Energy Security

The Security Implications of Climate Change

Justin Mundy | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green


Justin Mundy

Climate security, energy security, food security and water security are now all inextricably linked. There is no long term and stable security outcome that is viable unless all four challenges are met.

Why The Military Is Worried About Climate Change

Jonathan Powers | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green


Jonathan Powers

Military leaders are now identifying climate change and energy security as a growing threat. The Pentagon is now taking it so seriously that it has been war-gaming scenarios.

The Next Generation's Great Adventure

Jonathan Powers | Posted 08.20.2009 | Green


Jonathan Powers

Our generation's great adventure is to find our way out of this energy and climate mess we find ourselves in.

Hans Jørgen Koch Explains Why IRENA Is "50 times More Than the IEA"

Lily Riahi | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green


Lily Riahi

Lily Riahi speaks with Hans Jørgen Koch about why we need the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) especially given the existence of the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Time for the Gigaton Throwdown!

Larry Coben | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green


Larry Coben

Tomorrow in Washington, the Gigaton Throwdown releases its long awaited report on how to remove a gigaton of CO2 from our atmosphere while building an...

Retired Generals, Admirals Consider Oil Dependence A Security Risk

AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 06.19.2009 | Green


WASHINGTON — An advisory group of retired generals and admirals said in a report issued Monday that reducing America's reliance on oil and addre...

Celebrating Ag and Energy Day Year Round

Bob Dinneen | Posted 04.24.2009 | Business


Bob Dinneen

Celebrating the productivity and the potential of American agriculture is something that we need to do more often. Too few people recognize that food doesn't miraculously appear on grocery store shelves.

US Intel Chief Says Climate Change Is A Top Security Threat

Treehugger | Posted 03.22.2009 | Green


As Obama gets ready to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan, the new head of US intelligence warns that another severe threat to national securit...

Clinton's Trip To China Signals Importance Of Climate In Obama Era

New York Times | Andrew C. Revkin | Posted 03.08.2009 | Green


Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has settled on China as an important stop on her first trip abroad in her new job and aides told me that cli...

Energy Secretary Pick Has Vocally Supported Alternative Fuels

AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 01.15.2009 | Green


WASHINGTON — Steven Chu, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who is President-elect Barack Obama's choice for energy secretary, has been a vocal a...

Energy Imperialism? Is The Georgian Conflict All About Oil?

Wall Street Journal | Keith Johnson | Posted 09.18.2008 | Green


Could the Kremlin's latest bid for energy dominance boomerang and finally wake up the West? The prevailing wisdom says Russia's military incursion i...

"Oil vs. Nuclear" Finite Resources: Rising Prices - Lessons from the Past...

Gavin D. J. Harper | Posted 09.18.2008 | Green


Gavin D. J. Harper

On the banks of the River Thames, just on the edge of Greater London is a lesson the energy industry could well do to heed.

Mixing Water Into The Energy Debate

Rob Runyan | Posted 08.01.2008 | Home


Rob Runyan

Dealing with one sector without thinking about the other is one-hand clapping. That's why we have popular alternative fuels like ethanol that don't factor in the drain on water resources.

Facts and Lies about Lowering Oil Prices

Alan Rosenblatt | Posted 07.30.2008 | Green


Alan Rosenblatt

Big Oil makes more money when prices go up and that money is nicely spread among its allies in Congress. Trusting these guys is like trusting your neighborhood pusher.