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
Society
Transport – Sept 27
A busy NYC street makes room for bikes
Dutch government takes a stand- against cars, for bikes
Fifteen years of Critical Mass
Folds-mobile
Taking transit: the most effective route to cutting carbon
Health & happiness – Sept 27
Hurricane Katrina exacts another toll: enduring depression
Interview with green pediatrician Alan Greene
He’s happier, she’s less so
Population – Sept 27
Falling German birthrate dispels baby miracle myth
CNN:
Overpopulation could be people, planet problem
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?)
The peak oil crisis: Has the media become the message?
With every passing month, evidence peak world oil production has either passed or is getting very close becomes stronger. Unfortunately, public and congressional recognition of this situation remains virtually zero.
Civilization and succession
One of the basic concepts of ecology — the process of succession — casts an unexpected light on the contemporary crisis of industrial society. Is the industrial world an early stage of succession soon to be supplanted?
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 25
Planning for hard times: The Community Solution
The end is nigh. Be positive
Paul Hawken, Bill McKibben on blessed unrest and deep economics
Permaculture for the post carbon transition
Peak oil conspiracies
Ancient peoples often imagined that any calamity natural or otherwise was the work of displeased gods. Today, we are more enlightened. When we suffer misfortunes such as rising energy prices, some of us immediately imagine small secretive groups in high places engaged in elaborate conspiracies.
Transport – Sept 23
Drivers test paying by mile instead of gas tax
Buffett: Red hot about railroads
Return to the bike? Hard sell in Beijing
Geopolitics – Sept 23
Demographers: Islam and the West – not a clash of civilizations, but a honeymoon
America and Iran: the spark of war
The war is about oil but it’s not that simple
