Society

Transport – May 26

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Fuel suppliers demand airlines pay cash in advance
Houston has lift-off as oil price rises (airline worries)
End of the road for British motorists
Railroads 4 times more fuel efficient than trucks

Co-founder of sustainable design movement illuminates our uncertain futures

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The Australian co-founder of the permaculture concept David Holmgren has today launched a new global scenario planning website, Future Scenarios. Holmgren says his future scenarios will help both policy makers and activists come to terms with the end of the era of growth. “The simultaneous onset of climate change and the peaking of global oil supply represent unprecedented challenges for human civilisation. Each limits the effective options for responses to the other,” writes Holmgren.

Cultural Conservers

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Among the most challenging dimensions of the crisis of industrial civilization is the task of preserving its immense cultural heritage into a future where today’s technologies of communication and information storage will likely no longer be available. The emergence of cultural conservers — individuals who make the preservation of some part of our cultural heritage a personal mission — offers one option for dealing with this challenge.