September 2009
Drumbeat: September 27, 2009 →
‘A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster’ by Rebecca Solnit
The bad news is that more disasters are coming, arising from any number of sources: climate…
Permeability and Initial Oil Production →
This is part of Heading Out’s Sunday tech talk series.
We got oil! We have put together the drill, mounted it on the derrick, circulated mud and drilled a well and used casing to line it, and a…
Drumbeat: September 28, 2009 →
The 1.258 trillion-barrel question
The Earth contains a finite amount of oil. Burned to power our vehicles, heat our homes and light our cities, this fuel is a nonrenewable resource. So when…
The Second Wave of Mining →
The author with a group of Romani people (also known as gypsies) in front of a pile of scrap iron, collected for recycling. That pile has been there for more than a year. The recycling activity…
Maribyrnong City Council Peak Oil Contingency Plan →
As one of a team of three at The Institute for Sensible Transport working on this project, I’m very pleased to be able to announce Australia’s first Peak Oil Contingency Plan, developed by…
LGIU launches Sustainable Social Care Learning... →
LGIU launches Sustainable Social Care Learning Network Gov Monitor The lgiu has launched a new national learning network on sustainable social care, sponsored by…
Sustainability chairman helps to 'green' Frederick... →
Sustainability chairman helps to ‘green’ Frederick County Frederick News Post (subscription) Briggs, an Emmitsburg real estate appraiser, is the chairman of…
Sustainable farm practices needed - Omaha... →
Sustainable farm practices needed Omaha World-Herald Heinberg, the senior fellow in residence at the Post Carbon Institute, has written eight books about …
Green architect will talk about possibilities and... →
Green architect will talk about possibilities and barriers to … OregonLive.com The San Francisco-based architect will riff on sustainable design, organic…
Students' solar-powered, sustainable house is... →
Students’ solar-powered, sustainable house is DC-bound OSU - The Lantern OSU President E. Gordon Gee also spoke at the send-off, saying that the project aligns…
Reducing a marathon's carbon footprint - Baltimore... →
Reducing a marathon’s carbon footprint Baltimore Sun Lee Corrigan, president of Corrigan Sports Enterprises, the event organizer, said the sustainability goals…
Macalester Colleges Sustainability Plan - a New... →
Macalester Colleges Sustainability Plan - a New Approach to Green? Minneapolis Star Tribune St. Paul’s Macalester College released its Sustainability Plan on…
Sustainable design honored at architecture awards... →
Sustainable design honored at architecture awards Bizjournals.com Sustainable design was celebrated Saturday night at the 2009 Celebrate Architecture Awards…
Drumbeat: September 26, 2009 →
Our oil, U. S. need
Canada’s oilsands may take a daily beating in the international media and from environmentalists, but the arithmetic of U. S. consumption and supply all but ensures a long,…
Debt/Resource Thought Experiment: How Would YOU... →
The past few days, delegates from 20 of the worlds largest economies met in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania to further develop international strategies to deal with the ongoing financial, energy and social…
New Yorkers Celebrate Sustainability in Brooklyn -... →
New Yorkers Celebrate Sustainability in Brooklyn Brooklyn Daily Eagle Tobol@brooklyneagle.net), published online 09-25-2009 By Sarah Tobol BOROUGH HALL — To…
Planting The Seeds For Sustainability - Forbes →
Planting The Seeds For Sustainability Forbes Agricultural companies that make sustainability the goal hope to benefit the environment and their bottom lines….
Sustainability center stage at summit - Steamboat... →
Sustainability center stage at summit Steamboat Pilot Panelists Luann Rudolph and Kim Wheels spoke about linking technology and people to cut carbon emissions in…
TEXT: G20 Final Communique - Framework for Growth... →
Globe and Mail
TEXT: G20 Final Communique - Framework for Growth Reuters In it, the G20 pledged to keep emergency economic supports in place until …
G20 leaders try to lay groundwork for sustainable,... →
G20 leaders try to lay groundwork for sustainable, balanced growth Xinhua The G20 leaders have committed to additional steps to ensure strong, sustainable, and…
P&G, HDR, ISC Highlight Sustainability at Clinton... →
Environmental Leader
P&G, HDR, ISC Highlight Sustainability at Clinton Global … Environmental Leader As an example, the Institute for Sustainable…
Electrolux Named to Dow Jones Sustainability World... →
Electrolux Named to Dow Jones Sustainability World Index American Coin-Op INWOOD, NY — Electrolux has once again been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World…
Drumbeat: September 25, 2009 →
Denninger: The Horrible Conundrum Facing The Fed
But Japan had an advantage we do not - a weak currency benefited to a tremendous degree their exporters, and they are an export-based economy. As…
Peak Oil Not a Problem According to NY Times;... →
Recently, we have had two new articles aiming to put to rest people’s fears about peak oil. One is from the New York Times:
Oil Industry Sets a Brisk Pace of New Discoveries
It talks about the…
Electrolux Named to Dow Jones Sustainability World... →
IBTimes
