Water – Nov 28
From sewage, water for drinking
The (benign) water cops are here
Planetary check-up starts with oceans
Tom Engelhardt: We face worldwide drought with no contingency plan
Society
Housing and urban – Nov 27
Bold new “eco-city” in China?
Rumbling across India to a new life in the city
In miles of alleys, Chicago finds its environmental frontier
Can LEED survive the carbon-neutral era?
Leaps of faith drive ever-expanding ‘burbs
Peak oil activists gather, plan for hard times, will lead the way
Former professor and author David Korten told close to 300 applauding peak oil activists that they are not a fringe minority but the leading edge of a super-majority “and it’s time we start acting like it.” Korten issued his rallying call in October at the “Fourth U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions” in Yellow Springs Ohio last October.
Environment- Nov 21
The ‘stuff’ we buy hurts the birds we love
A future for fishing
Earth’s eighth continent – trash
Water – Nov 21
Big growth, big fight over water in Washington
City to dredge Atlanta’s Lake Lanier – needs water
Our cities, our future – Nov 21
Kunstler: Formerly normal
Walking towns: universities, military bases & pre-auto
European-style bike-sharing programs head to US
Middle class angst: the politics of lemmings
Taking a break
Energy Bulletin will be taking a Thanksgiving break.
Postings are expected to be sparse until Sunday November 25.
Two can live as cheaply – Nov 21
Can shrunken families be reflated?
Sharon Astyk: Getting more butts in your house
Are we green yet?
Couldn’t this Green culture that we are nurturing here in the San Francisco Bay Area become part of our cultural pride and identity, that we then spread to the entire state of California? … Perhaps the Chronicle was not far off in using the headline “heartbreaking” about the Bay oil spill. As one activist pointed out, “It is in the breaking of the heart that we truly discover what it is we feel compelled to do.”
Population – Nov 18
The world’s unsustainable population
Three’s a crowd
U.S. economy — recession, depression, or collapse
The strategy that I have been pursuing to deal with the multiple threats to the Earth is to embed myself within certain institutions, especially schools and churches.
Fascism, feudalism, and the future
A number of writers on peak oil now insist that the American political class intends to impose a “feudal-fascist” regime on the world. A look behind this rhetoric exposes some uncomfortable issues in the contemporary peak oil movement.
