Mexico's oil looks set to run out within a decade, writes Jeremy Leggett, and it can hardly rely on Trump's America to make up the difference. But Mexico enjoys abundant sunshine, and the cost of solar power generation is falling fast. Let Trump tie America's economy to debt-financed fossil fuels. Mexico's future prosperity will come from harnessing its inexhaustible solar riches.
… Mexico's expiring oil and Trump's wall: the future is solar Jeremy Leggett | … An example: Mexico could build its own wall, made of solar panels. Such a wall, 6 metres high along the full length of …
A new financial crisis is threatening to dwarf the 'subprime' mortgage debacle, writes Paul Mobbs. Cheap money from central banks has fuelled some $1.3 trillion of risky investments in high-cost 'unconventional' oil and gas. Now, with oil sinking below $60, all that paper is turning to junk - and that's putting the entire economic system at risk.
… being taken seriously by the money-lenders of Wall Street. John Maynard Keynes was one of … fossil fuels During the early 2000s a lot of Wall Street's 'funny money', based around …
Football fans around the globe have their eyes set on Curitiba, Brasil this year, the site of the 2014 World Cup. But as Brian Barth reports, eco-savvy urban planners have been studying Brasil's seventh largest city for decades ...
… setting of an abandoned quarry, its glass walls shimmering with magic in the water's … Iguacu would be channelized between concrete walls in an attempt to control flooding and …
Mission accomplished in Iraq? It is now, writes Mike Whitney. A million deaths on, a once peaceful, independent country has been transformed into a petro-economy of never ending civil chaos and terror, where multinational oil corporations rule supreme.
… rolling in dough. Here's the story from the Wall Street Journal : "Iraq's oil production … in America. People talk about the power of Wall Street and Israel, but oil is still king. …
Isolated by the surrounding desert, Kashgar was once
an oasis on the old Silk Road. Now the city is being overwhelmed in the rush to open up the region’s oil and gas reserves. By Dan Box.
… bleached white sand against the station walls. Sitting opposite, an Uyghur girl … now live in the shells of houses with walls torn open by the road. Where the narrow …
Increased production from US fracking operations is a major reason for the drop in oil prices, writes Kieran Cooke. But there are warnings that the industry now faces an existential crisis from which it may never recover, as the financial sector faces the prospect of worthless shares and $100s of billions of defaulted debt.
… raised mainly through bonds issued on Wall Street and in the City of London. In … raised mainly through bonds issued on Wall Street and in the City of London. …
A growing number of homeowners are taking the green initiative. Laura Sevier reports
… housing stock. Many older houses have solid walls‚ poor insulation‚ draughty windows and … kitchen units‚ wool carpets‚ water based wall paints and a water-saving shower and …
ExxonMobil has long known that climate change is real and dangerous, write Louise Rouse & Naomi Ages, while denying it in public and supporting climate change deniers. Now they accuse their critics of 'chilling' climate science and the search for solutions. The truth is the precise opposite.
… that has put Exxon's back firmly to the wall. Following fast on the news that the US …
Increasing demand for meat in the land of the Pyramids is leading to more intensive farming, with serious consequences for food prices, the environment and animal welfare, reports Joseph Mayton in Cairo
… as 'organic', but their tactics, with closed walls and no sunlight, are part of the game of …
UK politicians and officials are studiously ignoring the growing evidence that fracking is an economic and environmental disaster, writes Paul Mobbs. As the circle of 'acceptable' view spins ever smaller, industry PR is dominating a phoney debate that's increasingly remote from reality, public opinion and core democratic principles.
… boom' in the USA was fuelled by speculative Wall Street finance. When that bubble burst in …
A deal to give up 500,000 acres of public lands in Utah to the tar sands industry in return for 1.5 million acres of industry is a sacrifice too far, writes Alexander Reid Ross, as it disclaims the wider costs of massive water use and contamination in the headwaters of the Colorado River, already seriously stressed by drought.
… shy about discussing the impacts of what the Wall Street Journal is calling 'the Grand …
It’s 2008, and feeding ourselves has never been easier. We take for granted a supply of every agricultural commodity on the planet, 365 days a year. Food is cheap. Never in living memory have we spent less on it as a proportion of our total expenditure. Even our poorest citizens can afford the luxury foods of yesteryear, like salmon and chicken.
… for a new food century. The writing is on the wall. Already there are food shortages, …
The idea has yet to catch on in the UK but in Scandinavia, where the very first 'nature house' was built in the 1970s, the idea of surrounding your existing home with what is essentially a 'greenhouse' to create a living home is one that is catching on. PAUL MILES explores the eco benefits
… a glass shell, Solvarm suggests that not all walls need be enclosed by glass. "If, say, you … that open directly to the outside, then those walls can be outside the glass climate shell," …
The high oil prices that turned North Dakota into a boom state have turned, writes Joshua Frank. Now high-cost oil and gas are in the doldrums everywhere, production is falling - and even if prices do pick up one day, risk aversion and the relentless advance of renewables will leave lakes of oil and caverns of gas underground where they belong. Folks, the oil party really is over!
… flowing in. It was all by design of course - Wall Street's design, writes Rogers: "Wall Street promoted the shale gas drilling …
O2’s new green business strategy lays out some laudable ideas. But under the surface it seems that the mobile and internet company is doing little other than looking after its own profits
… got. I think they can see the writing on the wall when it comes to sustainability, and …
Building a more sustainable future is vital if our societies are to survive in a post-fossil-fuel future – but, argues Susan Roaf, the way we build must itself first change
… unethical. Passive buildings – using windows, walls and floors to collect, store and …
An ecostay in South India is developing an ambitious plan to expand into the education sector, nearly three years after its launch ROBYN WILSON reports
… that we'd use glass bottles to honeycomb the walls to make them much stronger and reinforce …
The UK has just opened a bidding round for fracking licences. But the rules contain only weak protections against fracking in National Parks and AONBs - and none at all for even the most important wildlife sites and drinking water aquifers.
… Devon coast, Blenheim palace and Hadrian's Wall), even where "a proposed development for …
California has responded to the drought by rationing water, with $500 fines for domestic 'water wasters', writes Evan Blake. But agribusiness and water-intensive industries like fracking remain untouched by the restrictions, even though they consume over 90% of the state's water.
… largest growers of citrus and pistachios. Wall Street's slice of the agribusiness pie …
Officials can sternly lecture the City on its excesses as much as they like: when it comes to actually regulating it, politicians just don't care. And don't want us to know...
… suit. He loved business. Once, taking a glass-walled lift together in Commerzbank he pointed …