Cities – Oct 5
Gas tax in SF Bay Area?
Global warming requires local solutions
Congestion relief = climate relief?
Society
Geopolitics – Oct 5
Geopolitical feedback loops in peak oil
The E.P.R. targets Mexico’s energy industry
Japan finds it hard to tap Africa for oil, gas
China and the competition for energy resources
Russian oil industry: Foreign, domestic interests
Oil prices – Kenya & Africa due for crude awakening
The holiness of Stuart Staniford
Ruminations about Stuart Staniford’s work at The Oil Drum from a Christian perspective, why he exhibits some religious virtues and why the doomer perspective does not.
Transport – Oct 3
S.F. catching up with European bike-share programs
Todd Litman: saving gas, lives & the environment
The moral dangers of adventure tourism
Happiness – Oct 3
Is great happiness too much of a good thing?
Against happiness
On average, religious people are much happier than nonreligious ones
Traditional dance as way to fight addictions
Marital spats, taken to heart
Deep thought – Oct 2
Nate Hagens at ASPO-6
Vandana Shiva: How to address humanity’s global crises?
Sharon Astyk:
Collateral damage
11th Hour offers solutions to inconvenient truths
Transport – Oct 2
We paved paradise (parking lots)
Good and bad news on US fuel-economy trends
Hauliers threaten blockades as Brown’s 3 tax rises bring petrol to £1 a litre
Housing & urban design – Oct 1
New era of tribal living has arrived
In heart of Texas, drumbeat for green (Austin)
To go green, live closer to work, report says
San Francisco takes action on climate change
Birth of EcoDensity backlash in Vancouver
Solutions & sustainabiity – Oct 1
Lifestyle changes prepare Boulder for energy changes
Shut up about the deckchairs! (ASPO and eco-villages)
Gaviotas: The village that could save the planet
Families bond over green choices
Transforming a community through local business
The nonheroes of peak oil
We laud heroes who save us from dangers that are immediate and concrete. The most obscure of heroes are those who prevent bad things from happening
Geopolitics – Sept 27
Dilip Hiro: It’s the oil, stupid (Iraq)
Bolivia’s Evo to UN: “Let’s respect our Mother Earth”
An international court to try ecological crimes?
Iran gets over 70pc oil income in non-US currencies
Deep thought – Sept 27
Quantifying American overextension
UN: 35 years to half-extinction
Mundane science fiction (what if there is no quick and easy escape route?)
