Lighting a candle – Jan 3
Co-founder of UN climate panel dies
Vandana Shiva questions globalization
Outspoken environmentalist puts his money where his mouth is
Norman Reynolds, 1941-2007: A people’s economist
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Oil prices & supplies – Jan 3
Oil trades near $100, OPEC can’t end rally
Saudi Aramco delays production start from Khursaniyah
CERA’s Yergin: ‘New era’ of oil prices
Jerome a Paris finishes Countdown to $100 oil, starts anew
Australian oil/gas fields shut on cyclone
German economists: Oil to hit $200 in 2018
Faith – Jan 3
Bill McKibben on Gandhi
Pope makes appeal to protect the environment
Religious leaders back climate-change action
Report of the United Church of Christ environment and energy task force
Hear no peak
Just as the Financial Times’ news coverage of oil was beginning to improve, a recent article goes and spoils it with a truly shoddy analysis.
Hallowing the descent
Quaker writer John Yungblut used the ways of thinking he found to deal with his Parkinson’s disease to provide a new way “into” times of personal and collective hardship.
Climate science – Jan 2
‘Shocking’ Arctic ice melt
Ancient warming caused huge temp spike
Tropical virus moves to Italy
Climate round-up – Jan 2
New Scientist: ‘Year of the environment’
Top 10 global warming stories
Independent: ‘The sheer scale hasn’t sunk in’
Gwynne Dyer: It was all about oil, global warming
Water – Jan 2
Great Lakes record lows
Thirsting for answers in dry Georgia
Water and health: 88% of diseases caused by bad drinking water and hygiene
Cities – Jan 2
Edinburgh city initiative on ‘peak oil’
TIME: How green is your neighborhood?
Cities and energy consumption
Food & agriculture – Jan 2
The perfect casserole: just add badger
Supermarket flies fish 5,000 miles from country where millions are starving
The invisible ingredient in every kitchen: heat
Sharon Astyk: Future of the quik ‘n easy meal
Climate policy – Jan 2
Bill McKibben: ‘Remember this: 350 parts per million’
Cap and trade: why grandfathering sucks
Geo-engineering- a debate whose time has gone
India: The poverty of the rich
UK to assess climate cost of all decisions
Foolish choices – Jan 2
Japan mines `flammable ice,’ flirts with environmental disaster
An end to coal power? Unlikely
Hansen: The wrong choice for Massachusetts
