Stricter study of Baca refuge drilling urged - The Denver Post
Cool: U.S. agencies actually call for TOUGHER environmental review of plans to drill in a national wildlife refuge. Especially cool: BioGems activists helped make it happen!
NetNow Linkblog: What we're reading today at NRDC
Recent Links Tagged "energy"
Climate Progress
Tireless blogger Joe Romm -- a high-level Clinton administration energy official now with the Center for American Progress -- is a go-to source of heavyweight analysis of news and issues relating to climate science, politics, and solutions.
New York Times: Any Other Bright Ideas?
A panel of Times staffers compares a host of energy efficient lighting products against a traditional incandescent bulb. Bottom line: plenty of CFL bulbs emit light with "all the warmth and charm of a gas station," but there are some warm and homey except
Map of the world with countries scaled by their oil reserves
A picture/map can say a thousand words.
Social Innovation Conversations: Amory Lovins
Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute talks about how energy-efficiency tech could eliminate half of our oil needs, half of our gas needs and three-fourths of our electricity requirements, while maintaining a stable, growing economy.
Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Debunking Shellenberger & Nordhaus — Part II, Breaking the technology breakthrough myth
Interesting post on the potential role for technological breakthroughs in the energy sector and why policy and deploying what we have now is more important.
Energy Efficiency in the Data Center - Intel Chip Chat - Episode 10
US data centers -- facilities that house computer hardware -- consumed 61 billion kW hours of electricity in 2006. And that's not all Google's fault -- every organization has a data center today. Here's a story about making them more energy efficient.
Going Green to Save Some Green - WSJ.com
Lenders taking a little off closing costs for energy efficient home and loans to install energy efficiency measures. A good, if tentitive, step.
BLDGBLOG: Hot-Mapping the UK, or: Spy Planes Over Haringey
Putting aside the privacy issues, which are important but strike me as overblown, using this technology to identify inefficient homes looks pretty cool.
The Energy Blog: Artifical Muscle Produces Ocean Power
I love ocean power but am a little freaked out by the notion of artifical muscles. Nevertheless, I hope this sort of thing works.
The Oil Drum | DrumBeat: August 5, 2007
Just a general shout-out to the DrumBeat. It's a consistently useful summary of energy and especially related news.
R-Squared Energy Blog: Solar Redux
R-Squared is a great blog and this is part of a particularly interesting string of posts about different forms of transportation energy.
The Cost of Energy » Blog Archive » New toy: Energy clock v1.0
This is addictive! Description from the blog: it’s a Windows application that displays the US and world consumption of coal, oil, and natural gas, and emission of CO2, in real time, for the current day as well as the current year.
Carbon Neutral web sites/apps
The host of the "web2.0 show," a popular podcast about emerging web technologies, wonders if the Internet industry can go "carbon neutral." (In general, I've found technologists to be very receptive to greening their business practices. )
