Environment – Jan 8
Life on Mars? We may have found it – and killed it
Grim prognosis for Earth
How quickly are animals and plants disappearing, and does it matter?
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 8
10 books on solutions for energy descent
Google hires William McDonough to design green center
Online activism 2.0: movement building
Energy consumption – Jan 8
Clean air vs. TV in poor India villages
Japan:
the land of rising conservation
Taking control of electric bill, hour by hour
E. Europe: Open windows in winter
Colorado’s electricity infrastructure needs jump-start
Peak oil – Jan 8
Slick new Peak Oil Primer from ASPO-Spain
Heinberg: bridging peak oil and climate change activism
Kunstler: A wake-up call in the shadow of oil scarcity
Kunstler foreshadowed
Reason: political peak oil
Food & agriculture – Jan 8
World may be facing highest grain prices in history
Era of cheap world food ending
Hard to swallow (food worse than cars for climate?)
An inconvenient truth: we are eating our planet to death
PAY DIRT: Fighting global warming with a ‘dirty’ strategy
Iran – Jan 7
U.S. puts squeeze on Iran’s oil fields
Iran oil exports could dwindle
Iranian petro crisis and US national security
Revealed: Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran
Peak oil – Jan 7
Oil: fast-vanishing drug the world can’t live without
An almost friendly update on world oil
Scientific American and the silent lie
Bartlett to introduce PO and energy bills to Congress
Of leeches & midwives?
Transport – Jan 7
Car boom puts Europe on road to a smoggy future
Rise of low-cost flights comes at high price
Labour targets airlines over carbon emissions
Climate – Jan 7
Global warming may change Amazon
El Niño + global warming
2007 predicted to be world’s warmest year
Unseasonable flowering in the Netherlands
Tibet’s record temperatures
Tropical diseases back as Europe warms up
Misplacing the apocalypse
The foundation of the “doomer” perspective is implicitly theological – and as such is open to theological critique.
War, Iraq, oil – Jan 7
War and cheap oil: a second look
The new Middle East: close of the American era
Future of Iraq: The spoils of war
The Independent on the oil rush
How the West will profit from Iraq’s most precious commodity
Iraqi possible oil contracts (PSAs): some facts
New books – Jan 7
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization by Thomas Homer-Dixon
How the New Oil Industry Will Change People, Politics and Portfolios by Bill Paul
Diamonds In My Pocket by Amanda Kovattana
