Geopolitics – Apr 15
Getting tough with the petro-elites
Global security: a vision for change
The Limitations and Necessity of Naval Power
Bush family does a Moon dance
Staff
The Last Oil Shock – book review
After years of work on peak oil, it is rare for me to find a book written for the general public that can teach me something I didn’t know before. But with David Strahan’s book, The Last Oil Shock, it was a different matter.
The power of green
A long and heartfelt appeal by the NY Times columnist for leadership at all levels of government for a reduction in use of fossil fuels in order to prevent climate disaster and political authoritarianism. (Excerpts)
Is sustainability a drag?
Only when others see with their own eyes that those seeking sustainability are having enjoyable lives will the switch seem worth making. Just one shot of genuine cheerfulness, humor and even exuberance goes much further than a year’s worth of pious sermons.
Climate – Apr 15
London, Tokyo submerged by rising seas- in “Second Life”
Planting right trees could combat warming
Arctic meltdown creates hot policy issues
Taking the climate fight to Megawatt Valley
‘Hypocritical’ NSW Govt expanding coal export facilities
Dysfunction – Apr 15
The new suburban poverty
Death in cyburbia
Unprovoked beatings of homeless soaring
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 15
A manifesto for sustainability in design
PO/climate fiction: A Friend of the Earth
She used to get mad…now she’s getting even: Katharine Hamnett and ethical fashion
Citified suburbs becoming model for Bay Area
North America – Apr 15
What Cheney energy task force talked about
Global warming called U.S. security threat
Canada’s Dion: Put industry on a carbon diet
Peak oil – Apr 15
Peak oil and Senegal
Crude Awakening Tues on Sundance Channel
Oil production threat in Nigeria triggering a global meltdown?
Duelling books on peak oil: Strahan vs Clarke
Nate Hagens of The Oil Drum
Kunstler on Friedman: Blowing green smoke
Decline & fall of practically everything
Peak Oil – Apr 14
Jeremy Gilbert’s Comments on TOD Saudi Analysis
Peak oil: Get ready for it, says GAO
Soil Association starts nationwide meetings
When the lights go out
What GAO Peak Oil report?
An important piece of internationally significant news drops down through the crack
Peak Soil: Why cellulosic ethanol, biofuels are unsustainable and a threat to America
Biofuels are not sustainable or renewable. Why would we destroy our topsoil, increase global warming, deplete and pollute groundwater, destroy fisheries, and use more energy than what’s gained to make ethanol?
(Detailed analysis)
