Transport – Sept 27
A busy NYC street makes room for bikes
Dutch government takes a stand- against cars, for bikes
Fifteen years of Critical Mass
Folds-mobile
Taking transit: the most effective route to cutting carbon
Staff
ASPO 06 Have we reached the tipping point?
Report on the ASPO 06 Conference in Cork, Ireland. Speakers at the September conference indicate that we may have reached the psychological tipping point – when Peak Oil enters the general consciousness.
China – Sept 27
Beneath booming cities, China’s future is drying up
China’s crude oil imports climb 18.7% in August on year
Bund blackout sends powerful signal: save energy or face blackout
China warns of catastrophe from Three Gorges dam
Energy industries – Sept 27
Inspector finds broad failures in Interior Department’s oil program
Canada’s oil nationalism
Mountain-top removal coal mining
Health & happiness – Sept 27
Hurricane Katrina exacts another toll: enduring depression
Interview with green pediatrician Alan Greene
He’s happier, she’s less so
Waste – Sept 27
From Scotland to the Channel Islands the cry goes up: ‘Banish the plastic bag’
Making sewage water good to drink
Population – Sept 27
Falling German birthrate dispels baby miracle myth
CNN:
Overpopulation could be people, planet problem
Climate – Sept 27
Sharon Astyk: How fast is global warming happening?
The climate peril that insurers see
Banks urge US to adopt emissions trading
World leaders press US to act on climate change
Diplomats accuse Bush of attempting to derail UN climate conference
Geopolitics – Sept 27
Dilip Hiro: It’s the oil, stupid (Iraq)
Bolivia’s Evo to UN: “Let’s respect our Mother Earth”
An international court to try ecological crimes?
Iran gets over 70pc oil income in non-US currencies
Deep thought – Sept 27
Quantifying American overextension
UN: 35 years to half-extinction
Mundane science fiction (what if there is no quick and easy escape route?)
Peak oil – Sept 27
To Grandmother’s house we go: peak oil is here
ASPO 6: Ireland’s Eamon Ryan
Shell Oil’s Hofmeister dismisses peak oil
ODAC News
The peak oil crisis: Has the media become the message?
With every passing month, evidence peak world oil production has either passed or is getting very close becomes stronger. Unfortunately, public and congressional recognition of this situation remains virtually zero.
