Politics and Economics – Oct 9
Britons personal debt runs out of control
The Chinese bank puzzle
How America grows: A tale of two cities
Infrastructure vulnerable to hacker attacks
Jamaican government admits received $31 million from oil firm
Year: 2006
Peak Oil and Healthcare Relocalisation
Dr Paul Roth explores some of the general principles that might combine to form a sustainable and ethical health care system.
Today is World Overshoot Day
The day that we begin living beyond our ecological means is creeping ever earlier in the year as human consumption grows.
Climate – Oct 9
Extreme droughts will spread, warn forecasters
Tasmania: dry farms
Green thinking: Planet Earth… but not as we know it
Hansen: Global temperature change
Audio: Rasmus Benestad talks climate change
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 9
Downtown Revitalization Rules
China releases green accounting study
Faith, Hope, and Clarity: God & the Environment
Video: Stick a Yellow Ribbon up Your SUV
Peak Oil – Oct 9
Raymond James: even the Saudis may be close to hitting peak production
Ruppert: The bumpy plateau – Markets react to peak oil
Minister: Peak oil and global warming
64 squares and a grain of sand
Peak Oil: Yet another ‘inconvenient truth’
Crude Assumptions – The State of the Peak Oil Debate
Headlines, we have headlines
Gas price – Oct 8
Oil prices manipulated for elections? Bush says yes
Conspiracy Theories abound as oil prices fluctuate
Bush’s approval rating and the price of gas
Goldman Sachs index was factor in gas price drop
Gas Pump Politics
Nuclear – Oct 8
Helen Caldicott links nuclear power to global warming
UK: Greenpeace challenges ‘legally flawed’ energy review
Australia: BHP says enriching uranium locally ‘unviable’
Environment – Oct 8
Wake up to IT’s energy crisis
Africa: Europe’s new dumping ground
Indonesian schools shut for haze
Detroit’s lack of trees creates environmental crisis
Energy and Californian land use planning
The California Legislature must revise the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), Environmental Impact Report (EIR) to include a specific section on energy, including project energy needs by resource type.
Peak Oil – Oct 5
It starts to look like a plateau
Yet another ‘inconvenient truth’
HK Kunstler – Making Other Arrangements
David Korten: The Great Turning
Communities, Refuges, and Refuge-Communities
How do our metaphors for Peak Oil direct our thought about its severity? This essay examines this question and others that relate to Peak Oil preparations and the debate within the peaknik community about how bad it might get.
