sduford on Dec 17 2007 | Filed under: Biofuels, Books, Energy Efficiency, Politics, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Dev., Technology
Here’s a very interesting talk by Amory B. Lovins on weening ourselves off of oil while saving and creating jobs and fostering economic growth. He lists a bunch of simple ideas and shows their effect on oil consumption. This talk is based on his freely downloadable book which details all of his calculations so you [...]
sduford on Dec 07 2007 | Filed under: Environment, Global Warming, Politics
As a follow-on to my previous post on our little Canadian Dictator and his position on Global Warming, here’s a very nice little explanation of what is really going on, courtesy of DeSmogBlog.
If you owned a distillery, you would probably not be in favour of prohibition.
So it is little wonder why Harper is opposed to [...]
sduford on Dec 06 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, Politics
I am appalled by our Prime Minister’s behaviour on the environment. Clearly, he is driven purely by the money boom in his own Province of Alberta where the race to exploit the oil sands faster is causing billions of dollars to flow into the province. But oil sands processing is causing an environmental disaster of [...]