My Compact Year
About 5 months into the Compact, I dreamt that I was at Crate & Barrel buying lamps and furnishings I didn’t need. At which point I thought to myself, “Oh no, I’m going to have to confess my purchases to the Compact Group.”
Amanda Kovattana
U.S. – Jan 17
NYT: Energy time
Senate hearing: Changing energy world
Democrats drying up oil industry tax breaks
Latin America – Jan 17
Bolivia gambles on energy and wins – for now
Oil firms face woe in Venezuela and Honduras
Nigeria – Jan 17
65m barrels of crude oil missing
Nigerians groan as fuel scarcity bites harder
Climate science – Jan 17
Planting trees and global warming
Warming trend visible in the trees
Climate change linked to health problems
The warming of Greenland
Sweden’s tree line moving at fastest rate for 7,000 years
Immanentizing the Eschaton
Absent from most of the discussions of the motives of peak oil “doomers” is the role that old myths in new clothes play in today’s culture. Can we think about the future at all without trying to impose mythology on it?
Ethanol Q & A
We received so much e-mail about last week’s article on using corn to produce ethanol that I was actually humming the whiskey-drinking Georgia Tech fight song to myself.
The peak oil crisis: Congressional hearings – round #2
The heart of the hearings focused on the idea that 75 percent of the world’s oil reserves are now in the hands of national state-controlled oil companies and this percentage is expected to keep growing.
Food & agriculture – Jan 17
Monster bunnies For North Korea
Astyk: Agricultural efficiency?
Can organic farming save us from climate change?
Dysfunction – Jan 17
Spin the (water) bottle
UAE beats Americans’ environmental harm
Clean air or TV: Where will Asia find more energy?
‘Spaceship Earth’ sculpture collapses
Overwork costly to environment
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 17
‘Ethical pharmaceuticals’ could change world politics?
Unconsumption
What’s the key to bright green cities?
Yes! Building a just, sustainable compassionate world
New quest in British politics: public happiness
Father of energy efficiency to get Fermi Award
Transport – Jan 17
China: rebirth of the bicycle?
End of the road for the US gas guzzler
Aviation’s role in climate change causes storm
Public transportation saves $6,200 per household, 1.4 billion gallons of gas
