Transport – Aug 11
Ford heralds slow demise of SUV / McDonald’s puts toy Hummers in its Happy Meals for children / Polluter scooters
Society
The good life in Havana: Cuba’s green revolution
Twenty years ago, following the collapse of the Soviet empire, Fidel Castro’s small island faced a food crisis. Today, its network of small urban farmers is thriving, an organic success story that is feeding the nation.
Geopolitics – Aug 10
US Army War College: Access to Saudi Arabian oil /
Iran threatens to use ‘oil weapon’ in nuclear standoff /
Kunstler: Heating Up, Melting Down /
Fuel shortages in Lebanon a grave threat to people’s health /
Karbuz: Israel Lebanon War and BTC Pipeline /
Chomsky: Apocalypse near
When oilmen turn sour on crude
Former oilman Jeffrey Brown and activist Nan Hildreth have been spreading the Peak Oil message. They’re part of a Peak Oil mini-conference this Sunday in Houston.
Water shortages – Aug 8
World’s Water Resources Face Mounting Pressure /
Thirsty Planet /
Retreating glaciers take Earth’s water stores /
More than two million people face shortage of drinking water in China /
Chinese Impose Rules for Water Use /
Saving The World, Drip By Drip /
EB news round-up
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 8
Mayer Hillman on carbon rationing and the UK energy review (Audio) /
Professor Daniel Gilbert on “The Party’s Over: Going Local” (Audio) /
Isolated Americans trying to connect /
Conversation with Bill Kemp about off-grid living /
In planning energy future, think local, small and clean /
Energy-efficient homes the wave of the future /
The Visionary Life of Murray Bookchin
The New Frontier
As an unusually long and sweltering heat wave enveloped the traditionally mild San Francisco Bay Area, power outages knocked out air conditioning, and gas prices under $3.00 a gallon seemed like leisure suits or vinyl LPs, relics of a long forgotten era, those who have been warning of the consequences of global warming and the eventual decline of a fossil fuel-based life felt an awkward sense of vindication.
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 6
Argentina’s recuperadas build a cooperative future /
Other Economies are Possible! /
The Buy-Nothing Year Begins /
Car Free Cities :: Do Such Mythical Places Exist?
Apocalypse always: Is the peak oil movement really just another apocalyptic cult?
Even if peak oil production turns out to be decades away, the contributions of the peak oil movement are already manifold. The people involved are forcing a re-evaluation not only of the idea of energy and its sources, but of the very way in which we live
Peak oil – Aug 5
Interview: Michael Armstrong, staff to the Portland Peak Oil Task Force / Hirsch talk at U of Calgary (slides) / San Francisco Supervisor on peak oil / 3rd Community Solutions peak oil conference – Ohio Sept 22-24
Urban design – Aug 5
London: How to write low-carbon policies /
Jane Jacobs, reconsidered / Stockholm: goodbye, for now, to a successful traffic congestion tax
Geopolitics – Aug 3
The Three Energy Wars /
Sistani Threatens US over Israeli War on Lebanon /
Kunstler: Afghanistan, Iraq and The American Dream (Video) /
Lebanon, Syria, Iran and the Coming Imperialist Re-Division of the World /
Saudi Arabia rules out oil weapon
