Oil industry – Feb 5
Oil workers targeted as Nigeria violence grows
Peru’s Amazon oil deals denounced
Mixing oil and water
Oil Search, Exxon drop Papua New Guinea gas gipeline
Local climate change – Feb 5
Switzerland: Global warming and tourism
Grim global warming prognosis for Western US
Queensland to drink waste water
Vietnam highly vulnerable to climate change
Energy conservation – Feb 5
Chavez takes up energy conservation
Turkey: It’s “you” who will save the world
War and skis
Arabs urged to use energy judiciously
No quick fix to Eskom energy crisis
Climate science – Feb 5
You’re getting warmer (review of IPCC)
A disaster epic (in slo-mo)
Phaeton’s reins: The human hand in climate change
Global-warming report gets U.S. emphasis
Global warming poses health threats
Global warming myths and lies
A collection of rebuttals for the most prominent arguments put forth by the folks who deny anthropogenic climate change.
Climate science – Feb 4
Methane now bubbling from Beaufort Sea
Ice island the size of London threatens rigs
Race against the clock
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 4
Using Visioning as a Powerful Protest Tool
Time to Get Serious About Post Carbon Training
Petition – Restoring Scientific Integrity in Policymaking
Place in 2007
Environmentalists Need to Help Fight Bush’s Ethanol Surge
Corn-based ethanol has been at the center of a well-funded misinformation campaign launched and
perpetuated by the Bush Administration.
Food & agriculture – Feb 4
Agrophilia
Vandana Shiva on Food Relocalisation
City Farmer Interview
Fordlandia
Yes – in 10 years we may have no bananas
Limits to Growth co-author says collapse due to climate possible
It is unlikely that oil scarcity will prove capable of triggering a global collapse, according to Norwegian scholar Jorgen Randers, co-author of the prophetic 1972 book The Limits to Growth. “The period of high oil prices will give strong stimulus for increased energy efficiency,” he said. However, the rapid increase in emissions of climate gases does have the potential to cause a collapse.
(Article and podcast)
Home economics, sustainability and the “mommy wars”
We have created not only physical dependencies on cheap energy, but psychological ones, so that no matter how much harm our dependencies do, we now fear to live any other way.
Peak oil – Feb 2
Orlov: Collapse and its discontents
A day in a life without oil
Agriculture meets PO at Soil Association
Farming, supermarkets & the end of cheap oil
