Getting there from here
Report from the front lines of the struggle against excess and consumerism.
Society
Solutions and sustainability – Nov 11
Native wind power /
Guinea pig; the other ‘other white meat’ /
Change-a-leujah! Reverend Billy and Savatri D on anti-consumerism /
A disgraceful signal at Amtrak /
Two futures: the sustainable home
Solutions and sustainability – Nov 9
San Francisco’s clean-tech report card /
Cool idea helps save energy, environment /
When cleaner air Is a biblical obligation /
Sweating the big stuff at Grist Magazine /
Bill McKibben: Curitiba as a global model for development /
To save endangered butterfly, become a butterfly /
Interview: Sir Jonathon Porritt – a carbon-constrained world
Solutions and Sustainability Headlines – 7 November 2005
Livability isn’t sustainability / Swedish tenant owner cooperative starts oil break with geothemal heating / Community resource management: old rules, and new sustainable ones / British to help China build ‘eco-cities’
Politics and Economics Headlines – 7 November, 2005
What do you want Dubai? / IEA forecast of future oil price rises by a third / Arabs riot in oil-rich Iran province / Iran oil bourse:a threat to the petrodollar? / Bush urged to use heating oil reserve / Denvers’ Mayor sets scooter example / Oil producers are urged to invest in more capacity
Peak Oil Headines – 7 November, 2005
Faith-based energy policy? / A way out of Iraq: relocalize economic life / UK gov. to launch new oil depletion study / Peak oil workshop for community leaders Dec 2-4, Illinois / Life After Cheap Oil — Apollo [Alliance] and Beyond / Tools with a life of their own / New peak oil sites / Halliburton, BP and Russian Black Gold / Oil no longer the dressing for the ‘3,000 mile Caesar salad’ / Oil: the beginning of the end
Solutions and sustainability – Nov 6
Suburbia project: the experts reply /
Green washing: get your company to clean up its janitorial act /
Entrepreneurs hear that green is trendy at SF conference /
CSIRO Sustainability Network Newsletter /
Salon’s Climate warriors and heroes /
Interview with Seattle green architect Johnpaul Jones /
All the king’s media – the Web as counter-propaganda /
CSIRO goes for high tech and big impact
Estonia: The end of the Age of Oil will not be a disaster if we are prepared for it
We live in a period of transition. About ten generations ago the age of energy dawned with the burning of charcoal and the steam engines. Today we have reached the time before dusk falls.
Other Energy Headlines – 4 November, 2005
‘Devastating’ winter ahead, says UK chemical giant / US Gov. to announce energy measures within weeks / IEA warns of 50% oil price rise by 2030 / Alt.energy not in cards at ExxonMobil / Palm oil seen playing role in EU biofuels / Hydrogen researchers step on the gas [2] / Can hybrids do it?
Politics and Economics Headlines – 4 November, 2005
Indonesia’s inflation soars after fuel price hike / Bulgaria faces energy pinch / Amnesty: Nigeria must end army killings in oil delta / Energy prices push up IT salary adjustments / US car sales hit brakes after storms, discounts / Oil execs to be asked to justify profits / Passamaquoddy groups sue US Bureau of Indian Affairs over LNG project
Solutions and Sustainability Headlines – 3 November, 2005
Polyculture ‘modules’ for small farms, suburbia / Heavy metal bioremediation / A sustainable-ag champion gets plowed under at Iowa State / Bill Mollison interview / Los Angeles: trading the car for the train / Ocean aquaculture conference
Peak Oil Headlines – 3 November, 2005
Peak oil debate in Canada newspaper:
Energy policy or disaster / A tax on imported crude oil? / Pfeifer: Peak Oil in 2005? / Peak oil now in Dutch mainstream press / Morning rememberance: Richard E. Smalley
