Energy round-up
Energy stories that we’re watching.
Society
Worldviews – Feb 9
An Islamic view: ‘Rampant’ society upsets natural order
David Korten interview
Living in a state of exponential delusion
Marxism and the ecology of destruction
Housing & urban design – Feb 7
The ubiquitous sprawls of America
Exurbs hardest hit in recent housing slump
Scholars to consider the shrinking of cities
United States – Feb 7
Cheney’s fund manager attacks…Cheney (US energy policy)
From Afghanistan to Iraq: Connecting the dots
Going for broke On climate change
Image of change: not Toyota Prius, but the Berlin Wall crashing down
Peter Russell on life after oil, change and consciousness.
We’re going to be in completely new situations which we’ve never encountered before and the ways of the past are not really appropriate.
Geopolitics – Feb 5
The fortunate fifth
Susan George on JM Keynes International Clearing Union
Greek Cyprus and Turkey oil conflict grows
Dilip Hiro’s “Blood of the Earth” – battle for the world’s vanishing oil resources
Ahmadinejad held hostage to bazaar politics
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 4
Using Visioning as a Powerful Protest Tool
Time to Get Serious About Post Carbon Training
Petition – Restoring Scientific Integrity in Policymaking
Place in 2007
Home economics, sustainability and the “mommy wars”
We have created not only physical dependencies on cheap energy, but psychological ones, so that no matter how much harm our dependencies do, we now fear to live any other way.
Young professionals and peak oil
Young Professionals are vulnerable to the shocks that Peak Oil will bring to our society, but we are also well equipped to tackle energy descent, perhaps more realistically than others who simplistically advocate alternative fuels and vague technological fixes.
10 First Steps for a Transition Town Initiative
How to inspire and co-ordinate local engagement in peak oil and relocalisation planning.
Dysfunction – Jan 29
Kunstler on Martha Stewart: housing fetish
NYC becoming “the city that never walks”?
Scotland: Energy crisis as power cuts loom
Selling off Aotearoa (New Zealand)
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 29
Why some ideas stick and others don’t
Viridian Greens: “We are winning!”
Hand-made vacation
U.S. consumers, companies feeling green
