Economics – May 23
Martin Wolf: This crisis is a moment, but is it a defining one?
When did your county’s jobs disappear? An interactive map
Recession turns malls into ghost towns
Staff
Europe – May 23
Caroline Lucas: Painting a positive vision of a post-carbon world
Wales plans for energy self-sufficiency with renewables in 20 years
EuroElections 2009 : Party of European Socialists (PES)
Peak oil & supplies – May 23
Colin J. Campbell interview: “Time for solutions is running out”
Former CIBC chief economist Jeff Rubin: Peak-nik
Mexico oil exports plummet
United States – May 23
Regional climate pact’s lesson: avoid big giveaways to industry
Raising The CAFE standard will increase driving
Green camo: seeing through the military’s new environmentalism
Looking at ‘spoiled’ Americans through an energy lens
How To Boil A Frog (film review)
A lively film promoting activism via video that is in itself a sophisticated example of the medium. With a personal narrative from author/activist Jon Cooksey, this is a rapid fire account of five problems that are bringing the human race to the brink of disaster due to ecological deterioration of the planet.
Health & population – May 22
Strong opinions about obesity
David Attenborough: Our planet is overcrowded
Recession ‘entertainment’ may beget new baby boom
Food & agriculture – May 22
Can a city girl live off wild food for a week in Portland?
The lazy farmer (Australia)
Ecological economics and the food system
Slow Money on the farm
Humanity, good food & animal welfare
The sinking Titanic: interview with Michael C. Ruppert
Interview with investigative journalist and author Michael C. Ruppert about his new book A Presidential Energy Policy.
Energy solutions & glitches – May 21
The gospel of green (Hermannn Scheer)
Jeremy Revkin: ‘Distributed power’ to save Earth
Love affair with gadgets squeezing power supply
‘Alarming’ use of energy, materials in newer manufacturing processes
How to save energy: plug in a new gadget
Mr. Market gets it wrong again
Let me take a moment to explain why oil prices reflecting actual market conditions might be important to us. Regardless of whether we are in the Peak Oil Era — we probably are — in 2009, we would like to know at all times what the relative abundance of the Elixir of Life (with respect to demand for it) for Industrial Civilizations is.
Peak oil notes – May 21
A weekly round-up including:
– Prices and production
– Brazil turns to China
– Obama administration accord pushes MPG
Economics – May 21
Poor? Pay up
Ask Jeff Rubin
David Rosenberg: ‘I think people are still in denial’
