Transport – Sept 12
As commutes begin earlier, new daily routines emerge
Fear and loathing at the airport
Gas costs spark high-speed rail Interest
Staff
Climate science – Sept 12
Mediterranean’s rich marine life under threat
FAO warns climate change could be major threat to food security
Britain’s mosquito explosion
Climate – Sept 12
Can we fight terrorism by reducing CO2 emissions?
Lawmakers favor carbon caps, trading; economists prefer a tax
Federal officials get no guidance on climate change
Economist: developing nations to suffer most
Powerful storms and global warming
Energy and nation – Sept 12
Oil’s golden years stifled innovation in Norway
IEA sounds ‘wake-up call’ on energy savings
Shetland and Faroe Islands prepare for post oil
UK change in political climate
Zimbabwe: People scavenge while fatcats get fatter
Nature, terror and oil top US fear list
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 11
MIT discovers appropriate technology
Knitting for the Apocalypse
Free-lunch foragers
Green Acres (TIME discovers eco-villages)
Think longevity
Biofuels – Sept 11
OECD warns against biofuels subsidies
Mali’s farmers discover a weed’s potential power
Cultivating a crop of hope (switchgrass)
Brazil: ethanol divides agribusiness
Climate science – Sept 11
Warming may be hurting gray whales’ recovery
Warming is seen as wiping out most polar bears
As Brazil’s rain forest burns, planet heats up
What a lake says about climate change
Climate change and global disease
Global warming may pose threat to heart
Rate of global warming predicted 35 years ago
Housing & urban design – Sept 11
Developing a hotter L.A.
Exercisers stuck in unwalkable settings
America’s McMansion problem
Children – Sept 11
Lack of play hurting children’s mental health
Turning the ride to school into a walk
Is it normal to let your kids get eaten by a bear?
The power of voluntary actions
Dismissing the importance of small personal behavior choices in favor of a sole focus on policy changes is a big mistake. Small behaviors are important not only for the direct environmental impact they have, but because they often lead to more and more pro-environmental behaviors over time.
United Kingdom – Sept 10
Conservatives have opportunity to introduce a green agenda
Turn off the TV and join the Tory green revolution
Kunstler gets a letter from an employee in the British oil industry
New nuclear row as green groups pull out
Pipeline explosions – Sept 10
Rebels blow up pipelines in Mexico, disrupting service
Mexico: A nation-state dissolves? (Jeff Vail)
Tribes sabotage Kirkuk pipelines
