Renewables & efficiency Feb 6
Dark Days for Green Energy
Wyoming wind power
Mark Rodgers talks about the Cape wind off-shore wind project
Staff
Confusion in the oil patch
A standard story is making the rounds which goes like this: low prices and lack of investment will impair future oil production capacity. When the global economy rebounds, which could happen as early as 2010, oil prices will shoot up again as demand once again outstrips available supply.
A deindustrial reading list
After fielding multiple requests for a reading list on the end of the industrial age, the Archdruid suggests ten books that might just cast a necessary light on the crisis of our time.
Opportunity knocks when it comes to a local food economy
Community-based agriculture has the potential for creating jobs, developing small business entrepreneurship and keeping precious dollars in the community.
Climate & environment – Feb 5
California farms, vineyards in peril from warming, U.S. energy secretary warns
Forecast: doomed! Stephan Faris’s book is a grim reality check
It’s Getting Wicked
Housing & urban design – Feb 5
More families move in together during housing crisis
NYT: Saving the Suburbs, Part 2
Resource: Green Urbanism Down Under
Food & agriculture – Feb 5
Slow food: Have we lost our appetite?
Our love-hate relationship with the Red Cedar tree
Program helps future farmers find land
Peak Oil Notes – Feb 5
A mid-week update on peak oil, including:
– Prices and production
– Growing troubles in Asia
The peak oil crisis: leadership
Many voters clearly are beginning to sense there is some kind of unprecedented problem out there, even it is thought of as melting poles and reliance on foreign oil. While they may not understand all the forces that are at play, soaring unemployment, falling home values and collapsing equity markets are getting their attention.
False hope or hardship? Comments on Pope and McKibben essays
Carl Pope, head of the Sierra Club, in a January 22, 2009 article entitled “Moving the U.S. off Carbon with Less Pain, More Gain” takes issue with Bill McKibben’s November 5, 2008 article entitled “President Obama’s Big Climate Challenge.” McKibben identifies the scale and risk of the challenge noting it will be unpopular and could damage Obama’s political future.
Rebuilding America – Feb 4
Can We Transform the Auto-Industrial Society?
Kunstler’s Road Trip
What Obama Must Do On the Road to Copenhagen
Transport – Feb 4
Auto sales are worst in 26 years
The high cost of bad driving habits
The Challenge of Sustainable Transportation: Prospects for Switzerland and the U.S
