Geopolitics and oil – Sept 3
U.S. News & World Report: The energy emergency
Iraq, oil, law and order (news round-up)
Staff
Pioneers – Sept 3
Angelo Pelligrini: A man of the earth reaps the good life (local food pioneer)
Dr. Paul MacCready, giant of efficient mobility technologies, passes (1925-2007)
Liberal Democrats aim for a carbon-neutral, non-nuclear Britain
Richard Hawkins on alternative energy technologies
A letter to President Bush regarding “The Surgeâ€
Dear President Bush,
Now is the time to shift the decision for our dilemma in Iraq to the American people. Allow the American people to choose between 1) a military draft which would be required for a real “Surge to Victory” or 2) a “War on Oil Addiction.”
Peak everything
Introduction to Heinberg’s new book Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines. (Excerpts)
Climate – Sept 2
Greek forest fires could be CO2 threat
Climate change brings ticks ever closer
Al Gore, James Hansen, and civil disobedience
NASA scientists challenge security rules- claim agency may be trying to silence them about global warming
Food & agriculture – Sept 2
The Nation on the Hundred-Mile Diet
Global food crisis looms as climate change and population growth strip fertile land
Climate change and N. America farms to be studied
Food prices on rise – Sept 2
Food prices set to surge 50% within five years
Britons hungry for organic fare, but prices up
Yemeni food price protests turn violent
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 2
Homespun living Pasadena family gets basics from own efforts
The green faith effect
Pope to youth: Save planet ‘before it is too late’
Peak oil – Sept 2
No holiday for nation’s 24/7 ‘energy slaves’
John Hockenberry searches for peak oil awareness
TOD:Canada energy news
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single e-bike
Electric bicycles also known as E-Bikes are becoming more and more common in Chinese cities; they represent wealth, a status symbol for the middle class.
Oil production – Sept 3
Iraq far from U.S. goals for energy
Deep sea drilling in the Gulf is chancy, but has big payoff
Denmark, Texas swap their wind and oil knowledge
Home grown apples can save the planet…
An oil crisis is coming, to add to our climate change woes. And the only practical solution is in our own back yards.
