Geopolitics – Sept 25
Appeasement driven by oil (Darfur)
Oil-rich leaders mock Bush team
Blair bemoans Russia oil crisis
World Bank profits from poor countries
West bars IAEA motion on Israel
Society
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 25
Making the Tarmac bloom
Towpaths and bicycle commuting
High Point: Seattle’s green community
Wal-Mart grows ‘green’ strategies
The religious war on bottled water
Mitigating collapse – Sept 23
Orlov: What can young professionals and aging baby boomers do to prepare for America’s collapse?
Orlov: What can young people do to prepare for America’s collapse?
Surviving The Oil Crash: Leadership And Social Structure
Thomas Homer-Dixon: Resiliency & Collapse
Habitat of the motorist
The preferred habitat of the motorist is intrinsically a terrible habitat for the pedestrian, and vice-versa. Places truly congenial for both are a spatial impossibility.
Environment – Sept 21
US droughts may eclipse Dust Bowl
Fires Sweep Indonesian Borneo and Sumatra
Illegal logging costs billions
China taps into foreign water solutions
An Interview with Dennis Meadows – co-author of ‘Limits to Growth’.
I was very lucky at ASPO 5 to get to interview Dennis Meadows, one of the authors of what is probably the most famous environmental book in history, “Limits to Growth”.
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 18
LA Weekly on green building
Oil Depletion Mitigation Bill
Airlines increase disease risks
Book Review: How We Can Save the Planet
Community and Curtailment
The handwriting is on the wall – massive
change is in the offing – and we are totally unprepared. For this New Solutions we will discuss options for addressing these threats under the rubric of four “plans” arbitrarily labeled A, B, C and D.
The good news is local (interview)
Jason Bradford is a PhD evolutionary biologist who studied the effects of climate change on cloud forests in the Andes under the auspices of the Missouri Botanical Garden and other institutions. But in 2004 he switched his focus from study to action by initiating a remarkable community organizing effort in his new home town of Willits, California, called Willits Economic LocaLization (WELL).
Cities Can Save the Earth: the urban solution to climate change, species extinctions and peak oil
Over the past century, our cities have been shaped – literally – by the demands of the automobile. Today, with global oil reserves declining irreversibly, it’s time to face the challenges of the imminent post-oil reality.
Community Solutions
Endless discussion of peak oil statistics isn’t of much interest to me. Nor is sitting around trying to guess the exact date of the arrival of the peak. The response of our communities to this coming era of human history, now that blows my hair back.
Why we need a healthcare Hirsch report
A medical ‘Hirsch report’ would provide useful information for planning and implementing mitigation programs, allowing us to manage the significant expected impacts of oil scarcity and energy descent on healthcare systems.
