Solutions and Sustainability Headlines – Jan 18
Institute for Urban-Style Family Living: Advocating mixed-use, transit-friendly neighborhoods /
CSIRO Sustainability Network Update /
The Simpler Way (new format)
Society
Politics and Economics – Jan 18
Iran issues stark warning on oil price / Russia reports $300 million net inflow / UK Union pushes clean coal and nuclear / Food as commodity / A Gas Gobbler That’s Worth Keeping / Rocky road for auto companies / Interview with oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens / Limit fertilizer to control costs, farmers urged
Other Energy – Jan 17
Doubts over ‘clean’ nuke power / Corn farmers smile at ethanol prices / Startup hopes to tap electricity from trees / Natural gas: the next energy crisis? / Canada, the US, and the Tar Sands / Power companies predict return of coal [2]
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 16
Worldwatch: China, India set stage for environment-friendly world /
Doomsday vault to avert world famine /
Personal responsibility in an era of imminent depletion /
Green marketing and the ‘4/40 Gap’ /
Kipchoge Spencer of Xtracycle and Worldbike
Drivers In For A Shock
Roger Adair on Irish drivers in denial, the collapse of complex societies and addressing an imagination deficit of viable Peak Oil strategies.
Adapting zones and sectors for the city
Proposed solutions are often so big and general that we feel helpless. What can one person do about the Kyoto protocol? Permaculture brings a unique emphasis on what can be done by individuals and small groups, fostering a sense of empowerment. This article describes how a classic permaculture technique — zone and sector analysis — can be adapted to deal with peak oil and climate change.
Peak Oil and the Preservation of Knowledge (full)
Computers are the top card in the house-of-cards complex civilization we built with coal and oil, argues Alice Friedemann. How do we leave our descendents knowledge they can use and be amazed by, information to fuel the next Renaissance?
The Future of Sprawl: Interview with Dr. Richard Harris
Professor Richard Harris talks to Trevor Shaw about the logic of suburbia and the future of sprawl.
Politics and Economics – 5 Jan
Kremlin reasserts control of oil, gas /
Europe Frets About Russian Energy Reliance /
IEA Deputy Head:Russia Gas Cut Is A “Serious Mistake” /
European gas crisis is warning to Britain /
Middle East gas critical for global energy supply /
Porter: Oil Market Outlook 2006: Future Imperfect /
Iraq’s oil exports hit lowest level since war oil /
Iraq moves to tackle fuel crisis /
Word Spreads in Iraq of Refinery Shutdown /
Blood Flows With Oil in Poor Nigerian Villages /
Shell ships 1st oil from Nigeria’s 1st deepwater field
Solutions and Sustainability Headlines – 2 Jan
Monbiot: The Anti-social bastards in our midst / Heating: Camping out at home / Sweden seeks oil independence / Conserve Energy; Be Idle / Bioremediation in New Orleans / Microscopically Local and Personal Article on Energy / Creating Self Reliant Communities Now
Peak Oil – Dec 30
The Politics of Energy and the Environment / The peak oil crisis: sliding down the flagpole / Peak oil piques energy concern / GPM Interviews from ASPO-USA confence: Bezdek, Skrebowski, Simmons, Hickenlooper, Groppe, A. Bartlett, Udall / eMagazine – The outlook on oil
The Quest For Nuanced Understanding of Complex Realities Of Exurbia
One example of the backlash against “the new catastrophist cult” is examined for relevance to reality.
