Transport – Nov 5
Elizabeth Kolbert: Does the “car of the future” have a future?
Here comes the £1,200 car
The one thing airlines cannot do without
Staff
Food & agriculture – Nov 5
Michael Pollan on the farm bill
Church urges supermarkets to give farmers a fairer deal
Sharon Astyk: Change your diet
Food and community in Katine (Uganda)
Commodity, fuel costs boost grocery prices
Climate policy – Nov 5
Climate wars threaten billions
Think tank: Climate affects security
Climate change: we have the power
NY Times environmental reporter Revkin now a-blog
NBC’s rainbow turning green
Climate & water – Nov 5
Tibetans wake up to nosebleeds in super-dry autumn (‘heating up faster than anywhere else’)
Dry weather forcing bobcats into Las Vegas
Farewell to “flush and forget”
Acidified waters could prompt mass shellfish dissolution
Out West, a falling lake lowers all boats
With U.S. water worries, eyes are on the Great Lakes
Waste and re-use – Nov 5
Bottled water’s environmental backlash
Rain barrels and rain runoff
Buddhist dumpster diving
The plastic fantastic recycling trap
Cities – Nov 5
Mayors, looking to cities’ future, are told it must be colored green
U.S. mayors find it’s not easy to be green
Bloomberg and Clinton at mayors conference
Ken Livingstone on climate change
Review: Renewable City
United States – Nov 5
Clinton’s climate and energy plan: strengths and weaknesses
The green gap
Bingaman seeks response to oil royalty decision ($60 billion for oil companies)
Preparedness for what? Comparing terrorism and peak oil
Whereas terrorism poses no fundamental threat to the functioning of our society, energy decline does because it can degrade non-medical and institutional determinants of health such as education, employment, housing, nutrition, transportation, and sanitation.
Geopolitics – Nov 4
The perils of petrocracy
Iran shuns greenback deals
William Clark updates Petrodollar Warfare (video)
Venezuela won’t seek partners for former Exxon, Conoco fields
Big melt meets big empty: Rethinking the implications of climate change and peak oil
The central question facing us is not whether the world will move away from fossil fuels, but how. The primary dispute will be between those who look for short-term solutions to energy supply shocks … and policy advocates with a long-range plan for dealing effectively and peacefully with climate change, adaptation to scarcity, and global inequity.
Let’s play “Peak Oil Shock Me”
An increasingly popular parlor game among peak oil activists is to see who can serve up the most shocking morsel of peak oil news at any one sitting. There are now plenty of morsels to choose from on an almost daily basis.
NATO and energy security
Concerns about energy security have made their way to the agenda of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). But to ensure energy security we are now risking global security.
