Guest post by: Tom Rand We’ve hit the bottom of the global oil barrel. Thousands of rigs far out at sea stick giant straws through more than a mile of sea-water, and drill down for miles more to pierce our remaining pockets of oil. Those...
Category - Fossil fuel
- alternative energy
- Amazon
- Amazon trip
- Animals
- Biofuel
- Brazil
- Carbon emissions
- Deforestation
- environment
- ethanol
- Forests
- Fossil fuel
- Hydropower
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- wind energy
Dispatch from Brazil: the energy issue
Brazil takes a lot of pride in the fact that 48% of its energy matrix is renewable, mostly thanks to hydropower, the source of 80% of the electricity consumed in the country, and ethanol, which has been powering vehicles in the country since the...
The explosion on the Deepwater Horizon on April 20th left 17 workers injured, 11 missing and a tragically high number of wildlife species threatened with extinction. It is yet another grim reminder that the future belongs to renewable energy. Fossil...
Let’s start Monday with a trailer of a documentary about the plight of the people who live in the Canadian province of Alberta, where Big Oil is destroying the environment and depleting water supplies. It’s yet another reminder of why...
