Climate – Feb 20
Roses, rings, and manure: the carbon neutral wedding
Snow future for alpine tourism?
Australia refused talks on sea levels, island nation says
Guilt-gree pollution. Or is it?
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 19
Designing outrageously successful projects
Towards a worldbuilding pattern language
GOP strategist Frank Luntz tells enviros how to persuade
Peak oil – Feb 19
Study sees harmful hunt for extra oil
China’s liquid fuels future
Homer-Dixon talk on collapse
50 peak oil videos from Peak Moment TV
Documentary needs scriptwriters, video editors
Climate – Feb 19
Scientists: too late to save the ice caps?
Bangladesh at the mercy of climate change
Survey on American attitudes to warming
The week in carbon
CERA’s peak oil critique has a credibility problem
CERA’s arguments about peak oil are showing a few chinks in the armor.
Food & agriculture – Feb 19
Sugar rush: consumption jumped from 4 to 90 pounds a year during industrialization
Iraq: Now it is lack of food security
Development gobbling up California farmland
The real cost of bottled water
Economics – Feb 19
‘Oil weapon unleashed against Iran’
Mexico’s economy loses steam
Chávez warns price control violators
Airbus workers wait as job cuts statement delayed
Transport – Feb 19
Business joins greens in fight for rail ‘missing link’
Driving towards disaster
Preparing Nigerian cities for expensive oil
Winner of the great transport race: Trams
German transport minister proposes tax breaks for ‘green’ cars
Why the precautionary principle doesn’t cut both ways
Applying the precautionary principle to the economy misses the point. Environmental regulation may indeed retard economic activity. But that damage, if it occurs, is different in kind from the damage our technology and numbers inflict on the biosphere every day. One may lead to a transient loss of wealth; the other may lead to a colossal loss of human life and of the very civilization we have built.
AAAS president urges swift action to build a sustainable future
“After four decades of studying these issues, I’ve concluded that energy is the core of the environment problem, environment is the core of the energy problem, and resolving the energy-economy-environment dilemma is the core of the problem of sustainable well-being for industrial & developing countries alike.”
Dysfunction – Feb 18
Arctic melting, revealing new sources of oil and gas
NASA climatologist on suppression of science: 5 years from now, we’ll know less
UNICEF: U.S., British children worst off in industrialized world
Court overturns 22-year sentence for SUV fire
Virgin, the dynamo, and the prize
There are two big problems with the Earth Challenge prize. First, and most important, it sends the wrong message to those who are just waking up to the true threat of climate change: it says we can solve this problem by inventing the right techno-fix. …The truth is that we already have all the technology that we need to save ourselves.
