Looking beyond – May 7
NYT: The silver lining to impending doom
Heinberg: Talking ourselves to extinction
Peak oil, carrying capacity and overshoot
The sprirituality of collapse
Staff
Climate – not in the vanguard
Climate report ignored by Chinese media
Bjorn Lomborg gets confused about warming
Leftist Cockburn – climate skeptic
Climate – May 6
World ‘must act to avoid devastating global warming’
Panel reaches consensus on need to reduce emissions
Desmond Tutu: This fatal complacency
Paradox of China’s emissions
Solutions & sustainability – May 6
The hippies were right!
Accidental sustainability and why we can’t sustain it
Ooh! Shiny!
WorldChanging in April
The transformation of manufacturing in the 21st century
Food & agriculture – May 6
seedPOD: A “Wikiseedia” for the future of food and farming
Honeybee die-off threatens food supply
Farming will make or break the food chain
Renewables – May 6
Power station harnesses Sun’s rays
Wind farms may not lower air pollution
Libertarian Stossel:
Sacrificing our children to the ‘Corn God’
The book that oil companies don’t want you to know about: Alcohol Can Be A Gas
Oil producers – May 6
Kuwait oil reserves secret for national security
Have the Kurds abandoned hope of a stable Iraq?
How much Iraqi crude is being stolen?
The other oil-rich gulf
Gas and oil – May 6
Is U.S. natural gas headed toward excess supply?
Where gasoline is cheap
Interview with Lisa Margonelli, author of Oil On the Brain
Peak oil – May 6
The call on OPEC?
Failing the energy IQ test
Exxon Mobil says PO unlikely in next 25 years
OPEC’s dilemma
Global oil production peaking: What happens now?
Peak Oil and U.S. Representative Vernon Ehlers
Rep. Ehlers, formerly a nuclear physicist, is one of only three scientists in Congress. In response to a question at a town hall meeting, he said: “[Peak oil] is just a tough sell. Sometimes people don’t want to believe what they don’t like, and that’s the problem here. There is simply not an infinite amount of oil.”
Peak opportunity
What has a chance of being far more effective [than an environmentalist approach] is to focus on what fundamentally will motivate all of us: personal well-being and survival.
Vancouver Sun – Green for a day under guest editor Suzuki
Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki was guest editor of the Vancouver Sun for its Saturday, May 5 edition – “definitely a step towards a positive green transformation.”
