Language, Arts and Science
Energy Resources & Lifestyle
Course Documents: 
“Laborem Exercens” links and articles
Laborem
Exercens – common text
Laborem Exercens
in everyday language
Jean Elshtain “Work
as Key to the Social Question”
Office for Social Justice – MN
Principles of Catholic Social Teaching
Catholic-Pages.com
Summary
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
International Labor Organization
U.S. Department of Labor
Wikipedia - Marxism
Sinsinawa Dominicans
Harlan County – Coal Links
Chicago Tribune, 06/05/08 How
coal got a dirty name: Will County plan latest victim of critics of
pollution, rising construction costs
New York Times February 15, 2009 Is
America Ready to Quit Coal?
New York Times December 30, 2008 At
Plant in Coal Ash Spill, Toxic Deposits by the Ton
New York Times May 30, 2008 Mounting
Costs Slow the Push for Clean Coal
New York Times April 23, 2008 Europe
Turns Back to Coal, Raising Climate Fears
New York Times June 11, 2006 Pollution
From Chinese Coal Casts a Global Shadow
New York Times January 7, 2009 Hundreds
of Coal Ash Dumps Lack Regulation
Ethanol Issue Articles:
New
York Times May 27 2009 - Big Oil Warms to Ethanol
Ethanol,
Just Recently a Savior, Is Struggling
Business
Week: Food vs. Fuel
New York Times: Fuel
Choices, Food Crises and Finger-Pointing
BBC: Corn's key role
as food and fuel
Balanced Food and Fuel website:
Egg Prices Rise Reflects Soaring Costs
National
Public Radio: Ethanol Demand, Prices
Boost Farm Communities
The Moral Equivalent of War: Corn: Fuel or Food?
Science
News: Ethanol Fuel From Corn
Faulted As "Unsustainable Subsidized Food Burning"
Chemical
& Engineering News: Biofuel Bonanza
Chemical &
Engineering News: Renewable Fuels Face Bumpy Road
Chemical &
Engineering News: The Cost of Biofuels
POET: Food and Fuel
NYT Food
Report Criticizes Biofuel Policies
Biofuels:
Science of Fiction?
NYT: Springtime
for Ethanol
Chemical & Engineering News: Ethanol Wins Big in
Energy Policy
NYT: With
Big Boost from Sugar Cane, Brazil is Satisfying its Fuel Needs
NYT: Biofuels
Deemed a Greenhouse Threat
Time: The
Clean Energy Scam
Barack Obama’s
Plan to Make America a Global Energy Leader
Chicago Tribune Food
vs. fuel a global myth
“Oil on the Brain” Links:
Publisher’s & Author’s Webpage
National
Public Radio interview with Lisa Margonelli
National
Public Radio’s Nigeria & Oil features
Chapter 1: Gas Station
BP
– and now a message from your friendly transnational oil company.
Citgo
Shell
May 19, 2009 - Oil hits
6-month high after U.S. refinery explosion, Nigerian unrest
June 8, 2009 - Will
gas hit $3 this year?
How Stuff Works: How Car
Engines Work:
Chapter 2: Distribution
New York Times June 2, 2006
Wikipedia:
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Exxon
Valdez Oil Spill: 10 years later
Thinkquest:
Oil Spills
Energy Information
Administration (EIA)
Chapter 3: Refinery
The Oil Drum:
Discussions about our Energy and our Future
How Oil
Refining Works:
Gasoline:
Most people don't give car fuel much thought, but it is quite a complex mixture
of hydrocarbons
Products
Made From Petroleum
United Oil and Petroleum (UOP)
EPA: Automobile Emissions
Chapter 4: Rig
YouTube:
The Story of Petroleum
YouTube:
Drilling for Oil in Illinois
Chapter 5: Strategic Petroleum
Reserve
1973
Arab Oil Embargo:
Chapter 6: NYMEX Oil Market
New York Mercantile Exchange
Chapter 7:
Venezuela
Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries
CIA
Factbook - Venezuela
Energy Information Administration, Country Analysis Briefs
Film - Venezuela: Revolution from the Inside Out
ZNet:
To Sow the Oil, or Give it Away?
