Transport – Feb 6
For Teenagers, the Car Is the Danger Zone
Subdivisions in remote areas increase cost county services
China expands ship-rail transport
Why Don’t You Walk More?
The agenda restated
Quit wishing and start doing. The best way to feel hopeful about the future is to get off your ass and demonstrate to yourself that you are a capable, competent individual resolutely able to face new circumstances.
One of Kunstler’s best. -Ed
Peter Russell on life after oil, change and consciousness.
We’re going to be in completely new situations which we’ve never encountered before and the ways of the past are not really appropriate.
Five axioms of sustainability
If leaders do not begin to abide by these axioms, society as a whole, or some aspects of it, will assuredly collapse.
Geopolitics – Feb 5
The fortunate fifth
Susan George on JM Keynes International Clearing Union
Greek Cyprus and Turkey oil conflict grows
Dilip Hiro’s “Blood of the Earth” – battle for the world’s vanishing oil resources
Ahmadinejad held hostage to bazaar politics
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
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.
