conferences and served on the boards and advisory committees of dozens of ecologically oriented organizations from the local to national level. Since 1984 she has lived and worked in Northwest Lower Michigan. She is presently at work on a biography of Robert Swann.

Full version of article found at :
http://www.energybulletin.net/17488.html
Central Ohio Relocalization Effort (CORE), Columbus, Ohio

For Good or Ill, Boom in Ethanol Reshapes Economy of Heartland

Anita Laurin — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:30:41 -0700

New York Times
June 25, 2006

For Good or Ill, Boom in Ethanol Reshapes Economy of Heartland

By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO

Dozens of factories that turn corn into the gasoline substitute ethanol are sprouting up across the nation, from Tennessee to Kansas, and California, often in places hundreds of miles away from where corn is grown.

Once considered the green dream of the environmentally sensitive, ethanol has become the province of agricultural giants that have long pressed for its use as fuel, as well as newcomers seeking to cash in on a bonanza.

The modern-day gold rush is driven by a number of factors: generous government subsidies, surging demand for ethanol as a gasoline supplement, a potent blend of farm-state politics and the prospect of generating more than a 100 percent profit in less than two years.

The rush is taking place despite concerns that large-scale diversion of agricultural resources to fuel could result in price increases for food for people and livestock, as well as the transformation of vast preserved areas into farmland.

Even in the small town of Hereford, in the middle of the Texas Panhandle's cattle country and hundreds of miles from the agricultural heartland, two companies are rushing to build plants to turn corn into fuel.

As a result, Hereford has become a flashpoint in the ethanol boom that is helping to reshape part of rural America's economic base.

Despite continuing doubts about whether the fuel provides a genuine energy saving, at least 39 new ethanol plants are expected to be completed over the next 9 to 12 months, projects that will push the United States past Brazil as the world's largest ethanol producer.

The new plants will add 1.4 billion gallons a year, a 30 percent increase over current production of 4.6 billion gallons, according to Dan Basse, president of AgResources, an economic forecasting firm in Chicago. By 2008, analysts predict, ethanol output could reach 8 billion gallons a year.

For all its allure, though, there are hidden risks to the boom. Even as struggling local communities herald the expansion of this ethanol-industrial complex and politicians promote its use as a way to decrease America's energy dependence on foreign oil, the ethanol phenomenon is creating some unexpected jitters in crucial corners of farm country.

A few agricultural economists and food industry executives are quietly worrying that ethanol, at its current pace of development, could strain food supplies, raise costs for the livestock industry and force the use of marginal farmland in the search for ever more acres to plant corn.

See full article at : http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/business/25ethanol.html

Central Ohio Relocalization Effort (CORE), Columbus, Ohio

Peaksters on the Potomic

Anita Laurin — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 06:09:31 -0700

Published on 26 Jun 2006 by Energy Bulletin

by William J. Kelly

Excerpt:
"Yet other peaksters are focused on re-localizing the economy by reversing sprawl, eliminating most autos, and fostering local agriculture and manufacturing, spelling an end to the neo-liberal global economy. They call for cooperation among nations under an international oil depletion protocol that calls for an orderly “power down” as oil becomes depleted. They point to Cuba, which lost most of its oil under U.S. enforced economic sanctions, as an example of how a modern industrial society can maintain health care, science, education, and culture while shifting toward a largely localized, low energy economy. However, this would require dramatic lifestyle changes and self-sacrifice making it politically unpopular."

Full version of this article: http://www.energybulletin.net/17609.html
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Producing ethanol and biodiesel from maize is not worth the effort

Anita Laurin — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 06:25:48 -0700

Producing ethanol and biodiesel from maize is not worth the effort, new study finds (4/7/2006)

Following on from Bush's "addicted to oil" speech, plant-derived ethanol and biodiesel are being heavily promoted by the biotech industry as a much-needed - and environmentally friendly - outlet for the glut of genetically modified crops that consumers are rejecting, but...
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PRODUCING ETHANOL AND BIODIESEL FROM MAIZE IS NOT WORTH THE EFFORT, NEW STUDY FINDS
The Biowatch Bulletin - May/June 2006 [excerpt]

http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=6709

A new study from the University of Cornell and the University of Berkeley, California has found that turning plants, such as maize and sunflowers, into fuel, uses much more energy than the resulting ethanol or biodiesel generates. The study analysed energy input-yield ratios of producing ethanol from maize, switch grass and wood biomass as well as for producing biodiesel from soybean and sunflower plants. The report of the study, published in Natural Resources Research (Vol.14, 65-76) found that:

