Geopolitics – Sept 26
Moscow strengthens presence in U.S.’ backyard
US generals planning for resource wars
Pakistan’s Zardari Tries to Keep His Distance from US
Staff
Food & agriculture – Sept 26
Urban farmer’s work honored
UN to buy emergency food stocks from poorer farmers
Food Labels: Organic? Fair Trade? Certified Humane? What Does it All Mean?
Peak oil – Sept 26
Of pipelines and the future
Here comes $500 oil – Matt Simmons in Fortune Magazine
Will the price of oil put a brake on globalisation?
United States – Sept 25
States, provinces have plan to cut emissions
Gore urges civil disobedience to stop coal plants
Coal, a tough habit to kick
Water – Sept 25
Ban near on diverting water from Great Lakes
Peter Gleick: Deal with the water crisis now
Running dry
Deep Thought – Sept 25
Earth Democracy – notes on Vandana Shiva
The old future’s gone (audio)
Ordinary human poverty
Rx: Depression
As the global economy lurches from crisis to crisis, the word “depression” — taboo in polite economic company for decades — has begun to be whispered again. Most people seem to think that an economic depression would be an unmitigated disaster. Counterintuitive as it seems, though, it may just be the best thing that could happen to America at the dawn of the age of peak oil.
Peak Oil Review – Sept 25
A mid-week update including
– Oil and the financial crisis
– In the wake of the Hurricanes
Housing & urban design – Sept 24
The Conversation: How do we become less dependent?
Low-Income Housing: Another Crisis Looming?
Mitchell Joachim: Redesign Cities From Scratch
Peak oil, power & potatoes
The power of concentrated money – capital as we usually call it – is clearly enormous. Some things have to be done with collected resources if you want civilisation to continue, especially things to do with transport. But then there is the fact that if someone is doing it (using concentrated resources) and you are not, you will most likely be pushed out of the game.
Back from the future collapse
With his book “Reinventing Collapse”, Dmitry Orlov reports to us from a collapse that he has actually experienced with the fall of the Soviet Union. Russia’s past is our future and Orlov’s book is a time machine to there.
Writers discuss covering the peak oil story, in Sacramento
If you had been able to attend the first afternoon of the ASPO-USA conference in Sacramento yesterday, you could have listened to six writers, most of them working as print journalists today, sharing their insights as to how members of the media cover the peak oil story.
