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LNG exports have become a hot-button issue and enmeshed with the fate of an energy efficiency bill and a vote on approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. ...

SLAPPing is a tactic often used in the USA, where companies intent on environmental destruction pre-emptively sue leading local campaigners in order to quash the local opposition. ...

Ever wish you could live at your CSA? Or move to a neighborhood where everyone is as excited about fresh, healthy food as you are? ...

TV news, as we pointed out recently in a FAIR study..., is intensely interested in extreme weather. But coverage that links weather events to climate is extremely rare. ...

Acorn Community Farm is an egalitarian community founded in 1993. ...

As the ‘airpocalypse‘ news out of China continues to grow, what we predicted more than a year ago is now increasingly obvious – China’s seemingly endless coal demand is a myth, and the Chinese coal boom is over. What we often hear about a never-ending demand for coal in China has turned out to be […]...

Under all our cheerful tallying of disasters there is always the one we don’t talk about: poverty. We can talk about overpopulation, resource depletion, climate change, political corruption, maybe even war, crime, epidemics, credit collapse, whatever, but in the coming years what the average person is going to be thinking about, first thing in the […]...

China and Russia signed an eleventh hour agreement to import natural gas from Russia’s Gazprom during a state visit by President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday following strenuous Russian efforts to secure what has been portrayed as a key test of closer Sino-Russian ties.  As Moscow’s relations with the west have deteriorated over the crisis in […]...

Federal energy authorities have slashed by 96% the estimated amount of recoverable oil buried in California’s vast Monterey Shale deposits, deflating its potential as a national “black gold mine” of petroleum. Just 600 million barrels of oil can be extracted with existing technology, far below the 13.7 billion barrels once thought recoverable from the jumbled […]...

Beijing has ordered an “unprecedented” build up of oil reserves as West prepares for possible oil sanctions against Russia. China is stockpiling oil for its strategic petroleum reserve at a record pace, intervening on a scale large enough to send a powerful pulse through the world crude market. The move comes as tensions mount in […]...

  In this post I present a more detailed look at developments in central banks’ balance sheets, interest rates and the oil price since mid 2006 and as of recently. Paper and digital money are human inventions. Most people truly believe it is money that powers the society and their lives because they have never […]...

A professor claims his paper questioning the speed of climate change was deliberately rejected for publication due to intolerance of views seen as “sceptical” A climate change researcher has claimed that scientists are confusing their role as impartial observers with green activism after his paper challenging predictions about the speed of global warming was rejected […]...

Tatyana Haplichnik will present population trends and policies in the UNECE region at this international workshop. Organized by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), this International Workshop entitled “Population dynamics and sustainable development in CIS countries” will take place at the Parliamentary Centre of CIS Inter-Parliamentarian Assembly in St. Petersburg, Russia on 21 May 2014. The purpose...

The world faces an unprecedented global sustainability crisis. It is caused by climate change, the stress on the planet’s ecosystems by developed economies, and the drive for economic growth in the developing world. While some choose to believe that the scientific analyses detailing the threats to our planet are inaccurate, common sense tells me that […]...

* Oil major says fossil fuels will be needed through 2050 * Calls “carbon bubble” theory flawed in letter to shareholders * Says decarbonisation of energy sector will take decades * Predicts it could take rest of century to resolve climate change Royal Dutch Shell has dismissed the possibility that its proven oil or gas […]...

Slowly – but surely – the USD’s hegemony is being chipped away whether by foreign policy faux pas, crossed red-lines, or economic fragility. However, on Day 1 of Vladimir Putin’s trip to China it is clear that the two nations are as close as ever. VTB – among Russia’s largest banks – has signed a […]...

A Message about Post Carbon Institute’s newest creative project. ...

In a self-serving attempt to be recognised as a science, orthodox economics treats human input to its economic models as soulless homogeneous stereotyped behaviours and values. ...

Health is an outcome really, and everything that the Transition movement is doing is good for health because it’s about clean water, clean air, good food, safety, security, connection with nature and towns that are liveable. ...

...this spring the Garden Tower Project, offering a vertical garden design with worm composting right in the tower, is my best friend. ...