All posts in Environment & Energy

Oil & Power
August 25, 2008, Comments Off on Oil & Power

Excellent selection of readings suggested by one of our favorite sources Petrodollar bonanza offers economic key (FT) At ...

U.S. Presidential Campaign — the Vice President?
August 23, 2008, 1 Comment

David Brooks gets his wish. We had hopes for Bill Richardson, whose practical international negotiating experience would ...

Algeria
August 21, 2008, Comments Off on Algeria

21 August Algeria’s reconciliation policy is threatened by a spate of bombings (The Economist) Some 60 people have ...

Wednesday Night #1381
August 20, 2008, 9 Comments

We are delighted that Anne Lagacé Dowson, the NDP candidate in our by-election will be joining us this Wednesday. As al ...

U.S. Presidential Campaign: Candidates & Issues
August 17, 2008, 1 Comment

More on the 2008 campaign and issues Although the early days of the campaign were regrettably short on serious explorati ...

Wednesday Night #1380
August 13, 2008, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1380

Wednesday Night’s West Wing holds its fifth session August 13th. Alexandra and James have set up a beautiful new w ...

Denmark: Energy consumption and clean power
August 10, 2008, Comments Off on Denmark: Energy consumption and clean power

Danish Wind Industry Association  August 10 America needs to learn from Denmark, which responded to the 1973 Arab oil e ...

Climate Change & social justice
August 8, 2008, Comments Off on Climate Change & social justice

August 7 2008 Hypocrites Unite! At least we have some ideals to fall short of. George Monbiot The environment is inseper ...

Rainfall alert on global warming
August 8, 2008, Comments Off on Rainfall alert on global warming

August 8 Report: Rainfall extremely sensitive to temperature Heavy tropical rainfall increases proportionately to warmin ...

Commodities and co-dependency
August 1, 2008, Comments Off on Commodities and co-dependency

This thoughtful piece by Kenneth Rogoff was written in 2005. In light of the collapse of the Doha round, it bears readin ...