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AFP China’s growth model, based on the West’s economic model with its massive appetite for resources and increasing environmental degradation is unsustainable and will have to change, a leading environmentalist said.
More than a dozen efficiency efforts are set for trims or elimination as the administration pushes long-term projects.
Lugar: energy more important than Al Qaeda / Chomsky: Why it’s over for America (energy & imperial overstretch) / Africa battles ‘oil curse’ / Greenspan to testify June 7 on oil and the economy / Matthew Modine: Tinseltown’s rainbow warrior / Robert Redford: Kicking the oil habit/ Iran’s territorial disputes with its Caspian sea neighbors
The idea of catabolic collapse is simple enough, and it’s best communicated through a metaphor. Imagine that, instead of the fate of civilizations, we’re discussing home ownership.
Two Studies Link Global Warming to Greater Power of Hurricanes /
The World’s Water Crises /
Canada Pays Environmentally for U.S. Oil Thirst /
Monbiot: The Building Inspectors Who Look the Other Way
A real-world island experiment /
A family of 4 — but no car /
Tending ‘Defiant Gardens’ during wartime /
Big Organic vs. local food /
Biodegradable plastics
Cleaner energy key to future, cheap fuel a thing of the past /
Be Prepared: Perpetual cheap fossil fuel a dangerous myth /
Venezuela’s oil model: Is production rising or falling?
Silicon supply could limit solar energy boom /
The nuclear wisdom of young Blair /
China bets big on coal-to-oil projects /
Oil shortages hit Iraq with onset of summer heat
David Holmgren on permaculture and oil peak / Julian Darley at the NYC conference / ISN Security Watch: The end of the ‘age of oil’ / PO will not help us in the climate change fight / Peak oil is ‘an opportunity’ / News from here, there…
Poison ivy getting meaner (with global warming) / Canada agrees to next step in Kyoto / USA Today series on global warming / The Greener Guys (U.S. business & global warming) / You control climate change – or do you? / Ecological handprints: population and the limits of possibility
Energy-hungry nations also most wasteful / Forget gas; we meed a plan to keep passenger trains rolling / Railroading Amtrak / Car culture in BC: Our toxic love affair /
High-rise residents big energy guzzlers / Computer server efficiency hot topic
Quest for energy alternatives heats up / Fill ‘er up with corn and politics / Solving our carbon addiction without choking growth
