Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
As we approach the peak of world oil production, and proposed solutions proliferate, the social momentum of the industrial world moves the other way. The connection between the two sides of this paradox may be closer than it appears.
A detailed plan to slash London’s carbon emissions by 60% within 20 years and place the city at the forefront of the battle against climate change will be announced by Mayor Ken Livingstone.
The Economist: Here’s hoping it’s Gore to the rescue
Gov. Schweitzer speaks before Senate panel
US’s Iraq oil grab is a done deal
Air Force to certify all B-52s for GTL-blend use
Challenges and advances in Solar Cooking
Cleaner consumption and the low-carbon life
Making green computing even greener
Local Currencies: Replacing Scarcity with Trust
Report of change
Lost in the bush 40 minutes from Auckland
The next attack: oil refineries?
Putin and the geopolitics of the new Cold War
Iraq: The fallacy of bleed-out
Children’s TV ‘is linked to cancer, autism, dementia’
Scientific evidence: TV rots brain, ruins body
Malaysia to confine foreign workers
Endangered languages encode plant and animal knowledge
New Yorker on Iran: Troubled waters over oil
Iran – (U.S.) ready to attack
WSJ on
Iran: Crude reality
Designing outrageously successful projects
Towards a worldbuilding pattern language
GOP strategist Frank Luntz tells enviros how to persuade
Smaller Footprints, Cooler Stuff and More Cash
Relearning how to live as voluntary peasants
Escape from America
Modern healthcare is dependent upon enormous inputs of energy and an array of petroleum-derived products. Nevertheless, there is silence and inaction regarding the threats posed by the end of the fossil fuel era,
American Dream, downsized
Wayne Co. foreclosure rate leads the nation (due to auto industry cuts)
Beyond Moscow, dachas make way for suburbia
Al-Qaida urges strikes on U.S. oil sources
West adds to strains on Iran’s lifeline
Stan Goff: Persian peril redux
India on the front line in energy war
