Renewables & efficiency – May 29
Why Obama Should Take Notes from Cuba on a Green Energy Revolution
Solar Carbon Payback
Resourceful Guy Builds Solar House, Solar Power, Solar Car
Staff
ODAC Newsletter – May 29
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
Food & agriculture – May 29
For Personal-Injury Lawyer, Michael Pollan’s Book Is Worth Fighting For
Offshore; Food, Inc.
Industrial Local?
A Day in the Life – Part 1
In June, we wake up at 5 am when the sun rises. It’s important to get our outside work done before the heat of the day. Since we can’t afford A/C, we try to take siestas, or at least not move much, from 11 to 3. The ceiling fans help, and we’ve found that our bodies are getting used to the absence of climate control. I’ve seen a lot of lovely sunrises in the past few years from getting up at the crack of dawn.
Peak oil notes – May 28
A weekly round-up including:
– Prices and production
– Warnings
– Detroit
One & two wheels – May 28
Goods by Bicycle in China
Not Just Present at Work, but Presentable
Vancouver engineer invents self-balancing unicycle
Transport – May 28
Getting Out From Behind the Wheel
Wishes, Hopes, Fantasies
Meet Veronica Moss, A.U.T.O. Lobbyist
Government insists on business as usual despite heavy losses at BA
Solutions & sustainability – May 28
The Powerdown Show: brilliant, and now available
A Job and No Mortgage for All in a Spanish Town
The Case for Working With Your Hands
The peak oil crisis: the electric car: part II
Unless we have an economic depression far worse than most currently believe is likely, the chances are good that within the next five years a combination of emissions restrictions and falling oil supplies is going to make gasoline too expensive for routine use in private automobiles.
To plan for emergency, or not? Heinberg and Hopkins debate
At the Transition Network conference, Richard Heinberg gave an online presentation looking at the concept of Emergency Planning for Communities … For a while now, Richard and I have been discussing the tension between longer term planning for resilience and the more immediate and pressing responses demanded by sudden and rapid change. It is still an ongoing discussion, but … What follows is the series of email exchanges we have had since late last year.
Food & agriculture – May 28
Window Farms: An experiment in urban agriculture
Many Summer Internships Are Going Organic
Washington State University cancels freshman reading of ‘Omnivore’s Dilemma’
Watermelons Tapped For Ethanol
Economics – May 27
Why Britain has to curb finance
Job Losses Push Safer Mortgages to Foreclosure
Map of Idle Container Ships
