A revolutionary report on the future of oil
The IEA Medium Term Report is refreshingly open and balanced in its approach. It is a further nail in the coffin for irresponsibly optimistic future oil production scenarios.
Michael Lardelli
Peak oil – July 29
Africa’s power crisis
Buying shotgun shells will put a bigger hole in your wallet
Trinidad & Tobago: Peak oil- expensive food
Building circles of community: “Lone Rangers” cannot survive collapse
ODAC News- 29 July
The green consumer – July 28
Monbiot: Ethical shopping is just another way of showing how rich you are
Yes, we can shop our way to a cleaner Earth
Open season on ethical consumers?
Can ‘green chic’ save the planet?
Pressure builds to ban plastic bags
Turning the tide against bottled water
Climate – July 28
Action at Heathrow airport- catch-all protest injunction could bar millions
NASA’s James Hansen on Old King Coal
Climate change escalates Darfur crisis
Hansen: Huge sea level rises are coming – unless we act now
Forest Service offers carbon offsets
Environment – July 28
Humans appropriate 24% of Earth’s productivity
Quantifying and mapping the human appropriation
Our share of the planetary pie
China cancels environmental report
Solutions & sustainability – July 28
They might look like hobbits’ dwellings…
Radical Finns persevere off BC coast
Everyday living – unplugged
Juicing down for global warming
Deep thought – July 28
Review: The Upside of Down
Alex Steffen: The world with us
Researchers say giving leads to a healthier, happier life
A federal energy policy: can it happen here?
Now is not the time to continue subsidizing every form of energy that can be produced in the United States, as the current Congress seems intent on doing.
Peak oil – July 28
David Strahan on the mainstreaming of peak oil (GPM interview)
Oil profits show signs of aging
The most dangerous metaphor: Moore’s Law
Oil & geopolitics – July 28
Russia leads race for North Pole oil
Did guerrillas strike at the heart of Mexico’s oil industry? Or maybe not?
Analysis: Oil part of large Iraq conundrum
Biofuels – July 27
The unintended consequences of the ethanol quick fix
Struggles between Big Oil, ethanol industry
A dark side to the ethanol boom?
Food & agriculture – July 27
Huge U.S. farm bill offers more of same for agribusiness
Oregon studies high failure rate of farmer’s markets
CSM on Community Supported Agriculture
Fermenting revolution (beer)
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