Geopolitics – Aug 26
– Ukraine won’t siphon Russian gas – PM
– Energy is focus for Chavez in China
– Russia spins global energy spider’s web
– Moscow making Central Asia its own
Society
Energy crises – Aug 24
Turkish power outages to follow if drought continues / South Africa: Cape’s third energy crisis / Nepalese protests sink fuel price hikes
Urban design – Aug 24
– Cities healthy for cars, unhealthy for people
– Building the New Urbanism
– Eco-friendly small-town America
Chimpanzees and culture change
“Female, age 40, seeks wild, swinger male for procreation purposes, no commitments. Bonobo preferred but regular chimpanzee acceptable.”
Transport – Aug 24
– “Autocism” – a modern pathology
– Roadway deaths at highest level in 15 years
– Put a plug in it (electric cars)
– Living in California without owning a car
The Renewed Activist
As an environmental activist at the peak of industrial civilization I’ve always felt like the underdog. I’ve imagined myself as a street-protesting, petition-signing, door-to-door knocking David trying to bring down a money-wielding, corporate-clad, government-shielded Goliath.
Water scarcity – Aug 23
Map details global water stress /
Need for Water Could Double in 50 Years, U.N. Study Finds /
Scientists Call for Water Conservation
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 22
Fight or flight? / That’s enough oil – I’m going to make my own energy from now on / Meditations on deciding never to fly again / 3rd U.S. conference on peak oil and community solutions (Ohio Sept 22-24) /
APSO 5: Plan B – enabling relocalisation as a response to peak oil
Geopolitics – Aug 22
Energy crisis – the culprit is national oil companies & socialism [Not!] / Sino-Cuba energy relations raise concern in Washington /
Russian pipeline monopoly warns Lithuanian refinery of long shutoff / Bolivia suspends a takeover of oil and gas / Japan and China race for African oil
Travel – Aug 22
Portland: Where the car is not king /
Airlines tremble at prospect of $100-a-barrel oil /
Scotland’s love affair with the motor car is waning /
California’s SUV Ban /
The future of travel: where do we go from here?
Real men don’t go vroom
The Tesla would show the world that electric cars were definitely not dead yet. In fact the Tesla might well be the death knell of the combustion engine itself.
Telling Somebody
A letter from one friend to another
