Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff Uranium mine blamed for high Aboriginal cancer rate
Uranium a peril among the Navajos
£7bn deal to harness Sun’s nuclear power
Aus. Opposition leader says nuclear power key to election
Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump faces new hurdles
On Tuesday, climate scientist James Hansen said that the world has less than a decade to take decisive action on global warming or risk tipping the planet towards catastrophe. ..The world may have ten years, but Texas only has six months to stop TXU from turning our climate to toast.”
Buying Local Doesn’t Hurt the Developing World
Museums as Post Peak Oil education tools
The buildings of tomorrow
Housing bubble smack-down
The dark side of the looking glass
Private equity – the purest capitalism
The biggest bubble of all – derivatives Trading Soars to $370 Trillion
The Return of M3
So what do you do when you’re pretty sure that the end of the world as we know it is coming soon, but your girlfriend doesn’t believe you?
“We could actually lead a happier life if we took some of the luxury or unnecessarily or gratuitously excessive edges off our material lifestyle.”
Energy shock hits the upwardly mobile poor hardest
in Africa’s Guinea. Riots, blackouts cripple cities.
A hospital’s incubator shuts down.
Push for environment policy change in new House
Iraq: Yes, things can get worse
Send in the subpoenas: energy a ripe target
Why had I became an environmentalist in the first place? To find out I would have to go back to that other life, the one with no catchy slogans, no rousing mission statement, no words at all even, only pictures flickering in my mind.
American politicians continue to push the fantasy of energy independence, a world where ethanol made from corn (and, they hope, from switchgrass) will replace oil and American soldiers will never again need visit the Persian Gulf, except, perhaps, on vacation
More about the post-peak scenario presented in “Christmas Eve 2050,” the first of three snapshots of life in a deindustrial future.
Air conditioning and refrigeration are the most significant contributors to end-use household electricity use. Here’s some suggestions on how you can reduce your cooling costs not by a few percentage points, but by orders of magnitude.
