Just a few weeks after Philips landed in the red in the Guide to Greener Electronics, they headed to Moscow’s Red Square and threw themselves a party to celebrate 110 years on the market. Greenpeace activists showed up at the party to remind Philips that after all these years, doing the right thing is still […]

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Activists from our ship the Arctic Sunrise have been putting coal in the hot seat from both land and sea in Italy. Five of them scaled a 150 meter crane at the new coal-fired power plant Civitavecchia, near Rome to drop a banner highlighting the fact that the Italian government opposes the Kyoto Protocol. Meanwhile […]

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The Recurring Myth of Peak Oil is a longish article by ISMAEL HOSSEIN-ZADEH which goes at length to claim “Peak Oil” is a hoax. He has some interesting arguments, which I don’t buy, and want to analyse a bit. He is a Professor of Economics at Drake Univ., has written books, and from […]

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CNN notes that Buckley leaves National Review after Obama endorsement, that’s Christopher Buckley, the son of conservative icon William F. Buckley. He had been writing for the National Review, a paper founded by his father, and had recently endorsed Barack Obama for President. The CNN article also notes other prominent Conservatives who have […]

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While processing the update on the Dagne motorcycle a thought resurfaced. One thing that’s necessary for the EV Industry to take off is that there be trained low level EV technicians just as today there are a wide range of technicians for servicing oil burning vehicles. While electric vehicles tend to be very […]

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In Copenhagen a considerable fraction of the city’s energy comes from renewable sources and many of their citizens ride bicycles. Apparently they want to know more about the ebb and flow of the bicyclists on the Copenhagen streets. But this strikes be as a pseudo-big-brother program in addition to be an interesting type […]

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Yet another three wheeled electric vehicle. In the U.S. they register as motorcycles and it’s a lot easier to get to market when it’s a motorcycle. This one is a reverse trike design that has tilting featuritis. It seats two people sitting in tandem. Tandem seating does narrow the vehicle which […]

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Republished from http://www.ecoshock.org/2008/08/peak-oil-and-media.html — a panel discussion about Peak Oil and its coverage in the Media. What we can do. Vancouverpeakoil.org presents a panel of 5 journalists: Rex Weyler, Barbara Jaffe, Charlie Smith, Sara Robinson and Alex Smith. How to organize, use media, bypass the mainstream.

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WeCanSolveIt.org has sent out an alert regarding the following advertisement they want to run on television. They talk about the ads running during and after the election debates like so: ABC had Chevron. CBS had Exxon. CNN had the coal lobby. But you know what happened last week?

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October 2, 2008, U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Brad Sherman [D-CA] asks:
“But why are we bailing out the Bank of China? Why are we bailing out the Saudi royal family?…
The only way they can pass this bill is by creating and by sustaining a panic atmosphere…
A few Members were even told that there would be […]

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