Food & agriculture – Apr 14
Organic sites on food-safety bills (HR 875, etc.)
G8 warns of hunger threat to global stability
Walker’s World: New food crisis looms
Staff
United States & Canada – Apr 14
Friedman: (No) Drill, Baby, Drill
Political winds shift in favor of legalized pot
Natural gas production decline creates fiscal headache
Deep thought – Apr 13
BBC documentaries dissecting modernity
Mr. Soddy’s Ecological Economy
I Dream of GINI – Wealth (In)equality after Resource Depletion
UK & Europe – Apr 13
Archbishop makes credit crunch case for monastic lifestyle in Easter sermon
UK goes into ecological debt on Easter Sunday
Weak pound heaps food price inflation on poorest households
Mayor unveils plan to turn London into ‘electric car capital of Europe’
Housing & urban design – Apr 13
Developer shrugs off recession, plots all-solar Fla. city
Is America’s love affair with the “exburbs” over?
Sustainability a growing movement at colleges, universities across Canada
Renewables & biofuels – Apr 13
“Revolution on a Rooftop” author interviewed
Oil Giants Loath to Follow Obama’s Green Lead
Amid a sea of troubles, ethanol now has an antibiotics problem
Ethanol adds 0.5-0.8 points to U.S. food prices
Interview with Matt Simmons, Part 2
“Around the rest of the world, we’re slowing down every planned project that is supposed to be getting started, and a lot of things needed to complete ongoing projects are being put on hold.”
Formulating a future: the case for anti-modernism (part 1)
It is this that my readership has in common – anti-modernism, a fundamental skepticism that economic growth, more energy, more technology, more shiny things, minor economic social change and other incremental variations on the same basic themes can resolve the deeper problems.
Until all the evidence is in
We need to recognize the phrase “until all the evidence is in” for what it really is: 1) a stalling technique, 2) a reflection of the ignorance of the speaker about the limits of our knowledge or 3) a colloquialism signaling the desire to wait for more information.
Peak oil & supplies – April 12
“Let us be human” – a Christian response to peak oil
New essay by Mark Jaccard on peak oil
If you dig it: energy is driven by demand
US military energy consumption in 2008
Energy-spending cutbacks spark price-spike talk
IEA Cuts Oil Demand Forecast to Lowest in Five Years
Pathways to community collapse: can we intervene?
In the early stages of distress, appeals to the “common good” or “cooperative engagement” may be met warmly and enthusiastically by townspeople. However, there are predictable changes as hardship, deprivation and even violence escalates, which impacts on this spirit of altruism.
Malthus and vice
Malthus might have earned more respect for his Law of Population if he hadn’t proposed it just at the moment when human production first tapped into the coal seams and oil streams that fueled the industrial expansion. It is only today, when those resources have peaked, that we are revealed to be much more like the other animals than we thought…
