Fossil Fuels

• Rise in Oil Tax Forces Greeks to Face Cold as Ancients Did

• Vast Oil Reserve May Now Be Within Reach, and Battle Heats Up

Water

• http://aqueduct.wri.org/atlas• Tar Sands Oil Production, An Industrial

Bonanza, Poses Major Water Use Challenges– In 2008, according to Energy Alberta, tar sands

mines actually used 184.3 million cubic meters of water — 48.7 billion gallons. That’s roughly the same amount of water that the entire American oil industry consumes in a month.

Land

• Farmland: The next speculative financial bubble?

Minerals

• Greece Sees Gold Boom, but at a Price• Mining the Deep Sea and Outer Space for a

Mineral Bonanza• Use of ‘Conflict Minerals’ Gets More Scrutiny

From U.S.• China, a Rare Earths Giant, Set to Start

Importing the Elements