Air travel – May 6
Strahan: How do you solve a problem like jet fuel?
Monbiot: Consider the airship
Staff
Innovation – May 6
When homes have ‘envirodashboards’
Tech CEO Council’s Mehlman: IT efficiency
Infrastructure to encourage survival technologies
Economics – May 6
Buffet and Munger on peak oil, coal, biofuels, mass transit
Herman Daly: Towards a steady-state economy
Yes, Virginia, this is a recession
U.S. gas tax – May 6
No gas tax needed, prices will rise
Atrios: Gas tax and being at capacity
Oil prices and leadership deficits
United States – May 6
Clinton: OPEC ‘can no longer be a cartel’
Americans try praying at the pump
Obama energy adviser on climate, coal, transportation
Prices & supplies – May 6
Oil sets new record above $120 a barrel
WSJ: Tracking Saudi oil from space
Raymond James: More crude price rises loom
Simmons: $100 trillion needed to rebuild energy infrastructure
Turkish Weekly: Demand is slowing but…
Urban design – May 6
WaPo: Fighting global warming block by block
City of Swiss-style hill villages envisioned for Vancouver
Bellingham planning for PO
Are livable cities just a dream?
Survival – May 6
BBC: Do you need to stock up the bunker?
Natural born survivors
Why are the mean girls picking on World Made By Hand?
Peak oil – May 6
Tim O’Reilly: Fermi’s Paradox and the end of cheap oil
People’s Weekly: End of cheap oil is now
Shell execs briefed on peak oil in 1956
On quenching our “big thirst” for oil
12 steps of peak oil
Financial Express of India
Oil-aholics Anonymous: a 12-step program
1. We became aware of the extent to which our present lifestyle is deeply dependent on non-renewable fossil fuels and that these will run out.
2. We came to believe that only by giving up fossil fuels and all the modes that require them, do we have the chance of long term sustainable survival and eventually to thrive in harmony with nature.
Peak oil – May 5
Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger on peak oil
Washington Times: The coming crisis
Ellen Ratner (WND): America’s oil
Consumption and poverty – May 5
The gospel of consumption and the better future we left behind
The coming collapse of the middle class
Middle class on the precipice
Asian leaders issue poverty warning
