Cars – Jan 9
SUV growth grinds to a halt
Detroit auto show: where’s the green?
GM’s Volt recharges interest in electric cars
This guy gets 59mpg in a plain old Accord-beat that, punk.
Staff
Climate – Jan 9
Warming could spur weed “evolution explosion”
Richest fuel global warming – poorest suffer most
What Gore hasn’t told you about global warming
Transport – Jan 9
Carry on flying, says Blair – science will save the planet
Monbiot: open letter to the prime minister
Cities rediscover allure of streetcars
Bridging Peak Oil and Climate Change Activism
The problems of Climate Change and Peak Oil both result from societal dependence on fossil fuels. But just how the impacts of these two problems relate to one another, and how policies to address them should differ or overlap, are questions that have so far not been adequately discussed.
Yes, but…
Perhaps the most crucial argument to the peak oil debate–that there is a huge difference between how much of a resource is theoretically available on planet Earth and how rapidly we can extract it–is too difficult to explain the way we have been explaining it. Perhaps we need some new approaches for explaining this and other aspects of peak oil.
Biofuels – Jan 8
Minnesota poised to go green
NYT: Rise in ethanol raises concerns about corn as a food
Soybeans may grow scarce
Climate – Jan 8
Interview with Greenpeace director
Blizzards, reindeer, darkness: new Klondike is hottest place in Europe
Kunstler on The Warming
Environment – Jan 8
Life on Mars? We may have found it – and killed it
Grim prognosis for Earth
How quickly are animals and plants disappearing, and does it matter?
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 8
10 books on solutions for energy descent
Google hires William McDonough to design green center
Online activism 2.0: movement building
Energy consumption – Jan 8
Clean air vs. TV in poor India villages
Japan:
the land of rising conservation
Taking control of electric bill, hour by hour
E. Europe: Open windows in winter
Colorado’s electricity infrastructure needs jump-start
Peak oil – Jan 8
Slick new Peak Oil Primer from ASPO-Spain
Heinberg: bridging peak oil and climate change activism
Kunstler: A wake-up call in the shadow of oil scarcity
Kunstler foreshadowed
Reason: political peak oil
Food & agriculture – Jan 8
World may be facing highest grain prices in history
Era of cheap world food ending
Hard to swallow (food worse than cars for climate?)
An inconvenient truth: we are eating our planet to death
PAY DIRT: Fighting global warming with a ‘dirty’ strategy
