Will Austin's Silicon Hills Supply Plug-In Hybrids' Techno Entrails? (Austin Chronicle: Thu, 27 Sep) Austin may have the guts to lead the plug-in-hybrid electric vehicle revolution in more ways than one. For more than three years now, Mayor Will Wynn , Austin Energy's Roger Duncan , and the city-run Plug-In Partners national campaign have been crisscrossing the nation, preaching the potential energy security and environmental benefits of electrifying the transportation grid by building PHEVs ...
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Fiddling with figures while the Earth burns (Times Online Sunday: Wed, 26 Sep) If you want to get some idea of what much of the Earth might look like in 50 years’ time then, says James Lovelock, get hold of a powerful telescope or log onto Nasa’s Mars website.
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Peak Oil Passnotes: The Only Way Is Up (Resource Investor: Fri, 21 Sep) It would be nice to find some bearish news to take the edge off the crude markets. Unfortunately there is none and the cranking up of rhetoric over Iran is the most worrying.
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Climate Change in N.H. forum in Exeter (Exeter News-Letter: Tue, 25 Sep) EXETER — The Seacoast Sustainable Living Community is sponsoring "Climate Change in New Hampshire: Welcome to Virginia!" a presentation and discussion by Dr. Barry Rock.
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UWSP sponsors BioTour visit today (Stevens Point Journal: Thu, 20 Sep) What happens when you get a vegetable oil-fueled bus, fill it with activists and take it around the country BioTour. A public awareness campaign to educate Americans on sustainable energy, global warming and peak oil, BioTour travels throughout the United States on the BioBus, an excellent example of a sustainable mode of transportation. Tours are available throughout the day at the Sundial ...
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A peek at the peak oil problem (Asia Times: Tue, 18 Sep) There are a few people who ask me to rebut the argument that oil will go down in price, thanks to a slowing world economy and the increased use of alternative energy resources and the "fact" that the world has zillions of barrels of oil still waiting to be pumped.
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BioTour at UWSP tomorrow (Stevens Point Journal: Wed, 19 Sep) Sponsored by the Student Government Association, the Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group (WISPIRG) and the Environmental Council, BioTour will hit the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point all day tomorrow. BioTour is a public awareness campaign to educate Americans on sustainable energy, global warming and peak oil. The BioBus, a mode of transportation that runs entirely on vegetable oil, ...
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Nobel conference to focus on energy (Mankato Free Press: Sat, 22 Sep) As fascinating as past Nobel conferences about genetics, globalization and Einstein may have been, here’s a topic to which almost everyone can relate, every time they pump gas.
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