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Oil production predicted to peak in 2014

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:55:10 +0000

Predicting the end of oil has proven tricky and often controversial, but Kuwaiti scientists now say that global oil production will peak in 2014.

Broadwind Drops, Sees First Half Bottom

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:01:00 +0000

Wind-power company Broadwind plummets on expected first half bottoming and weak fourth-quarter numbers.

PetroVietnam Gas inks $1bn pipeline

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:34:52 +0000

PetroVietnam Gas has signed a $1bn business co-operation contract to build and operate a pipeline running from the gas fields off Vietnam's southern coast to the Mekong Delta

Food & agriculture - Mar 12

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:04:44 +0000

-Grow your own' revolution receives major land boost
-Slow foodies are not cavemen
-What’s driving our favorite fruit into decline?
-A Backlash After San Francisco Labels Sewage Sludge "Organic"
-How Locavores Could Save the World
-Increasing Yields and Decreasing Fertilizer Waste on Subsistence Farms
-How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab
-Greenhouse project promotes self-sufficiency

Why Wind is a Better Bet Than Solar

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:45:00 +0000

JPMorgan shifts its cleantech investing theme, souring on solar and catching the wind. We sit down with the JPMorgan's alternative energy analyst to drill down on its sudden, total eclipse of the sun.

Why Wind is a Better Bet Than Solar

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:45:00 +0000

ODAC Newsletter - Mar 12

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:34:22 +0000

What do you do if you're an energy consultancy that finds itself on the wrong side of the peak oil argument just as much of the oil industry and the rest of the world embraces the idea? The solution devised by eternal optimists IHS CERA, hosting a conference in Houston this week, is to sidestep this embarrassing development by simply rebranding the problem: 'peak demand'.

Where the Commodities Are Heading

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:06:00 +0000

Gold, silver, oil and natural gas look as if they could move higher.

Renewables & efficiency - Mar 12

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:22:40 +0000

-EU to exceed 2020 green energy target: forecasts
-Quantum Physics Breakthrough: Scientists Find an Equation for Materials Innovation
-Solar PV has failed in Germany and it will fail in the UK

Health Is the Tipping Point to Identify and Eliminate GMOs

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:16:16 +0000

Are Americans willing to jeopardize their health with GMO foods? Probably not. And it might take only 15 million Americans or 5 percent of the U.S. population to establish a tipping point for change.

Gold Prices Sideways Amid M&A

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:50:00 +0000

Rising gold prices this year have been driving a wave of acquisition activities in the sector with at least three major deals being announced this week

Deep thought - Mar 12

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:20:50 +0000

-The Wrong Kind of Green
-Return of the natives
-A Lesson from the Great Depression
-Why Us, God?

Oil Moves Higher as Demand Seen Rising

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:24:00 +0000

Oil prices were higher Friday following a report from the International Energy Agency that said world oil demand would rise in 2010.

Vermont: Neighbors and Online Networks

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:56:19 +0000

When Michael Wood-Lewis and his wife, Valerie, moved from Washington, D.C., to the south end of Burlington, Vermont, in 1998, "we'd landed in what we thought was our dream neighborhood. It was walkable, near the lake, full of trees. But we were having trouble getting to know the neighbors.

Church in Our Times: Spirit and Security in the Face of Reality

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:41:28 +0000

We’ve been hearing for years that the mainline Protestant churches are on the wane in the United States, emptying out in an increasingly atomized society. And Catholicism has been clearly weakened by recent internal events. Is the Christian church only a force on the Right in the United States?

Oil Holds Above $82; Demand Seen Rising

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:29:00 +0000

Oil prices were holding above $82 a barrel following a report from the International Energy Agency that said world oil demand would rise in 2010.

Energy: A foot on the gas

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:23:01 +0000

Energy: Enthusiasm for shale deposits – part of a wider revival for a fuel that could cut carbon emissions and transform global politics – is tempered by risks to investors

Getting the story right

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:22:28 +0000

Despite everything that has transpired to reveal the deep structural flaws in our economy and its main theories, few in the media and government seem to be able to grasp the concept that the story has changed and that all efforts to perpetuate ‘the story’ will only prolong the agony and make things worse.

Heading home

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 +0000

Devon Energy's $7bn (£4.6bn) in property sales to BP enabled the US independent oil and gas producer to exceed its hopes for $4.5bn-$7.5bn in proceeds from a...

Call for inquiry into nuclear plans

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 +0000

Simon Hughes, the Liberal Democrat spokesman for energy and climate change, yesterday called for an independent public inquiry into government plans to back a new...