Am I romanticizing poverty?
Sharon Astyk is one of us in the peak oil movement who advocates relocalisation and self sufficiency. Is this vision based on a romantic notion?
Peak oil and geopolitics – Jan 22
Klare: Geopolitical consequences of peak oil
Kissinger: The new Iraq strategy
The draining of Africa’s wealth
TOD: Trade, transportation and the Chinese finger trap
Bush and energy policy – Jan 22
Bush expected to stress energy security
Bush to call for improved fuel economy?
Experts from Post-Carbon Inst available to comment on SOTU
Pelosi, Reid discuss upcoming SOTU, warming
Sacrifices necessary with new energy plan
Climate – Jan 22
The impressive Warwick McKibbin – a new kind of carbon trading?
Joseph Romm, author of ‘Hell and High Water’
The insurance climate change – the Market speaks
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 22
Where to go if you want to live to be 100
Newsweek: 7 ways to save the world
Could smart urban design keep people fit and trim?
Retrofitting For Passive Solar
Elegant solutions to fossil fuel free home heating.
Patrick Holden on Peak Oil and the Transition Towns concept
Soil Association director Patrick Holden in interview says, “I believe that localism and cellular, from the ground up activity will be the defining impulse of 21st century agriculture.”
The unknown unknowns
With each doubling of knowledge, we get a doubling of ignorance.
Ending industrialism
We will have to be much more imaginative as a people if we are to take meaningful action to deal with global warming. It is a simple truth that economic activity that transforms the Earth into consumer products is the main problem.
The ethical challenges of healthcare and peak oil
It is particularly likely that ethical dilemmas will arise during the redesign of the healthcare system as a response to peak oil. This is because there will be a conflict between what is best for society as a whole, versus what is best for the individual.
Peak oil – Jan 21
Update from Kenneth Deffeyes
Conoco reserves disappoint analysts
Modern economic theories unable to tackle peak oil, global warming
Rep. Bartlett supports H.R. 6 energy bill
Australian drought – Jan 21
Drought and corporate profit
Australia ponders climate future
Coral study: more Asian monsoons = more severe Aus droughts
Supermarket’s drought action day
Drought drag on economic growth
More: Snakes, floods, and cracking buildings…
