Let them wear hats

Environmental organizations do not ask people to change their fashion sense or consider warming up their body and not the house like the Japanese do. No one is asked to change anything. Just program the thermostat and forget about it.

Auto & air – Dec 15

Enough electric capacity for plug-in vehicles
Why we drive
The pernicious price of petroleum
Distance-based auto insurance
Ethical travel – Monbiot interview
Richard Branson: Embracing ethanol and slashing airplane emissions

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

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

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