Personal – Jan 10
Stress of blogging can be a hazard to your health
How to reduce, prevent and cope with stress
Sharon Astyk: On finding my work
Staff
Peak oil – Jan 10
Orlov and Kunstler interviewed
Reuters on peak oil
Matthew Simmons: Another nail in the coffin of the case against peak oil
Middle East and Russia – Jan 10
Cleric calls for energy saving in Iran
Shell and Total square up over gasfield in Iraq’s Sunni heartland
Russia scaremongering cranked up again
Russia’s new Abbott and Costello defense
Asia – Jan 10
Paul Krugman: Dealing with the dragon
China to ban plastic bags
Energy subsidies fuel China steel export
A green bulldozer? S. Korea’s new president
India’s $2,500 cars = $200 oil?
South Asia hit by food shortages
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Biofuels – Jan 10
Ecological Society of America on biofuels
Brazil and the human cost of ethanol
Ethanol’s Minnesota roots
Energy reduction – Jan 10
Home energy use gets a ‘smackdown’ on reality TV
Fluorescents coming – any other bright ideas?
Digital tools help users save energy
Utilities amp up push to slash energy use
Wood is more precious than gold
You can’t eat gold like you can the bounty of trees in fruits, nuts, maple syrup, and various edible mushrooms and herbal treasures of the woodland. You can’t warm yourself with gold. You can’t bask in the shade of gold.
Looking backward – Jan 9
John Michael Greer (Archdruid Report) on Spengler, Toynbee and the decline of the American empire
Classicist: I stopped cheering for the Romans
A question of blame when societies fall
Noble or savage?
Deep thought – Jan 9
Comparative planetology: interview with Kim Stanley Robinson
Does the future need a legal guardian?
Jared Diamond: What’s your consumption factor?
Dr. Albert Bartlett in depth (transcript)
Fresh approaches to economics – Jan 9
Nate Hagens: evolution, addiction and economic demand
Joshua Farley and ecological economics
Carbon quota an eerie echo of Technocracy
Grim – Jan 9
New Year’s dissolution: Surrender vs giving up
The Shell Game: page-turner on peak oil, 9/11
Dvorksy: The Amish and collapse fetishism
The emotional scientist & melting models
Peak oil and the financial markets: A forecast for 2008
Most financial forecasts do not recognize the systematic bias that is now entering the financial system, because of limited oil supply. They also do not recognize the risk that comes from the interconnectedness of the system, that is now increasing because food is being used for fuel, and securities are more complex.
