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Warning: Oil supplies are running out fast

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The world is heading for a catastrophic energy crunch that could cripple a global economic recovery because most of the major oil fields in the world have passed their peak production, a leading energy economist has warned. Higher oil prices brought on by a rapid increase in demand and a stagnation, or even decline, in supply could blow any recovery off course, said Dr Fatih Birol, the chief economist at the respected International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris, which is charged with the task of assessing future energy supplies by OECD countries.

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Community Sustainability Metrics List

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This spreadsheet was developed and revised by the SDRSP Metrics Task Force over a two year period ending in 2009. The intent was to review many other community sustainability metrics, and come up with a generic list of metrics that appeared important to measure (in a developed country). The MTF had to follow a fine line between what we thought was important to be measured and what could actually be followed and reported on to the community. We settled on a much smaller list of measures than what we wanted to include, due to several disparate reasons.

Water Shortages Rising Across the Globe, But Especially India

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Grail Research has just released a study on water shortages across the world. Fresh water is becoming increasingly scarce, and in countries like India and China that are rapidly growing, the scarcity will hit hardest as the culture moves towards consumerism. The study's findings illustrate how current reserves must be managed more effectively if scarcity is to be mitigated, but at the current rate, an estimated 3 billion people will live below the water stress threshold by 2025.

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New NDRC and Google Map Tool to Guide Solar, Wind Placement

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Where should new solar and wind power facilities go? Seems many of the best potential sites, including rugged, windswept regions in the Rocky Mountains to the sun-baked Mojave Desert, contain swathes of land legally set aside as national parks, or support what remains of an endangered species' dwindling habitat, for example.

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