U.S. – Feb 28
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
Society
Cleaning up the Big Smoke: Livingstone plans to cut carbon emissions by 60%
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.
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 27
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
Geopolitics – Feb 23
The next attack: oil refineries?
Putin and the geopolitics of the new Cold War
Iraq: The fallacy of bleed-out
Dysfunction – Feb 22
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
Iran – Feb 20
New Yorker on Iran: Troubled waters over oil
Iran – (U.S.) ready to attack
WSJ on
Iran: Crude reality
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 19
Designing outrageously successful projects
Towards a worldbuilding pattern language
GOP strategist Frank Luntz tells enviros how to persuade
Community – Feb 17
Smaller Footprints, Cooler Stuff and More Cash
Relearning how to live as voluntary peasants
Escape from America
Energy: healthcare’s preconditional crisis
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,
Housing & urban design – Feb 14
American Dream, downsized
Wayne Co. foreclosure rate leads the nation (due to auto industry cuts)
Beyond Moscow, dachas make way for suburbia
Geopolitics – Feb 14
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
Energy round-up
Energy stories that we’re watching.
