Solutions & sustainability – Aug 2
The logic of sufficiency / Given enough minds – bridging the ingenuity gap / Something exciting is happening in Britain’s suburbs / So big and healthy Grandpa wouldn’t even know you
Society
Oceans – Aug 2
Lebanon oil spill crisis /
Altered Oceans: 5-part series on the crisis in the seas /
A ‘jaw dropping’ discovery in earth’s oceans: Many more bacteria than expected
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Scientists try to find out why the krill is gone
Apocalypse no!
Apocalypse no! An Indigenist perspective / Converging ecological crises: are we up to the challenges? / Signs of the times
Going Without :: A Search For Our Lost Perspective
How much is enough? Have you ever asked yourself? By purposefully going without we can again understand just how good we’ve got it.
Geopolitics – July 28
The spirit of resistance / Ethiopia invades Somalia / U.S. policy entangled by rising price of oil / Saudi Arabia’s Shiites and their Effect on the Kingdom’s Stability
Healing Crisis
The world is quickly ramping-up toward a full awareness of the various fundamental crises affecting our way of life. How can we move beyond disillusionment and anxiety to embrace the life-changes that are being demanded of us?
Eight ways that modern medicine is oil dependent
Most
of our
modern medical system is oil-dependent, just like the rest of
society. Oil has been so cheap for so long that it has become a
pervasive presence in health care delivery.
China – July 26
China to face energy security crisis by 2010: forecast /
China pursues renewable energy, water and healthcare goals /
China Wind Power Boom May Bust Without Policy Change /
Lord Browne: China and the World Economy: Prospects and Challenges
Cutting out fossil fuels by building community
While individual responsibility to slash fossil fuel use is workable, a more efficient and socially enforcing way is to band together to cut energy waste and share resources and skills.
Transport – July 25
NZ: Overlander rail decision may be reversed by peak oil /
Students hop on planes to save the planet /
Flying on holiday ‘a sin’, says bishop / Lutz: GM building hybrids for good press / EPA report charts the rise and fall of U.S. fuel economy
Peak Moment Television: 16 more episodes
Peak Moment is a television series emphasizing positive responses to energy decline and climate change through local community action. How can we thrive, build stronger communities, and help one another in this time of transition? (16 more episodes are now online.)
Geopolitics – July 24
Encroachment (Failure in Iraq and the prospect of fascism) /
The geopolitics of oil gains a new constituency /
Putin plan to shut out US oil giants /
Iranian army chief: Arab states should cut oil supply to Israel /
Bush told to plan for Chávez oil shock
