Peak Oil

The Free and Clean Hydrogen Age (Part 3)

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green


Patrick Takahashi

The government doesn't need to suffocate the economy in order to produce sufficient revenues to support a free and clean hydrogen economy.

What About Free Hydrogen? (Part 2)

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 07.11.2008 | Green


Patrick Takahashi

Peak oil is changing the topography of energy economics, and petroleum suppliers must start today to make monumental corporate decisions on what they will become tomorrow.

What About Free Hydrogen? (Part 1)

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 07.10.2008 | Green


Patrick Takahashi

We'll come to the how later, but an ideal alternative worthy of discussion would be one powered by clean and sustainable hydrogen.

The End of Oil

Michael T. Klare | Posted 07.08.2008 | Green


Michael T. Klare

The idea that the oil crisis can be resolved through restoring an environment of cheap and abundant oil is fundamentally flawed -- evidence suggests it is the beginning of the end of the petroleum age.

Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 07.04.2008 | Media


Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle

Government report links extreme weather to global warming, traffic pollution to childhood allergies, Denver Police stockpiling pepper weapons and Rumsfeld got torture advice from Army psychologists.

Simple Solutions to Energy and Global Warming

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 07.02.2008 | Green


Patrick Takahashi

Actual decisions affecting environmental policy will be made only if the world is by then in the midst of depression and oil rests at $250/barrel. But, then, isn't that a bit too late?

Why Do Republicans Like Fossil Fuels and Not Care That Much for the Environment?

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 06.28.2008 | Green


Patrick Takahashi

McCain and Obama are at polar opposites on the matter of energy; the issue of fossil / nuclear energy versus green energy could well be the uniquely different determining factor in November.

Oil Prices 101: What Goes Into Today's High Prices?

CNN | Posted 06.23.2008 | Green


Oil, Supply, Demand, Speculation, Failing Dollar, oil prices, crude oil prices, oil, oil companies, big oil, oil industry, peak oil...

Is The Media's Manipulation of Market News to Blame For The Current Market Meltdown?

Max Keiser | Posted 06.17.2008 | Business


Max Keiser

Markets need transparency if benefits of the "invisible hand" are to be distributed to the widest section of the population. This interferes with the agenda of America's copyright, news monopolists and bankers who support them.

Who's To Blame For Today's Oil Prices?

TreeHugger.com | John Laumer | Posted 06.14.2008 | Green


One of the popular vote-pandering narratives pursued by US Congress Critters, lately, has been 'oil companies making too much money,' bankrupting the...

Peak Everything: 8 Things We Are Running Out Of And Why

Treehugger.com | Lloyd Alter | Posted 06.09.2008 | Green


Getty Images Why is everything running out at the same time? We did a series on Planet Green where we looked at why those basic things that we ta...

Behind Skyrocketing Oil Prices

Robert Weissman | Posted 06.07.2008 | Business


Robert Weissman

Market manipulation may be contributing to the recent oil price spike -- though even in the worst case, it is only part of the story.