Global – Jan 31
Governments across Europe tremble as angry people take to the streets
Arctic’s thaw brings security risks for NATO
Gulf’s green claims awash in a desert of deception
Staff
Peak Moment 128: Finding Opportunity in Peak Oil
Molly Brown sees Peak Oil as both a challenge and an invitation to create a better world. After awakening to Peak Oil, she explored her own responses — inner attitude and outer action. Personal changes include creating a vegie garden and bicycling. Noting that individual survivalist mentality is insufficient (“we are all interconnected”), she helped form a local group to awaken and prepare her community.
Peak Moment 127: Middle Class Lifeboat — Careers and Life Choices for Staying Afloat
Paul and Sarah Edwards are authors of a timely book Middle-Class Lifeboat: Careers and Life Choices for Navigating a Changing Economy. In a world of decreasing resources, they ask, how do we financially support ourselves while moving towards sustainable lives?
Peak Moment 126: A School Garden Brings Learning to Life
Come along on a tour with team-teachers Glenda Berliner and Jeralyn Wilson, as they show us their elementary school garden bearing many fruits. It’s an important part of the curriculum: children make mason bee boxes, grow colonial medicinal plants, learn of other cultures, and put science to work.
The climate freeloaders: emerging nations need to act
Key developing countries have long been exempt from efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Now, as global climate talks move forward, that policy must change.
ODAC Newsletter – 30 Jan
A weekly round-up from a UK perspective.
Peak oil and supplies – Jan 30
Roubini on peak oil
Canadian farm energy study acknowledges peak oil
Oil Rises, Oil Falls – The History of Oil Meets the Perfect Energy Trifecta
Global energy investment hit by financial crisis
Deflation, Reflation and Our Oil Future
Economic fallout – Jan 30
The Human Costs of the Economic Crisis
Hundreds of thousands protest in France
Economic woes at heart of French strike
Efficient market hypothesis is dead – for now
Depression Or Recovery — What’s In the Cards?
Housing & urban design – Jan 30
A City Made of Waste
Independence vs Splendid Isolation
EntropyPawsed Uses “A Pattern Language”
Renewables & efficiency – Jan 30
Oslo to run buses powered by biomethane from human sewage
ITER: Flagship fusion reactor could cost twice as much as budgeted
Renewable energy in New Zealand (video)
Frugal is the new black
This new year brought another new feeling for me too, of having come to the end of a long string of questions. I’d spent so many years in hot pursuit of answers that I was suddenly at a standstill looking around wondering where I was headed or had I, in fact, arrived?
Oil production peaked in July 2008
There are numerous indications that world oil production peaked in July 2008. So says Uppsala Professor of Physics Kjell Aleklett. According to him, the theory that oil production is on a downward path is gaining more and more supporters.