* maize needs 29% more fossil energy than the fuel it produced

* switch grass needed 45% more fossil fuel than fuel produced

* wood biomass needed 57% more fossil fuel than fuel it produced

* soybean plants needed 27% more fossil fuel than the fuel produced

* sunflower plants needed 118% more fossil fuel than the fuel produced

Swiss multinational Syngenta recently applied to the South African Department of Agriculture for permission to import genetically modified maize for conversion into ethanol. The maize will not be planted in South Africa. It will be imported in a ground form but Syngenta acknowledges that event could contaminate the food and feed chain. The company is also applying for permission to import in the United States of America, the European Union and China. Grain SA has objected to the application.
Central Ohio Relocalization Effort (CORE), Columbus, Ohio

Worse Than Fossil Fuel

Anita Laurin — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 06:28:50 -0700

Worse Than Fossil Fuel
December 6th, 2005
Biodiesel enthusiasts have accidentally invented the most carbon-intensive fuel on earth
By George Monbiot.

Published in the Guardian 6th December 2005

Over the past two years I have made an uncomfortable discovery. Like most environmentalists, I have been as blind to the constraints affecting our energy supply as my opponents have been to climate change. I now realise that I have entertained a belief in magic.

In 2003, the biologist Jeffrey Dukes calculated that the fossil fuels we burn in one year were made from organic matter "containing 44×10 to the 18 grams of carbon, which is more than 400 times the net primary productivity of the planet’s current biota."(1) In plain English, this means that every year we use four centuries’ worth of plants and animals.

The idea that we can simply replace this fossil legacy – and the extraordinary power densities it gives us – with ambient energy is the stuff of science fiction. There is simply no substitute for cutting back. But substitutes are being sought everywhere. They are being promoted today at the climate talks in Montreal, by states – such as ours – which seek to avoid the hard decisions climate change demands. And at least one of them is worse than the fossil fuel burning it replaces.

The last time I drew attention to the hazards of making diesel fuel from vegetable oils, I received as much abuse as I have ever been sent by the supporters of the Iraq war. The biodiesel missionaries, I discovered, are as vociferous in their denial as the executives of Exxon. I am now prepared to admit that my previous column was wrong. But they’re not going to like it. I was wrong because I underestimated the fuel’s destructive impact.

Before I go any further, I should make it clear that turning used chip fat into motor fuel is a good thing. The people slithering around all day in vats of filth are perfoming a service to society. But there is enough waste cooking oil in the UK to meet one 380th of our demand for road transport fuel(2). Beyond that, the trouble begins.

When I wrote about it last year, I thought that the biggest problem caused by biodiesel was that it set up a competition for land(3). Arable land that would otherwise have been used to grow food would instead be used to grow fuel. But now I find that something even worse is happening. The biodiesel industry has accidentally invented the world’s most carbon-intensive fuel.

See full article: http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/12/06/worse-than-fossil-fuel/
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Free Busses and Light-rail

Anita Laurin — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 05:08:22 -0700
Interview with Dr. Bakhtiari, who was one of the contributors in the End of Suburbia.

"However in the few years left in his transition model, Dr Bakhtiari says Western Australia may be a model for the world with its approach to public transport, providing free buses and a light-rail system throughout the suburbs."

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2006/s1683169.htm

Oil industry hits peak production

PM - Monday, 10 July , 2006 18:34:00

Reporter: Barney Porter
MARK COLVIN: A leading expert has warned that the world's oil industry has started to reach its peak production rate and is already in the first phase of a transition to an uncertain future.

Dr Ali Samsam Bakhtiari predicted on this program two years ago that the crisis would begin in 2006 or 2007.

Now he says the current estimates of oil reserves are grossly exaggerated and we are approaching a time when oil may reach $US 300 a barrel and demand will out-strip supply.

It may happen this decade.

Barney Porter has the story.

