Water & environment – Dec 9
China’s Water and Soil Too Far Gone to Support a Growing Economy?
In China’s Mining Region, Villagers Stand Up To Pollution
Sewers to Sinks
Greenwash: Are Coke’s green claims the real thing?
Staff
Peak oil – Dec 9
Infrastructure Spending, Peak Oil and the Green New Deal
Strahan: Why is the oil price plunging?
EU energy consensus – trending in the right direction
A Gift to Planet Earth and Humanity
Robert Hirsch and Kyle Saunders (Prof Goose) talks
Peak oil review – Dec 8
A weekly review including:
– Prices and production
– OPEC and Russia are hurting
– Investment continues to fall
– Detroit in the balance
– Briefs
United States – Dec 8
After Layoffs, Workers Stay at a Factory in Protest
Making a new New Deal: Sitdown Strike in Chicago
Can Obama Really Afford His Infrastructure Program?
Food & agriculture Dec 8
Carbon: The Biochar Solution
Going hungry in the 21st century
Seawater holds key to future food
The hidden cost of our growing taste for meat
Plan for tax on cow gas stinks, US farmers say
Climate & Environment – Dec 8
Long, detailed, impressive – but futile in the face of runaway climate change
Ancient skills ‘could reverse global warming’
George Monbiot meets … Yvo de Boer
Our Humpty-Dumpty economy
This is not just another recession. We are reeling from two entwined problems, “Bad Money” and “The Bottleneck” of ecological pressures
The singularity: The fantasy and its effect
An aura of inevitability surrounds the idea of technological progress. And, that aura implies meaningful progress for human society as well. But is that aura in reality merely a paralyzing agent that prevents careful examination of technology and its claims for the future?
Deep thought – Dec 6
Peak population and Generation X
Not just peak oil, but “peak hierarchy,” too?
Chris Martenson on the current financial crisis
United States – Dec 6
Lost: 1.9 million jobs
Can Obama keep energy promises?
CNN cuts entire science, tech team
Rail efficiencies
We must thoroughly analyze the efficiencies of our existing transportation modes, soberly review existing and practically-achievable alternatives, and then responsibly choose those transportation arrangements our heirs can afford in the future. This is not the time to shoot from the hip, “wish upon a star”, or print our money into hyperinflation!
Peak oil and energy – Dec 6
IEA WEO 2008 – Natural Gas Liquids (NGLs) to the rescue?
IEA WEO 2008: Long term prospects for coal production
Interview of Richard Heinberg by Dr. Helen Caldicott
Aleklett on Mercedes – Chrysler and peak oil
Peak oil still relevant? More than ever.
