UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security

The Taskforce sees very major consequences of rising oil prices in the next few years. Without a strong and coordinated response from Government to protect the UK economy and society from rising prices, we will see the cost of travel, food, heating and retail goods rise which will impact British businesses and citizens alike. We also need to see much quicker action from Government to support the introduction of renewable energy technology and energy efficiency measures.  http://peakoiltaskforce.net/about-2/

Fishing

Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years. Charles Haas

Government reponse re household energy bills

Mandate in law that household energy bills are made simpler, clearer and easier for consumers to understand. http://www.hmg.gov.uk/epetition-responses/petition-view.aspx?epref=betterbills

Take The Open University Green Quiz

http://www.open2.net/sciencetechnologynature/worldaroundus/greenquiz.html

Climate change: evidence from the geological record

The Geological Society has prepared a position statement on climate change, focusing specifically on the geological evidence:
http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/views/policy_statements/climatechange

New solar farm for Cornwall

The UK is to get its first purpose-built solar farm in Truro, Cornwall. http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?src=nl&id=18857

U.S. Approves World's Biggest Solar Power Project

The U.S. Interior Department on Monday approved a permit for the world's biggest solar power project that will provide electricity to up to 750,000 homes.
The 1,000-megawatt project was proposed by a subsidiary of Solar Millennium AG and will be located on federal lands near Blythe, California.

"The Blythe Solar Power Project is a major milestone in our nation's renewable energy economy and shows that the United States intends to compete and lead in the technologies of the future," said U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.

The project fits with the Obama administration's efforts to have more U.S. electricity supplies generated by renewable energy sources like wind and solar power and create thousands of clean energy jobs in the process.