The
Economics, Culture, and Politics of Oil in Venezuela
A
Decade in Power: An Assessment of Hugo Chávez’s Bolivarian Revolution
Venezuela's
`Revolution' Depends On Oil Revenue
Chapter 8: Chad
CIA
Factbook - Chad
World
Bank Country Brief - Chad
Energy
Information Administration, Country Analysis Briefs – Cameroon and Chad
Norland:
Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project
National Geographic – African Oil: Whose Bonanza?
Norland:
Innovations of the Chad/Cameroon Pipeline Project -Thinking outside the Box
The
Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline—Hope for Poverty Reduction?
Exxon's
African adventure
Funding
big oil in the name of the poor
World
Bank moves forward on African project
Chad:
out of Africa
Chad-Cameroon
pipeline: A model for African resource development?
The
Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project
Chad
Backs Out of Pledge to Use Oil Wealth to Reduce Poverty
New York Times 08/13/2007 China,
Filling a Void, Drill for Riches in Chad
New York Times Slideshow: Drilling
for Oil: No Strings Attaches
Dr.
Friesen’s Powerpoint in pdf
Chapter 9: Iran
Operation
Praying Mantis on Youtube I
“No
Higher Honor” book webpage
New
York Times: October 3, 2008 - 3 Oil-Rich Countries Face a Reckoning
Energy Information Administration, Country Analysis Briefs -Iran
Chapter 10: Nigeria
Energy Information Administration, Country Analysis Briefs -Nigeria
New
York Times, May 22 - Oil Industry Braces for Trial on Rights Abuses
Bloomberg
– May 22 - Oil
Rises as Dollar Drop Spurs Investor Demand for Commodities
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
MEND: The Niger Delta’s Umbrella
Militant Group March 22, 2007
BBC - Nigeria's shadowy oil
rebels April 20, 2006
BBC - The day oil was discovered
in Nigeria March 17, 2009
BBC – Blood Oil
dripping from Nigeria July 28, 2008
Mujahid
Dokubo-Asari home page
AllAfrica.com Nigeria: War in the Creeks - Military
Attack Premeditated - Dokubo Asari May 24, 2009
OnlineNigeria
- Youth activist blames Niger Delta crisis on Ijaw leaders May 29, 2009
“The Drilling Fields” Oil in the
Niger Delta Links:
“Blood
Oil” Vanity Fair article (February 2007)
all
Africa.com article (May 2007)
Growing
Unrest Posing a Threat to Nigerian Oil (April 2007)
Gangs
Terrorize Nigeria’s Vital Oil Region (November 2007)
BBC Nigeria’s
oil hope and despair (February 2006)
The Case Against Shell
(In Nigeria) video
The Case Against Shell Homepage
Chapter 11: China
Energy
Information Administration, Country Analysis Briefs - China
PetroChina Oil Company
China
Daily article about the “Aspire” car - Peering
through the smog: Can cars be clean?
New
York Times April 2, 2009: China Vies to Be World’s Leader in Electric Cars
New
York Times May 11, 2009 China Outpaces U.S. in Cleaner Coal-Fired Plants
New
York Time April 11, 2009 Graft in China Covers Up Toll of Coal Mines
Other Stuff
Hydrogen from Green Algea (Chlamydomonas
reinhardtii):
Battle
Over Offshore Drilling in Alaska
Hubbert’s Peak
Die off:
The Olduvia Theory:
”Running
out of resources” by Bjorn Lomborg (pdf)
The
Energy Spiral by Peter Huber
Dig More Coal: The Hybrids are
Coming by Peter Huber
Current News Articles:
New York Times –
Energy Challenge Series
Other Stuff:
Albertus Magnus - Patron Saint of the Chemistry Center