Park your car and walk to store, school, work
A new comprehensive study by Saint Louis University researchers that flags the top 10 features of activity-friendly communities is a blueprint for improving public health.
Year: 2006
Urban design – Nov 5
Our ailing communities: car-dependent suburbia is bad for your health /
Where will everybody live? /
Kunstler: Gawn south
Climate policy – Nov 5
It’s hard to explain, Tom, why we did so little to stop global warming /
Scientific news grim for UN talks on GW /
Thousands rally against GW in UK /
2 TV stations refuse to cover climate /
Might Bush shift course on the Kyoto?
N. America energy policy – Nov 5
Clinton stumps for Calif. prop. 87 /
American car buyers get a case of amnesia /
Canadian clips on global warming and energy
Latin America energy policy – Nov 5
Chavez threatens to halt oil to U.S. /
Foreign investors bow to Morales in Bolivia /
As wells dry up, Mexico could be forced to privatize oil
Are You Voting for the Terminator’s Terminals?
If you are a California voter, you might have heard about the big celebrity protests in Malibu a few weeks ago. Led by actor Pierce Brosnan,
everyone from Barbra Striesand to Sting showed up to protest a planned LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) terminal that BHP Billiton wants to build 14 miles
off the coast at Oxnard.
Food & agriculture – Nov 2
What if the Midwest stopped trying to feed the world and started focusing on itself?
Forecast for Australian grain production cut again /
‘Virtually no progress’ in alleviating world hunger: FAO
Powerdown and Permaculture – At the Cusp of Transition
Permaculture, as it has been reframed by David Holmgren, is nothing less than the design system for a post-peak society. But is the movement capable of influencing society as a whole? Or should we just head for the hills?
Climate policy – Nov 2
US Inspector Generals probe allegations that global warming findings were suppressed /
MIT survey: climate tops Americans’ environmental concerns /
UK Stern Report sells climate short /
You can’t do it all with mirrors /
Why we must ration the future /
2050 too late for climate change action: former U.S. adviser
Chinese interests in the Middle East – Nov 2
China’s policy in the Gulf region: from neglect to necessity /
Oil city to be established in Gwadar /
China ready to pay more for Iraqi oil field /
Iraq taps Chinese oil companies to double production
Peak oil – Nov 2
Tom Whipple: Virginia writes a plan /
Oil films reviewed by 4th Intl site/
New book “Energy War” by Stan Goff
Peak oil – Nov 2
Forecaster: Global oil output ‘will start to decline by 2015’ /
TOD: Peak Oil Aware NY Governor? /
ASPO-USA: support for Global Energy Flow modelling /
The oil crisis started 30 years ago /
Whatever happened to Peak Oil?
