Give me a child until…

How will we ever get a critical mass of awareness and willingness to change and prepare for a post-peak, post-meltdown, relocalized world when we are all indoctrinated from cradle to grave into supporting and being part of industrial growth culture?

Kudos for seeing the problem. Now do something

In short, [President Bush], it’s all fine and good to ask the car companies and other manufacturing and business enterprises to deliver more fuel-efficient products and services. It’s the right thing to preach against oil addiction. But it’s all relatively meaningless if no one in power does anything to wake American consumers from their pleasant dream of cheap oil forever.

Biofuels – Jan 28

Mexico grapples with soaring prices for corn – and tortillas
US corn exports may fall as ethanol use rises
As corn price rises, so could food bills

Biofuel trade disadvantages poor nations

Transport – Jan 28

The electric wheel- breakthrough in car efficiency

The soul of a pedicab chauffeur
Get ready, tram haters: Locals want more
Portland’s classy new tram

10 vanishing wonders – fly to see them?

Geopolitics – Jan 28

Saudi officials seek to temper the price of oil

“Toughness” against Russia on gas – stupid
Russia’s managed democracy
U.S. moves to regain leverage over Iran
Report challenges Blair’s views on Iran

Climate – Jan 28

TOD: Greenland, or why you might care about ice physics
New IPCC report – the sugarcoated version?

Experts split over climate danger to Antarctica
Bush’s climate remarks weighed for policy shift

Food & agriculture – Jan 28

UK Soil Assn: Preparing for a post-peak oil food and farming future (Podcasts)
Soil Assn considers sanctions on air freight
Michael Pollard essay: “Unhappy Meals”

Biofuels – 28 Jan

Brazils president urges US to invest in biofuels in poorer countries

Understanding the corn ethanol EROI divide

US corn exports to fall as ethanol use rises

As corn price rises, so could food bills

Expanded Biofuel Production Expected to Drive Up Food Prices

Nuclear – Jan 28

Nuclear waste containers will not work, say scientists

With apologies, nuclear power gets a second look

Does nuclear power now make financial sense?

Attack on Iran would be ‘catastrophic’, IAEA says

Energy sources – Jan 27

Cambodia’s coming energy bonanza
Future of
NG from the Western Canada sedimentary basin

Long Beach LNG project halted
Years of flaws have killed Yucca Mtn nuclear repository, NRC member says

Climate – Jan 27

Bill McKibben: Step it up!
US answer to global warming: smoke and giant space mirrors
We’re ruining Earth, scientists warn (IPCC)
UN’s vast report ends the scientific argument, but will the world act?
Davos – not united on global warming

Unlearning helplessness

Helplessness:
“the exaggerated feeling of lack of control, of enormous danger, of inability to respond to danger, that comes from repeated exposure to actual or apparent threats.”

Rx:
1) get our facts straight.
2) become less helpless
3) learn how the world really works