Australia: Oil Rise- Imperative Both Parties Release their Transport Policies
Today’s oil rise to back over US$51 per barrel is a critical factor as Australia is depleting its reserves faster than many other countries.
Society
Ecotopia 2005
Ernest Callenbach, the author of Ecotopia, holds forth 30 years later on the difficulties of creating a utopia in the era of George Bush
Imperial Entropy: Collapse of the American Empire
It is quite ironic: only a decade or so after the idea of the United States as an imperial power came to be accepted by both right and left, and people were actually able to talk openly about an American empire, it is showing multiple signs of its inability to continue.
Selling the world on a less dependent lifestyle
An electric car in the driveway, solar panels on the roof, a clothes line in the back yard and a bicycle for every family member. Could this be the definition of cool in the 21st century?
Kill me and oil stops: Chavez
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has threatened to suspend oil exports to the US if someone tries to assassinate him, saying US President George W. Bush would be to blame.
Buying time? No, they’re spending it
A report on the initial success of a community currency in Benton County, Oregon.
Crush that was waiting to happen
The riot at the opening of a north London branch of Ikea last week may have shown human behaviour at its most unappealing and uncivilised, but not at its most unpredictable.
The Greening of Evangelicals
There is growing evidence — in polling and in public statements of church leaders — that evangelicals are beginning to go for the green. Despite wariness toward mainstream environmental groups, a growing number of evangelicals view stewardship of the environment as a responsibility mandated by God in the Bible.
Community Service creating prototype housing concept
Community Service, Inc., has produced a proposal for a prototype housing development in response to Peak Oil that promotes energy-efficient building techniques, a sense of community, economic sustainability and local food production.
Ex-UN chief warns of water wars
Competition for water resources could provoke wars in Africa and the Middle East, Boutros Boutros Ghali has said.
Venezuelan news roundup
Venezuelan state-run oil company considers buying Shell’s Argentinian assets, while off-loading refining operations in the US. Meanwhile President Chávez is building alliances with China and Iran.
IAC Statement: The Election in Iraq
A counterpoint to the corporate media’s unquestioning praise, this article portrays the Iraqi election as a PR effort by U.S. occupiers.
