Wealth angst – Jan 16
China: New wealth and its discontents
Advertisers: Your life is totally vile
Affluenza: Earn more, spend more, want more
My cure for affluenza (ecovillage)
The price of bling
Staff
Self-sufficiency – Jan 16
Bio-intensive mini-gardens – recipe for survival
Wealth and health from waste and worms
How to build a cold frame
Is energo-fascism in your future?
Energo-fascism will, in time, affect nearly every person on the planet. Either we will be compelled to participate in or finance foreign wars to secure vital supplies of energy…; or we will be at the mercy of those who control the energy spigot… ; or sooner or later we may find ourselves under constant state surveillance, lest we consume more than our allotted share of fuel or engage in illicit energy transactions. [excerpts]
Unified green field theory
Every green group, of every stripe, should be focused like a laser on energy and climate change. Policymakers should be hearing one voice, talking about one thing, from every side. It’s time for a coordinated push.
Dysfunction – Jan 15
Anywhere the eye can see, it’s likely to see an ad
Americans have personal bonds with cars
Is good weather bad for sustainable energy?
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 15
100-mile diet: local food strategies
Never too old to save the earth
Local living economies
“Who am I?” in a post-petroleum world
Climate – Jan 15
Nature on air travel and global warming
Connecting the global warming dots
EU eyes climate, energy in new China talks
WEF: global risks outpacing the ability to mitigate them
U.S. – Jan 15
Saudi Arabia’s oil? Responsibility trumps sovereign rights!
Officials covered up oil lease problems, IG says
Euro displaces dollar in bond markets
Has globalization passed its peak?
U.S.: ethanol – Jan 15
Ethanol debate: Kammen vs Patzek
New gov. envisions Iowa as the energy capital of the world
Ethanol boom to evaporate corn surplus
Corn rockets, triggers trading limit
Pig farmers, ethanol don’t mix
Peak oil – Jan 15
Kunstler: The cheap oil mirage
Managing the transition from peak oil
The URGE
Inflation and building big things
New book: The Battle For Barrels – Peak Oil Myths & World Oil Futures
Alternative finances
Now is the time to rediscover John Maynard Keynes’s revolutionary ideas for an international trade organisation and adapt them to rebalance the world’s economies in the 21st century.
Peak oil – Jan 14
ASPO’s Steve Andrews speaks in New Mexico
Does the peak oil theory just fall down?
Indirect impacts of peak oil and climate change
Mayor’s climate protection agreement compared to PO resolutions
