Quoted: A Quick Look Inside the Very Full Brain of Amory Lovins Dan Shapley / News Editor Peak Oil is a distraction and global warming? Well, global warming will take care of itself. It's the bottom line, stupid. Amory Lovins makes these arguments, (without actually calling you stupid, and with a breathtaking whirlwind of statistics that he has -- miraculously -- cached in his brain) in the course of explaining why the energy source of the future is clean and limitless. Because it's no energy at all. Lovins, the winner of the 2007 Leadership Breakthrough Award from Popular Mechanics ...

This is cool.

Interesting study in payouts. It's not all that it seems.

Quoted: A Louisiana oysterman can make as much, if not more, collecting damage settlements from oil companies as from harvesting the bivalves, according to a study.

The actual answer is probably in the middle somwhere. It will also change over time as conversion rates go up.

Good read.

quoted:Politicians and environmentalists these days convey the impression that climate-change research is an exceptionally dull field with little left to discover. We are assured by everyone from David Suzuki to Al Gore to Prime Minister Stephen Harper that "the science is settled." At the recent G8 summit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel even attempted to convince world leaders to play God by restricting carbon-dioxide emissions to a level that would magically limit the rise in world temperatures to 2C.

I had heard in the past that wind farms cause many bird deaths. However if the box to the right of this column is correct. The relative deaths caused by wind turbines is nothing compared to at least five other causes. Bring on the wind farms!

Quoted: The wind-energy industry is objecting to federal legislation that seeks to protect birds and bats from wind turbines, arguing the measure would place unnecessary burdens on clean-energy projects.

Fascinating. I wonder how much CO2 is released naturally by this lake versus cars in the world?