The new year brings no shortage of energy concerns, even though oil prices are much lower than last January. Instead of enumerating those that I think merit particular attention, for today I'd like to focus on an over-arching energy policy choice fac... [more]

by Richard T. Stuebias posted to Huffington PostSandwiched around the election of the first African-American President of the United States, we find the debacles associated with the collapse of the international finance sector and the imminent end of... [more]

Burj Dubai Tower, still under construction Via:TagPuanTreeHugger has posted many times on Dubai's sometimes green, sometimes wretchedly-excessive building boom (please pardon one last requiem use of the now much out-of-favor green ). The boom is... [more]

Burj Dubai Tower, still under construction Via:TagPuanTreeHugger has posted many times on Dubai's sometimes green, sometimes wretchedly-excessive building boom (please pardon one last requiem use of the now much out-of-favor green ). The boom is... [more]

Henrique Simoes submits:Is 2009 going to be an exciting year for oil? Institutional investors don t think so. Their estimates are very similar - much of Wall Street expects oil prices to average about $50 a barrel in 2009. Some of the firms and their... [more]

By Guest authorThis is a guest post by noted NASA climate scientist James Hansen. ----- 29 December 2008 Michelle and Barack Obama Chicago and Washington, D.C. United States of America Dear Michelle and Barack, We write to y... [more]

Would a dramatic reduction in demand for oil caused by a green vehicle revolution cause the same type of reduction in oil prices that the global financial crisis has?Overall, I don't see why not.In fact, I'm guessing that the eye-opening impact of th... [more]

It sounds iffy; running your company's network on a WiFi connection that is entirely powered by solar energy. But a Mountainview, CA firm says it provides a 100% uptime solution. And it reports a mad dash for its products by companies in the range of... [more]

Raju Agarwal submits:In 1997, some observers feared an impending global recession as a result of the headwinds stemming from the Asian financial crisis. However, within two years, those fears had dissipated and were replaced with new concerns of irr... [more]

Trace Mayer submits:Seasonally, oil (USO) is extremely weak from October through December. In 2008 oil started October at about $100 and ended December around $40 or around a monstrous 60% decline. Oil is strongest seasonally from July through Sept... [more]