The peak oil crisis: Preparing for depletion
There are two areas of energy consumption we, as individuals, can do something about: transportation and buildings.
Tom Whipple
Bush’s ‘new climate strategy’
Today’s headlines are full of the news that President Bush is “unveiling a new climate strategy.” If your immediate reaction is cynicism, well … looks like you learned something over the last seven years. Let’s look a little closer.
Solutions & sustainability – May 31
Local government responses to peak oil
Studies: If it feels good to be good, it might be only natural
Vatican goes green with solar roofs
Chinese activist praises Oregon’s green ways
Economist Tom Greco on reinventing money
‘Deep Economy’: ideas for a better world
Manufactured landscapes
Transport – May 31
A call to lower the speed limit to 55
Multi-billion rail plans in UK aimed at tackling congestion
Ryanair: climate campaigners hitting sales
Coal – May 31
Lawmakers push for big subsidies for coal process
Energy efficiency vs. liquefied coal
Gas prices – May 31
Price-fixing: A numbers game that’s hard to win
Record gas prices amidst hyperconsumption and slaughter
Playing politics at the pump
Energy policy – May 31
Scotland: It’s time to give us the power to decide on energy
Australia: Huge power price rises loom
Sen. Bingaman on energy policy (interview)
Nuclear greenwashing
On the likelihood of peak oil
Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) claims that the oil supply will continue to grow as it has in the past. Those studying the peak oil hypothesis, so-called peakists, are not so confident that the future will resemble the past. Peakists believe that CERA is ignoring the warning signs of peak oil.
The American Planning Association talks sustainability
As green building and alternative energy enjoy a new surge of interest and investment, planners have an important role to play in making sustainability possible in cities.
Peak oil – May 30
CNN special: We were warned: Out of oil
ODAC News
Sharon Astyk: Feels like I’m dying
peak oil in 600 words or less
Deep thinking – May 30
Interview with Thomas Homer-Dixon
The hard facts about parabolic spikes
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Because we’re worth it
Toxic Culture USA
John Michael Greer: Future fiction
Strange – May 30
Eating radiation: A new form of energy? (MIT)
Florida man invents machine to turn water into fire
