Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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
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
Speech on peak oil by Congressman Bartlett to the House of Representatives.
Covers Admiral Rickover’s prescient remarks in 1957 on energy; critique of the CERA report; Chinese awareness of peak oil.
Father gets schools to demand balance on global warming
Trust us, we’re the media
Free slides on global warming
Letters from Davos
Brown: Real costs of our energy economy
Energy roadmap backs renewables
Canada poll: Climate is top concern
Expect 1,000 year sea-level rise
Professor: Bush’s dangerous energy proposal
Krauthammer: a serious plan requires taxes, ANWR and nukes
Chicken industry issues warning
Feed costs rising: meat groups want study
Roscoe Bartlett: man on a mission (interview)
Two warning beacons heralding the arrival of peak oil: Cantarell and Ghawar
Durango scientist debunks PO ‘myths’
Ten fundamental principles of net energy
Cornell professor says PO could be delayed
Oil at $35?
Street legal mass transport Flintstones-style
How to be good (to yourself)
Unions see greenbacks in ‘green’ future
Real-time energy feedback technology
Daydreaming improves thinking
O, pioneers in Pasadena (urban homesteading)
Heinberg predicts a local food renaissance
BBC: Eat like an ape, get healthy
British supermarkets going green
Deconstructing dinner: thought for food
Food or fuel in future?
Statement issued by the Iraqi Labor Union Leadership at a Seminar held from 10 to 14 December 2006, in Amman, Jordan to discuss the draft Iraqi Oil Law.
Post Carbon: The danger of a few little words
Switching to snake oil
Bush’s bogus cure for our oil addiction
NY Times: Energy rhetoric, and reality
American way of life still not up for negotiation
As the industrial system spins toward exhaustion, seeds of change are sprouting at the base.
