Geopolitical – Oct 24
Claiming Antarctica: oil, water and environmental risks
Chile to lay claim to piece of Antarctica
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO):
“NATO of the East”
Staff
Media & persuasion – Oct 24
Science’s worst enemy: corporate funding
The social web ain’t rocket science
Calendar of environmental conferences and events
Global energy – Oct 24
Panel urges global shift on sources of energy
The Energy Solution: Do Something
Nobel conference lectures on energy now online
Climate – Oct 24
Carbon output rising faster than forecast
At the Poles, melting occurring at alarming rate
GAO: Agencies should share climate change data
United Kingdom – Oct 24
While Germany races to deliver renewable energy, Britain stumbles
Energy: the fundamental unseriousness of Gordon Brown
Labour’s plan to abandon renewable energy targets
It’s rip-off Britain, even when it comes to climate change
Food & agriculture – Oct 24
Rising prices may herald the first global food shortage since the 1970s
Grain price hikes set to continue
Wheat rises for 4th day as importers seek supplies
Pricier grain costs Africans dear
Investor Jim Rogers shifts assets to Yuan and agriculture
China turns to dry land rice as water crisis looms
Australian drought pushes up price of beer
The age of salvage societies
The Archdruid Report‘s exploration of possible societies of the deindustrial future moves from the scarcity industrialism of the near future to the salvage societies further out, when the natural resources that power industrialism have been exhausted but the embodied energy in the material legacies of the industrial world become a major resource.
Peak oil – Oct 24
Skrewbowski interview: 1200 days to peak oil
Case Western study: oil experts agree on 2010 peak oil
Chevron CTO says peak oil won’t be a disaster
Posters of peak oil future now online from Dynamic Cities
Report: ‘World at peak oil output’
Peak oil or peak emissions?
This Week in Petroleum
The peak oil crisis: A message from Houston
A keen observer of the American scene pointed out that most literate Americans are aware that we have some sort of energy problem. The problem is that most have no concept as to how soon the transformation will start and how much their lives are going to change.
Climate policy – Oct 23
Climate change is a war that we must fight (Australia)
New Zealand aims to be world’s first carbon neutral nation
Swiss vote goes green with climate change
Green tech – Oct 23
What will turn the tide towards sustainability?
Labor of Lovins
Morgan Stanley sees $1 trillion green mkt by 2030
Hard times – Oct 23
Will increased income and wealth disparity lead to generational class war?
Why is Vancouver eating its young?
The heat or eat dilemma
Living paycheck to paycheck gets harder
