UK & Europe – Mar 20
UK road traffic rises 25% in 15 years
‘Miracle’ saved Balkans from blackout during gas crisis
Climate causes Switzerland and Italy to redraw border
Swiss direct democracy protects against modern world “change bias”
Staff
Food & agriculture – Mar 20
Organic price tags may be hard to swallow
Doomer Dinner Party – Challenge
How Might We Be Fed? Part Two
Housing & urban design – Mar 20
In Hard Times, Public Places are More Important Than Ever
Kunstler on South Africa
Robert Rapier’s Year Without a Car
Media & web – Mar 20
Clay Shirky: Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
Banned hyperlinks could cost you $11,000 a day
There is no bigger issue than net censorship
We need a bailout for newspapers
Newspaper cuts open door to more political trickery
Conflict – Mar 19
World faces ‘perfect storm’ of problems by 2030, chief scientist to warn
Klare: The Second Shockwave
Civil War in the United States?,br>
Movement – Mar 19
The Climate/Peak Oil Divide
Interview with Asher Miller and Tom Stokes
De la dépendance au pétrole à la résilience des communautés
The (re)birth of Frucool
Leading climate scientist: ‘democratic process isn’t working’
Scientists – Mar 19
Anthropologists as journalists
Scientists on the streets
Plan B: scientists get radical in bid to halt global warming ‘catastrophe’
Cooking with the Sun
The sun is getting stronger every day, and I’ve started cooking with a solar oven again. Friday I cooked up a pot of potatoes in my oven from the Solar Oven Society. Yesterday it was a black bean stew–there wasn’t quite enough heat from the day in the sun to cook the beans completely, but half an hour on low heat on the range finished their cooking. Today a pot of beets cooked in the sun.
Steven Chu’s energy miscalculations
I want to bring up some urgent concerns about the direction the Obama administration is taking regarding America’s oil dependence. We need to ask What’s the plan? Once we understand the strategy, we can then ask Is the plan good, is it realistic?
Genji and the printing press
Many discussions of preserving information for the deindustrial future focus on the internet and other high-tech options. A step or two down the technological ladder offers options that are much more likely to find their way from discussion into reality.
The peak oil crisis: government in the transition
Over the next 20 years we are almost certain to witness major changes in the functions performed by various levels of government and whether we like it or not, the share of our resources going to pay for these functions is going to increase – i.e. higher taxes. Although it is not yet generally recognized, this great transition has already begun.
Energy industries – Mar 19
Exxon vs. Obama
Shell dumps wind, solar and hydro power in favour of biofuels
Crude truth behind numbers that govern our lives
Free download of tar sands book