BARNEY PORTER: Dr Ali Samsam Bakhtiari says in one regard, the science is simple.

ALI SAMSAM BAKHTIARI: Crude oil is the master domino. When you tumble crude oil, all the other dominoes tumble, whichever they are. And that is what makes this peak oil so important.

BARNEY PORTER: Dr Bakhtiari has recently retired as a senior advisor for the National Iranian Oil Company in Tehran and has written several books and more than 65 papers on the Iranian and international oil and gas industry.

In a speech in Sydney today, he said the oil industry had hit a peak production of 81 million barrels per day, which would decline to 55 million barrels per day up to 2020.

And Dr Bakhtiari says there's another, more immediate problem, for the industry.

He says the last great find was in the 1990s in the so-called 'frontier areas' which included Alaska, the North Sea, Brazil and deeper off-shore sites.

They've since been developed until there are now only two left: the Arctic Ocean, and Antarctica.

ALI SAMSAM BAKHTIARI: I hope that the oil industry will not go into Antarctica but, today I am not so sure, you know, because when the price will be $200 or $300 per barrel, then anything can happen.

BARNEY PORTER: Dr Bakhtiari says Russia's production actually peaked in 2004 and has since been in decline, which will have major ramifications for Europe. He claims the Russian industry officials won't admit the facts because they still want to attract investors.

Dr Bakhtiari says the latest finds by the industry will add only, at most, a few days to the world's reserves.

ALI SAMSAM BAKHTIARI: We are consuming, world-wide, 30 billion barrels of oil every year. It is an enormous amount. But what is the industry finding? It is finding something between four and six only.

So every year that passes, that we have passed in this century, we had a deficit on consumption versus finds.

BARNEY PORTER: As to the future, Dr Bakhtiari describes a stage he calls "Transition One" where change will be slow and gradual, a sort of business as usual, because of the world's ongoing addiction to oil.

But he also says there's an element of uncertainty because traditional laws of economics are changing. Dr Bahktiari says in theory, if the price of oil is doubled, the demand should go down.

But he notes in the past four years the price has actually tripled and demand is still increasing.

ALI SAMSAM BAKHTIARI: We are entering a brand new world, a world that is totally different. We are used to this growth and we have been addicted to this growth.

BARNEY PORTER: However in the few years left in his transition model, Dr Bakhtiari says Western Australia may be a model for the world with its approach to public transport, providing free buses and a light-rail system throughout the suburbs.

ALI SAMSAM BAKHTIARI: The more you would invest in public transport and in rail, it would be a benefit, but naturally it is going to be expensive first. But if you spend every dollar that you spend today, it's much better than the dollar that you are going to spend tomorrow.

MARK COLVIN: Dr Ali Samsam Bakhtiari ending that report by Barney Porter.

And in tonight's Four Corners on ABC TV, Jonathan Holmes will be examining the issue of Peak Oil, as it's called, in a program which took him to the Middle East, the US and Europe to interview the key protagonists. That's at 8.30 on ABC television.
Central Ohio Relocalization Effort (CORE), Columbus, Ohio

ETHANOL INVESTING and the Hirsch Report

Anita Laurin — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:18:52 -0700

ETHANOL INVESTING: COUNTERPOINT
from Financial Sense University
by Robert Rapier
R-Squared Blogspot
June 23, 2006

Excerpts:
There is certainly no point in putting E85 pumps across the country, because the U.S. can’t make enough ethanol to justify them. Even as grain ethanol production scales up, it will displace less than 2% of U.S. oil imports. The reduction in fossil fuel usage is also next to nothing, because ethanol production is heavily dependent on fossil fuels. Likewise, this means greenhouse gas emissions are reduced by a very modest amount. The Department of Energy recently concluded that E85, the 85% ethanol blend, would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by a mere 4%. That’s because ethanol is primarily a recycled fossil fuel, with a very small portion of renewable energy thrown in.

Ethanol Investing

Some investors have certainly made money with ethanol stocks. Investors once made money on dot-coms as well. Making money is no indication that the underlying fundamentals are good. Some of those dot-coms still exist today, but many of them had unworkable business models and went bankrupt. I will argue that some ethanol companies are in the same boat.

