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I’m not sure if Malhotra was referring to American Football or what the rest of the world calls football, but both stadiums are quite large. Wembley Stadium photo: Lawrie Cate.

The 2008 Transition Towns Conference - Image Credit: Mike Grenville

Peak Oil Response Continues to Grab Headlines

This just in from the Take Back the Filter campaign:

Brita is going to announce a recycling program for its water filter cartridges on Tuesday.

The brand manager from Brita contacted the Take Back The Filter campaign yesterday and gave us the word.

We can't reveal the details until Monday night. But I can say that their plan includes almost all of the things we asked for on our petition and during the campaign.

Image from Airplane-Pictures.net

Date Set for Jatropha-Powered Test Flight

New Guide to Oil Depletion for Local Authorities

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With the melting of the polar ice caps, countries around the world are finding that new shipping lanes are now opening up, and with that, areas that were previously off limits to exploration and drilling are now accessible. Scientific American reports that countries are now waging war on the high seas and drawing lines of "ownership" to get to these reserves. ...

The March/April issue of Mother Jones set a high water-mark for coverage of clean energy. The latest issue, which includes contributions from Al Gore, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz, Bill McKibben and Grist's David Roberts, does the same for climate change and the green economy; as they usually do, the editors of the magazine will slowly release its full contents online over the coming weeks, but that's no reason not to get the print version right now.

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photo: Chrystal Parsons

Though the World Energy Outlook report by the International Energy Agency isn’t due out until next week, the Financial Times obtained a pre-release copy of it, and if you had any hopes that the currently low oil prices we’ve seen after record highs earlier in the year were a sign of things to come, you should probably forget about it.

If you’re anything like me, you’re both thrilled and relieved that the 2008 presidential elections will actually be happening tomorrow, and on Wednesday we will finally (barring technical, judicial malfunctions...fingers crossed) be able to, as fellow TreeHugger Lloyd Alter puts it, get back to green instead of red and blue.

But we’re not quite there yet, and in the spirit of helping out the handful of TreeHugger readers who haven’t yet made up their minds and to stimulate post-election policy discussion, I’d just like to again point out and summarize some of the differences between Barack Obama and John McCain on energy and climate change policy:
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Anti-Chevron protest, photo: Rainforest Action Network.

With all the focus on the US presidential race, thankfully coming to a close tomorrow, here’s another one of those things you’d be forgiven for not noticing, but which has some potentially great legal implications for the environment and human rights.

What was that about zebras not changing their stripes? photo: José Eduardo Pachá

RUMOR WARNING: Though nothing can be confirmed about this rumor at this point, over at Solve Climate David Sassoon is passing on some overheard info that T. Boone Pickens may be looking to downsize his much touted largest wind farm in the world, owing to financial difficulties.

(Photo of IEA director Nobuo Tanaka visiting Russia)

Ready for peak oil, anybody? The Financial Times has gotten hold of a draft of the International Energy Agency's annual report, which states that the rate of output decline is 9.1 per cent at the world's biggest oil fields. This is the first ever authoritative public study of oil reserves - most countries such as Saudi Arabia prefer to keep the data as well-kept state secrets.