Solutions & sustainability – Feb 27
‘Eco-awakening’ affects lifestyle choices
Relocalization Network newsletter
Peak Moment TV newsletter
Peak energy tour coming to UK in 2008
Society
Transport – Feb 27
Smogville could become a velotopia (L.A. had a cycleway in 1900)
Oil changes every 3,000 miles: not for everyone
Airlines plummet on oil
Transport after petroleum (cartoon)
The five stages of collapse
A taxonomy of collapse. For those of us who have gone through the emotional stages of reconciling ourselves to the prospect of social and economic upheaval, it might be helpful to have a more precise terminology that goes beyond such emotionally charged phrases as the ever-popular “Collapse of Western Civilization.”
Housing & urban design – Feb 25
Earthships and the Garbage Warrior
Radiant City: Canadian documentary on sprawl
Government seeks UK’s first ‘cycling city’
The cult of continuity
History is chock full of wars, the rise and fall of empires and of whole civilizations, ravaging plagues, breathtaking discoveries, vast migrations, world-changing inventions and cultural evolution. So, it is a puzzle why so much emphasis is now put on the supposed inevitable continuity of modern industrial life.
The church model for environmental groups
What would be required to start neighborhood groups that might engage people within our existing communities, and enable those communities to start preparing for climate change and peak oil?
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 20
Well, Doctor, I have this recycling problem
Tantalising glimpses of resilience (Hunza)
Luz Girl of the Knowing (peak oil cartoon)
Food for body and soul
New models of shared leadership
Shock tactics (displaying electricity usage)
Housing & urban design – Feb 20
£25 congestion charge will hit 30,000 of worst polluting vehicles, says London mayor
KunstlerCast: Drugstores
L.A. to enact tighter green building standards
Passive survivability – buildings remain livable when electricity, fuel or water are unavailable
Deep thought – Feb 18
Missing: the ‘right’ babies
Hierarchy is the result of dependency
Entropy is the problem, not energy
United States: criticism/self-criticism session
Are Americans hostile to knowledge?
The dumbing of America
The US state of denial
The former United States of America
Saving the world starts at home
New York Times on eco-moms
Sharon Astyk on ‘Pleasures’
Generation Green taking on parents
Going green for 80 cents a day
Geopolitics – Feb 15
OPEC finance chiefs to discuss $ oil pricing
The door to Iraq’s oil opens
Iranians scheme to elude sanctions
Energy policy is foreign policy
