Trends – April 3
Barbara Ehrenreich: How we learned to stop having fun
Projecting population, fertility and HIV/AIDS
In BC, life begins at 30
Staff
Geopolitics – Apr 3
Risks of rising oil nationalism
Puplava: The politics of energy
Venezuela signs oil deal with China
Water – Apr 3
Mike Davis: Denial in the desert
Drought means no palms for Palm Sunday
Asia’s river systems face collapse
Malaysia makes rainwater collection mandatory for big roofs
Intentional community pioneer Albert Bates on surviving peak oil
Bates’s new book delivers a concise summary of the problems of peak oil and climate change followed by chapter after chapter of ideas to prepare yourself and your family to live more self-sufficiently… I have not yet tried his recipe for grasshopper quesadillas.
Peak oil, public health, and vulnerable populations
The awareness of a future decline in world oil production needs to be incorporated at the local level in public health systems planning. Here in Oregon, Portland’s Peak Oil Task Force is the first in the nation to identify likely impacts from Peak Oil.
Peak oilers on the GAO report
Responses from Robert Rapier, Andrew Leonard (Salon), Lou Grinzo and James Kunstler.
Peak oil – April 2
Peak oil: Why smart folks disagree (#2)
Bakhtiari: End of peak oil’s modeling phase
Review of Crude by Sonia Shah
Urban & housing – Apr 2
Squatter communities as model intentional communities
Ten things wrong with sprawl
Bright green buildings & dark green buildings
Reflective scientist sees a red roof and he wants to paint it white
Climate – Apr 2
U.S. spies urged to assess global warming
Supreme court rules against Bush in global warming case
60 Minutes: The age of warming
TIME special on global warming survival
Solutions & sustainability – April 2
ELP plan: Economize, Localize & Produce
Chicks teach sustainable community
Peak Moment TV highlights localization
WorldChanging is making lists
CSIRO Sustainability Network newsletter
Lovins: US can cut oil imports to zero by 2040
Stories for sustainable future (Orlov on sailboats)
Mexico and the first peak oil mass migration
The issue of immigration and border security is already a thorny one, but it will likely become even more confused as oil depletion proceeds in Mexico.
Speaking out – April 1
Kos, Obama, Hillary – join StepItUp (April 14)
Hamburg complains!
Complaints Choirs worldwide
