PRESS REVIEW N. 0

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SUSTENERGY  – PRESS REVIEW – N.0 – 23 June 2008 -
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Sustaining growth is the century’s big challenge
Financial Times
by By Martin Wolf

Is it possible for the vast mass of humanity to enjoy the living standards of today’s high-income countries? This is, arguably, the biggest question confronting humanity in the 21st century. It is today’s version of the doubts expressed by Thomas Malthus, two centuries ago, about the possibility of enduring rises in living standards.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fae2d7e2-370b-11dd-bc1c-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1

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Harnessing solar energy like plants do
MIT chemists see near-term promise in mimicking photosynthesis

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/chem-solar-0620.html

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Saudi ’s Oil Fields on Viagra?

Saudi Arabia has long been the world’s preeminent oil producer and the kingdom’s royal rulers want to keep it that way.

But there is another possible narrative to the kingdom’s likely future – and ours too – which is far less comforting.

Rather than a petroleum stud with enough hydrocarbon juice to carry the world gradually into some kind of greener, post-petroleum energy era, Saudi Arabia may be far closer to running dry than we realize, because of years of overexploitation.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/25281491

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Do High Petroleum Prices Mean We’ve Reached ‘Peak Oil’?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,369553,00.html

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TERRA PRETA

It seems like the idea to use soils as carbon sinks – by putting biochar obtained from the production of carbon-negative energy into them -, is rapidly becoming one of the winning technologies with which to combat climate change.

here is an article and a video made by made by ABC News in Australia, where the concept is making serious head way.

http://biopact.com/2008/06/geotimes-focuses-on-biochar-revolution.html

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Biggest firms call for huge cuts in emissions to start green industrial revolution

Heads of 100 of the world’s biggest companies will today call on political leaders to agree huge cuts in greenhouse gases to stimulate a “green industrial revolution”.

The statement organised by the World Economic Forum calls for “at least” a halving of global emissions of the greenhouse gases blamed for climate change, intensifying pressure on the heads of the world’s largest G8 economies, who meet in Japan next month.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/20/climatechange.carbonemissions

http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/ghg/index.htm

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Put oil firm chiefs on trial, says leading climate change scientist

The Guardian

James Hansen, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/23/fossilfuels.climatechange

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