Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Australian PM John Howard and Defence Minister Brendan Nelson have finally decided to adopt the realist position on the Iraq war and admit that it is about controlling the oil.
Leaving the morality of the situation aside, the debate should now focus on a full cost benefit analysis of whether the price we will pay for this exercise in militant mercantilism is actually worth it.
Update: Apparently Johnny is now saying that oil has nothing to do with it after all.
Clear Up the Congestion-Pricing Gridlock
Near the rails but still on the road
Plane Stupid activists give aviation a bumpy ride
Ontario to introduce truck speed limiters
Bikes beat the rush in commuter challenge
Excerpts from recent Australian documentary on home energy use and efficiency.
My pleasant walk through these leafy streetscapes is deceptive. For all its orderliness this neighborhood generates enormous entropy that is hidden from the viewer’s eyes. This has implications for our political life because these are the kinds of neighborhoods across the United States from which communities draw their leaders and in which turnout is heaviest during election time.
America could do with a few feral beasts
Investigative journalism and the Washington elite
Moyers on Murdoch
Newsreader’s anger over Paris story (rips it up on camera)
The Murdoch Factor
Wall St Journal staff stay away in protest against Murdoch takeover plans
Fears of ‘transport poverty’
Is there a Model T in your future?
Get Americans to drive less by raising gas taxes
California has worst U.S. traffic
Public transit ridership in Canada hits record
A flight path to greener air travel
From living hell to living well: A radical campaign to return streets from cars to people in Columbia’s largest city is now a model for the world.
At least one prominent person in the peak oil movement says he can no longer justify attending overseas conferences because of the energy used and the greenhouse gases emitted. And yet, to forego travel and modern methods of communication altogether would be to engage in unilateral disarmament.
Dubai’s hot new buses
Netherlands trials free public transport at hotspots
Manchester expands security scheme for cyclists
Firms turn up heat on SNP in bid to save trams
More US commuters drive solo
Drivers unfazed by new energy bill
Hubs of economy face rain shortfall in Australia
California facing the ‘perfect drought’
Desalination no answer to water crisis: WWF
Can we be happy using less energy? Uhh..YES!
Constitutionally unsuited to the 21st century
Unlucky to have a job
The company we keep (business organization)
