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Oil at $200 a Barrel Because of Tensions in Strait of Hormuz?

 The pieces and policies for potential conflict in the Persian Gulf are seemingly drawing inexorably together. Since 24 December the Iranian Navy has been holding its ten-day Velayat 90 naval exercises, covering an area in the Arabian Sea stretching from east of the Strait of Hormuz entrance to the Persian ... keep reading

Written by John C.K.Daly last month, about Coal & Oil, Events, Ocean, Trade, Transport, War

US Navy Runs Destroyer on Algae Biofuel

The U.S. Navy  pumped  20,000 gallons of algae-based fuel into a destroyer ship and launched its biggest biofuel test yet last week. It was a 20 hour trip along   the California coast.Next year the US Navy is planning to unveil a small carrier strike group of small ... keep reading

Written by Celsias in November 2011, about Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Design, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Politics & Government, War

Japan to Resume Whaling. McCully to Resume Rugby

Japan has confirmed that it will resume whaling in the Southern Ocean next month. And it is planning military security to go with it so that it can deal with opposition protest boats .Sea Shepherd has promised to launch “Operation Divine Wind”  against them. It is a reference to the ... keep reading

Written by Celsias in October 2011, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Conservation, Industry & Business, Law, Ocean, Politics & Government, Sustainability, War, Water

As Oil Declines, So Does America

America and Oil. It’s like bacon and eggs, Batman and Robin. As the old song lyric   went, you can’t have one without the other. Once upon a time, it was also a surefire formula for national greatness and global pre-eminence. Now, it’s a guarantee of a trip ... keep reading

Written by Michael Klare in September 2011, about Coal & Oil, Consumerism, Economics, Finance & Money, Health, Industry & Business, Politics & Government, War

The Link Between El Nino and Civil Wars

 The online journal Nature   recently published a study which makes the connection between climate cycles and civil war   – a correlation that even grade school children recognize as causing man’s worst inhumanity to man when one group or another is pressed by that other Nature – Mother Nature – to the brink ... keep reading

Written by Jeanne Roberts in September 2011, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Children and Families, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Food, Politics & Government, Population, Poverty, War (1 comment)

Energy: the new thirty years' war

We are heading for a global succeed-or-perish contest among the energy big hitters – but who will be the winners and losers? Michael Klare of the Guardian looks at global energy struggles and the likelihood of a war fueled by the impending energy crisis. Why 30 years? Well, that's how ... keep reading

Written by Kate R. in July 2011, about Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Children and Families, Coal & Oil, Emissions, Energy Saving, Environmental Disasters, Politics & Government, Sustainability, War

The technological conflict

I have an iPhone and I’ll admit freely to absolutely loving it. Likewise, I’ve used an iPad for work and have become enamoured with the technology. But while it seems easier to live in this technological bliss without thinking about the true impacts owning this technology might have ... keep reading

Written by Deirdre Robert in April 2011, about Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Technology, War

US military turns to renewable energy

When you’re talking about military combat, what words come to mind?  Renewable energy probably isn’t one of them but as Elisabeth Rosenthal explains in this New York Times article, senior commanders have come to see overdependence on fossil fuel as a big liability, and they think renewable technologies ... keep reading

Written by Elisabeth Rosenthal in October 2010, about Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Green energy, Innovation, Politics & Government, Renewals, War

Keeping the blood out of your laptop

Blood Diamond wasn't just a bloody good movie. And the same sad story is being played out again, without Leonardo Di Caprio and friends, this time over the minerals which help power up our wired up lifestyle.    BusinessGreen.com has been talking to major buyers in the electronics world ... keep reading

Written by Celsias team in May 2010, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Children and Families, Computing, Consumerism, Economics, Industry & Business, Poverty & Development, War

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