Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has made a proposal that has been attracting attention world wide: instead of exploiting the oil reserves under Yasuní National Park, a UNESCO biosphere reserve, he has asked for donations of $350 million in exchange for a promise not to extract any oil from the area.

“Vive Yasuní” - Campaigners protesting against [...]

Crude oil exploitation in Ecuador has long been one of my favourite rant subjects, ever since I’ve seen it in person. But it seems that other people are on it, too: Sting’s wife, Trudy Styler, co-founder of the Rainforest Foundation, has just been there and has reported back on the experience.

A child plays next to [...]

I just rediscovered the Peak Oil theory and thought it was so nifty I just had to write about it. It is based on a theory by M. King Hubbert, an American geophysicist working for - attention - Shell in Houston, Texas. So you really can’t accuse the man of being unfavourably biased against oil [...]