Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
New Yorker: The Last Drop: Confronting the possibility of a global [water] catastrophe /
Atlantic current stopped for 10 days in 2004 /
Rasslin’ swamp gas (methane) /
The thirteenth tipping point /
Nine ‘laws’ of ecological bloodymindedness
Controlling carbon and CO2 emissions requires, at root, finding some other way to generate electricity, to power vehicles, and to heat spaces. Fortunately for the future of mankind, there is a plethora of well-developed technologies in existence just waiting for mankind to start using them on a vast scale. The big problem is getting past the inertia of previous ways of doing things.
Whether conventional oil production will peak in the next year, or the next decade or a decade or two later, is moot. But it will peak and, in policy terms, the timeframe is short…
The Government believes the more serious and more immediate problem is climate change, and that is why we as a nation need to actively reduce the greenhouse gas emissions produce.
NY Times on Bioneers /
Live from Pop!Tech: Live green or die /
Slow Food movement has global outreach /
Coming to a theater near you: carbon-neutral movie /
New book “Energy: use less, save more” /
Greening the planet, one backyard at a time
Now’s the time to brace yourself for major price hikes in food, as peak grains join the lineup of lifestyle-changing events along with peak oil and peak water.
TOD: Canadian oil sands production update /
Oil sands: Gargantuan destruction /
Coaxing oil from huge U.S. shale deposits /
Shell is going to the wall for oil
Big oil may have to get even bigger to survive /
BP-Shell merger back on the cards /
Desperation may be heating this oil rumour
“The Great Warming” – movie review /
Climate research center’s oversight up for bidding /
California: Schwarzenegger, Angelides both profess to lean green /
Scientists, American public disagree sharply over global warming /
New culprit in climate change? Try airlines
How climate change is revolutionizing economics /
The approaching storm: economists have seen it for years /
Fossil fools: OPEC, Australia and USA say global warming doesn’t exist /
OPEC says British climate change report “unfounded” /
UK Insurance Journal on the Stern Report
Why is a union of NGOs, Indigenous Peoples Organizations and farmers’ movements calling for the suspension of biofuel subsidies?
It is a testament to the power of money that Nicholas Stern’s report should have swung the argument for drastic action, even before anyone has finished reading it. He appears to have demonstrated what many of us suspected: that it would cost much less to prevent runaway climate change than to seek to live with it.
Christian Aid today broadly welcomed the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, but warned that its conclusions would still expose millions of poor people to an unacceptably high risk of disease, drought and famine.
