Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Not only is independence worth striving for because it is good for us, our nation and our families, but also because someday we may depend on these skills and knowledge – and right now we might have a better country if we did this.
Gore sees ‘spiritual crisis’ in warming
GAO: severe weather’s effect on insurers
Arctic land melts creates new land rush
Socialist Alliance on climate change
FT: The rush to go green could end in the red
Curbing warming won’t bankrupt economy
The struggle over Iraqi oil
Chavez-style oil nationalism is endangering world economic growth
The (not so) eagerly modern Saudi
Jet stream could fill global energy needs, say researchers
How a market for sustainable bio-energy is being developed
Farmer: Renewable is not a synonym for sustainable
No-walking blues (in suburban sprawl)
Cycling good in Cascadia, Europe’s better
Spain balks at corrupt urbanization
Moving New York City toward sustainable energy independence
Rob Hopkins (Transition Totnes) interview
Bill Rees (“eco-footprint”) on pushing the planet to its limit
Investigative journalist reports PO by 2020
Bush may have answers to peak oil
Peak oil in Turkey
User’s guide to T. Boone Pickens
American society, as an autopoietic system, by its very energy-intense design, is inclined toward blindness of certain stimuli in its environment… It is well known that any large-scale organization as a system adjusts slowly to alterations in its environment. This suggests that there may be more promise in correcting our vision at the micro level.
How creation of an Energy Shortage Plan will prepare New York City for energy price volatility and accelerate the long-term transition to energy sustainability. (50-page report)
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective.
Questioning the compost supply chain
100-mile diet: ‘Food mile’ foibles.
As the climate warms, gentler plants move in
Please Lord, not the bees
Astyk: No more scrod
Could the mysterious agricultural techniques of an ancient Amazonian civilization make New Zealand farming more competitive?
Mediterranean nations face up to climate change
City wakes up to economic threat of warming
Monbiot: Rich world’s policy on greenhouse gas now seems clear
Artefacts in ocean data hide rising temperatures
Recent climate observations compared to projections (Projections may have understated change)
