Solutions & sustainability – Dec 15
MIT president: A model for tackling the energy challenge
CSIRO Sustainability Network Newsletter
Re-thinking progress: Well-being as the focus of policy
Green revolution sweeping construction industry
Economics – Dec 15
Oil producers shun dollar
Globalisation, the $ and Saudi Arabia
The great wealth transfer
Top-level insiders selling their stock
A loan that’ll get ugly fast
Is deflation possible in the U.S.?
Consumption & health – Dec 15
Luxuries of past become necessities
Fattest people on planet
The exhaustion epidemic
Has politics contaminated the food supply?
Vegetarianism: the choice of the ‘more intelligent’ child
Renewables – Dec 15
80 Congress members pen letter to Bush for renewables
Germany sees potential in biomass
Renewable energy can’t save consumer society
UK: Wind farms ‘are failing to generate the predicted amount of electricity’
Geothermal: Man-made tremor shakes Basel
10,600 scientists condemn political interference in science
A statement by Nobel laureates and other leading scientists calling for the restoration of scientific integrity to federal policy making has now been signed by 10,600 scientists from all 50 states.
Nawida 2150
A final narrative exploration of life in a deindustrial future, fifty more years and several rounds of planetary change after “Solstice 2100.”
Population and the Sixth Great Extinction
Flying blind to the brink of extinction
The impending mass extinction & how to stop it
Complex marine systems evolved after mass extinction of earth species
Evangelicals on extinction
Nine billion or bust!
Population: Apocalypse now
China’s water shortage a population problem
(One part of) A unified climate/energy agenda
How can green groups unify their message on climate/energy? What kind of agenda could they all get behind?
Biofuels – Dec 13
Biodevastation, hunger & false carbon credits
Biofuels seen as a luxury China cannot afford
Sun worship – advantages of biomass
South Africa: Biofuels ‘could drive up staple food price’
Oil and Iraq – Dec 13
PSAs and Iraqi oil
ISG report: Has the Empire really failed?
The Baker Boys: stay half the course
Russia – Dec 13
Russia gets tough on energy sales to Europe
U.S. senator urges use of NATO defense clause for energy
The KGB’S great power-grab
$20bn gas project seized by Russia
Peak oil – Dec 13
Coming soon – Escape from Suburbia!
Review – New Peak Oil Film “Crude Impact”
Interview with James Howard Kunstler
Elephants and quagmires: PO & the Bush denial
The foundations of peak-oil doomerism