Electrolux Named to Dow Jones Sustainability World Index American Laundry News INWOOD, NY — Electrolux has once again been named to the Dow…
Green Partners: Duvall Caterin and Event Design... →
Green Partners: Duvall Caterin and Event Design and the … PRLog.Org (press release) PRLog (Press Release) – Sep 24, 2009 – Duvall Catering & Event Design is…
New sustainability director begins duties -... →
New sustainability director begins duties Advance Titan 1, UW-Oshkosh professor of biology Michael Lizotte was named Oshkosh’s interim director of campus …
Reportlinker Adds Sustainable ('Green') Packaging... →
Reportlinker Adds Sustainable (‘Green’) Packaging Market for Food … PR Newswire (press release) Once thought of as only recycling, sustainability refers the…
Town Hall-style meeting highlights need for... →
Town Hall-style meeting highlights need for greater sustainability … Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber Environmental sustainability turned out to be the top…
Local Trio Starts Year-Long Chronicle Of... →
NY1
Local Trio Starts Year-Long Chronicle Of Sustainability Efforts NY1 This week is Climate Week in New York City, but three local filmmakers are…
P&G Announces Billion Dollar Commitment Towards... →
Brandweek Magazine
P&G Announces Billion Dollar Commitment Towards Sustainable … PR Newswire (press release) At the conference’s annual meeting in…
LaHood seeks to improve sustainability - NYU... →
LaHood seeks to improve sustainability NYU Washington Square News US Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood spoke on how sustainability relates to transportation…
5 Tips to Optimize the Financial Sustainability of... →
5 Tips to Optimize the Financial Sustainability of the Gluten-free … Seattle Post Intelligencer Gluten-free (GF) diets can be costly. The availability of GF…
Walmart Digs In Deep to the Sustainability Index -... →
GreenBiz
Walmart Digs In Deep to the Sustainability Index Reuters So said Rand Waddoups, Walmart’s senior director for sustainability, during an…
Drumbeat: September 24, 2009 →
The population delusion
THINK of the biggest crowd you’ve ever been in - perhaps 50,000 in a sports stadium. Just 6 hours from now there will be that many more people in the world, and another…
Passive Solar Design Overview - Part 5: ... →
This is a guest post from Will Stewart, a Systems Engineer in the energy industry. In this final article in the passive solar design overview series (see Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4), we will…
Obama's UN Climate Summit has Some Sustainability... →
Triple Pundit
Obama’s UN Climate Summit has Some Sustainability Proponents Worried Triple Pundit Several world leaders met in New York Tuesday for a UN…
BoE's Barker-sustainability of recovery still... →
BBC News
BoE’s Barker-sustainability of recovery still unclear Forbes LONDON, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Recent economic data has been encouraging but it…
Jackson Appoints Sustainability Chief, Council -... →
Jackson Appoints Sustainability Chief, Council 90.3 WCPN ideastream® In the city Hall rotunda, the Mayor swore in Andrew Watterson as his new Sustainability…
Caterpillar Inc. Named in Newsweek's Top 100... →
Reuters Blogs (blog)
Caterpillar Inc. Named in Newsweek’s Top 100 Greenest Companies in … PR Newswire (press release) 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ —…
Sustainability fair this weekend - Asheville... →
Sustainability fair this weekend Asheville Citizen-Times BARNARDSVILLE — The 3rd annual True Nature Country Fair will celebrate sustainable living…
CivicUS Releases Research Notes on Changing Roles... →
CivicUS Releases Research Notes on Changing Roles and Regulations … PR Newswire (press release) “Achieving Sustainability: Is Business Ready?” considers the…
P&G Announces Billion Dollar Commitment Towards... →
Reuters
P&G Announces Billion Dollar Commitment Towards Sustainable … PR Newswire (press release) At the conference’s annual meeting in New York…
Motorola Named Sustainability Leader by Dow Jones... →
3G (press release)
Motorola Named Sustainability Leader by Dow Jones Sustainability … CSRwire.com (press release) “Motorola is proud of the progress…
Maui County Energy Alliance Outlines a Sustainable... →
Maui County Energy Alliance Outlines a Sustainable Future Maui Weekly Release of working group recommendations provides a comprehensive overview of renewable, …
Book Review - Crude World: The Violent Twilight of... →
Introduction
It succors and drowns human life. And for the last eight years, oil — and the people and places that make it — was my obsession. - Peter Maass
Today a new book by Peter…
Drumbeat: September 23, 2009 →
Chesapeake says $4 natgas too low to grow output
GREENWICH, Conn. (Reuters) - U.S. natural gas prices will have to move higher to spur a resurgence in drilling activity and keep output of the…
ASPO-USA Denver Conference Oct. 11 - 13 Reminder →
This is a guest post from ASPO-USA.
2009 ASPO International Peak Oil Conference is less than three weeks away, October 11-13, 2009. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear up to date information,…
Energetics of cultivation: draft animals vs.... →
The energy use by the agricultural sector of the economy has been widely discussed and debated in the peak oil community. The amount of energy used directly at farms is not very large; typical…