The U.S. Department of Energy last year commissioned a study on mitigating the effects of a peak in worldwide oil production. This report, commonly referred to as The Hirsch Report (
www.netl.doe.gov/publications/others/pdf/Oil_Peaking_NETL.pdf), had the following to say about ethanol:

“The market for ethanol derived from biomass is influenced by federal requirements and facilitated by generous federal and state tax subsidies.”

And:

“Ethanol from biomass is currently utilized in the transportation market, not because it is competitive, but because it is mandated and highly subsidized.”

See full article: http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/rapier/2006/0623.html
Central Ohio Relocalization Effort (CORE), Columbus, Ohio

Is the Washington Post partly responsible for the immobility of the US Congress?

Anita Laurin — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:29:53 -0700

The Peak Oil Crisis - Where is the Washington Post?

By Tom Whipple
(Editor of ASPO - USA's Peak Oil Review)

If you live around Washington , DC and have much do with the federal government, then you probably read the Post. There are a few exceptions. If you are into finance or securities you reach for the Wall StreetJournal each day. If your politics are more than a few degrees to the right, you are going to be happier with the Washington Times, and if you are a deep thinker, then your day is not complete without the New York Times.

As a general rule, however, the tens of thousands who run our nation, or talk frequently to those that do, absorb their world outlook each day from the pages of the Washington Post.

For decades, the management and staff of the Post have always taken this responsibility very seriously, as "the" newspaper of our nation's capitol they have a special responsibility to see that our leaders and their advisors are kept fully informed with the latest information and best thinking about nearly everything our federal government must confront. In most cases they have handled this responsibility very well amidst the shifting sands and political pressures of Washington .

However, for those of us who take seriously the possibility, or if you will, the probability, that further increases of any significance in world oil production are looking less likely all the time, the Post's near silence on the issue is an major anomaly.

For full article: http://www.fcnp.com/620/peakoil.htm
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City of Bloomington, Indiana Adopts Peak Oil Resolution

Anita Laurin — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 12:52:13 -0700
Teaser:

Another city wakes up . . .

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Is alt-energy a distraction from real solutions?

Anita Laurin — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 06:29:31 -0700
Author, Affiliation, Date:
Erik Curren of the Augusta Free Press, 7-17-06 Teaser:

Wind power is perhaps the most interesting test case of whether America's immediate energy future lies in alternative sources such as wind, conservation and power-down, or some combination of the two.

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Editorial: Area’s growth reinforces need for light rail

Anita Laurin — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:39:38 -0700
Author, Affiliation, Date:
Stu Nicholson's letter to the editor - Columbus Dispatch Teaser:

Great letter about the importance of rail

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Interest in corn based ethanol could put squeeze on other crops

Anita Laurin — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:30:54 -0700
Author, Affiliation, Date:
Monique Curet, Columbus Dispatch, Sep 21, 2006 Teaser:

Food versus fuel - the ongoing debate

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The U.S. could compete with Brazil in the industrial ethanol market

Anita Laurin — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 14:57:40 -0700
Author, Affiliation, Date:
Dow Jones Newswires Teaser:

What does runaway (subsidized) ethanol production mean for local food producers (unsubsidized) in the US?

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Raise the Gasoline Tax?

Anita Laurin — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 14:00:22 -0700
Author, Affiliation, Date:
Daniel Goss, NYT, October 8, 2006 Teaser:

This is the first time I've seen phrases like "gas tax", "gas rationing", "use less gasoline" and "reduce [gas] consumption" in a major US newspaper.
AL

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US POPULATION REACHES 300 MILLION - No Cause for Celebration

Anita Laurin — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:36:16 -0700
Author, Affiliation, Date:
Lester Brown, Earth Policy Institute, Oct 4, 2006 Teaser:

Albert Bartlett discusses the population problem brilliantly in his presentation: Sustainability: Arithmetic, Population and Energy which can be heard on Global Public Media. http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/lectures/461

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Using Livestock to make coal plants look better

Anita Laurin — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:50:33 -0700

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China’s Not Alone in Environmental Crisis

Toban Black — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:37:54 -0800

Sustainable Burlington

... So far the Bali deal is worse than Kyoto

Toban Black — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:48:08 -0800

Carp Ridge Ecowellness Centre (CREWC)