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)
Society
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
Give me a child until…
How will we ever get a critical mass of awareness and willingness to change and prepare for a post-peak, post-meltdown, relocalized world when we are all indoctrinated from cradle to grave into supporting and being part of industrial growth culture?
Transport – Jan 28
The electric wheel- breakthrough in car efficiency
The soul of a pedicab chauffeur
Get ready, tram haters: Locals want more
Portland’s classy new tram
10 vanishing wonders – fly to see them?
Geopolitics – Jan 28
Saudi officials seek to temper the price of oil
“Toughness” against Russia on gas – stupid
Russia’s managed democracy
U.S. moves to regain leverage over Iran
Report challenges Blair’s views on Iran
The greatest challenge
For decades, many prophets’ words have been lost in the winds of exuberant growth of human presence in this biosphere. But now, the reality of the finite energy and material resources may finally be creeping into the public consciousness. (Sermon)
Unlearning helplessness
Helplessness:
“the exaggerated feeling of lack of control, of enormous danger, of inability to respond to danger, that comes from repeated exposure to actual or apparent threats.”
Rx:
1) get our facts straight.
2) become less helpless
3) learn how the world really works
Energy resources and our future
Speech on peak oil by Congressman Bartlett to the House of Representatives.
Covers Admiral Rickover’s prescient remarks in 1957 on energy; critique of the CERA report; Chinese awareness of peak oil.
Getting the word out – Jan 25
Making a statement by keeping silent
Is this the end of the scholarly journal?
PR’s ‘pit bull’ takes on open access
China soon to be world’s biggest internet user
The crunchy mystique
There are many points of convergence between this newly identified brand of crunchy (slang for counter-cultural) conservative creature and the eco-hippie crunchy liberal. (Book review)
The Theory of Anyway
95% of what is needed to resolve the coming crisis in energy depletion, or climate change, are changes we should be making “Anyway”
Geopolitics – Jan 25
New US strategy on Iran emerges from Davos
India’s ambition:
An elephant can run very fast
Oil the reason for US attack on Somalia
Somalia – A trip down memory hole lane
