Experts call on environmentalists to embrace nuclear power as a clean energy source and a way to avoid dangerous climate change.
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When it comes to our energy future we find ourselves pulled in two directions. There is one group of experts who explain the only fair thing to do is to provide energy for everyone. Another group argue that the only possible scenario is to pursue a world where everyone has less energy.
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What are the connections between the 2009 Eurozone Crisis and the high oil prices experienced during the Global Financial Crisis?
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In post-Fukushima Japan, what is the best direction for the national energy policy? Should the nuclear power stations be restarted or should Japan pursue an alternative path that includes greater emphasis on renewables?
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Four scenarios are presented to help policy-makers figure out how best to respond to the potential impact of peak oil.
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Policy-makers remain silent, inactive or deliberately ignore the implications of peak oil, while the evidence mounts.
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Energy for all is a critically important goal, but it will be very challenging to achieve in a world facing climate change and depletion of easily accessible fossil fuel resources.
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Somehow comedians can make us laugh about even the most serious of subjects like whether or not we are witnessing the end of the era of cheap oil.
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Interview with Tetsunari Iida, one of the top thought leaders on renewable energy in Japan and head of the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies.
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Following the Fukushima nuclear accident and the subsequent planned power outages affecting large parts of eastern Japan, there are some voices calling for a review of national energy policy and for a shift in focus to renewable energy.
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It is possible that Japan’s post-tsunami response might help us to respond to peak oil.
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Conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa have the potential to interrupt global oil supplies causing an Oil Shockwave.
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What is the best way to increase energy security in a country that has limited fossil fuel resources? Is nuclear power the answer? That is certainly the opinion of some sectors in Japan.
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Renewable energy is breaking into the mainstream and hopefully driving forward the shift away from a world powered by fossil fuels.
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The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico taught us many hard lessons. Perhaps the most important is the fact that the world's remaining oil reserves are in difficult to get at locations.
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Totnes is one of the few towns that has taken the time to develop an energy descent plan. The aim is to reduce energy consumption over time and there to enhance the energy security of the town, while also shifting over to renewable energy.
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What are the options open to society in the advent that we see a decline in the availability of cheap oil? David Holmgren has developed four scenarios that could represent our collective energy future.
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Japan is completely dependent on the import of fossil fuels to power its economy. As a result, the Japanese Government is very much aware of the importance of energy security, but does not have a strategy in place to respond to a potential peak in global oil production.
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