Renewables & efficiency – April 6
Study: low-carbon fuel standards are unlikely to reduce warming
Are you ready for the ‘ZigBee’ world?
Corn ethanol concerns spread to Oregon
Staff
Transport – April 6
Shrinking airlines park more planes in the desert
Italian students give up wheels for their own two feet
Too many cars, and they’re not on the road
The American cars Obama wants
Portland, Portland style: touring by bicycle
Media & web – April 6
US believers going green, hold media fast for Lent
Crawling the web to foretell ecosystem collapse
Grist launches new website in honor of 10th anniversary
A conversation with Gail-The-Actuary
“The idea of scaling back is a real difficulty for these growth-based medical institutions… and how do you deal with a bigger and bigger uninsured population? How do you provide preventive care [and] some level of basic care” in a post-peak oil world? These are, in my view, the kinds of questions reformers should be asking.”
Peak Oil Review – Apr 6
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Production and prices
-The Clean Energy & Security Act
-Cuba
-Detroit
-Briefs
Interview with Matt Simmons, Part 1
“My thinking: do your analysis first; second, check it again; third, don’t rely on a third party; then, if that’s what you conclude, go ahead and speak out with the courage of your convictions.”
Population – April 6
U.N. sees falling Middle East fertility rates
Chinese hunger for sons fuels boys’ abductions
US science advisor: Earth population ‘exceeds limits’
Peak oil – April 5
Bloomington Peak Oil Task Force
Changing of the guard in the Queensland Government (Andrew McNamara out)
Interview with chair of Canada’s “junior oil” association – a peak oiler
Nate Lewis: Where in the world will our energy come from?
Food & agriculture – April 5
American ingenuity in Haiti (composting toilets)
To urban hunter, next meal is scampering by
Small farms, big rules
Loggers try to adapt to greener economy
Economics – April 5
Did the oil price boom of 2008 cause crisis? (report from energy economist James Hamilton)
Cascio: Resilience economics – one model for a new world economy
A new world model including energy and climate change data (based on ‘Limits to Growth’)
Luis de Sousa at TOD: London G20 meeting – the last chance?
The unbearable lightness of information
This decade was the one that was supposed to usher in the era when bits and bytes would replace tons and barrels as the measure of what an economy does. The information economy would eclipse the economy of blast furnaces and railcars.
Collapse psychosis: navigating the madness
The psyches of empire’s citizens are ill-equipped to deal with variation from the system’s proscribed roles or functions. Empire, like a “good” parent, gives one everything one “needs” in return for production-until it doesn’t, and when it doesn’t, the citizen has no recourse emotionally because he/she has lived in psychological symbiosis with empire since birth.
