Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff Angelo Pelligrini: A man of the earth reaps the good life (local food pioneer)
Dr. Paul MacCready, giant of efficient mobility technologies, passes (1925-2007)
Liberal Democrats aim for a carbon-neutral, non-nuclear Britain
Richard Hawkins on alternative energy technologies
Dear President Bush,
Now is the time to shift the decision for our dilemma in Iraq to the American people. Allow the American people to choose between 1) a military draft which would be required for a real “Surge to Victory” or 2) a “War on Oil Addiction.”
Introduction to Heinberg’s new book Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines. (Excerpts)
Greek forest fires could be CO2 threat
Climate change brings ticks ever closer
Al Gore, James Hansen, and civil disobedience
NASA scientists challenge security rules- claim agency may be trying to silence them about global warming
The Nation on the Hundred-Mile Diet
Global food crisis looms as climate change and population growth strip fertile land
Climate change and N. America farms to be studied
Food prices set to surge 50% within five years
Britons hungry for organic fare, but prices up
Yemeni food price protests turn violent
Homespun living Pasadena family gets basics from own efforts
The green faith effect
Pope to youth: Save planet ‘before it is too late’
No holiday for nation’s 24/7 ‘energy slaves’
John Hockenberry searches for peak oil awareness
TOD:Canada energy news
Electric bicycles also known as E-Bikes are becoming more and more common in Chinese cities; they represent wealth, a status symbol for the middle class.
Iraq far from U.S. goals for energy
Deep sea drilling in the Gulf is chancy, but has big payoff
Denmark, Texas swap their wind and oil knowledge
China takes “urgent” energy challenge to masses
Nations agree on need for action on climate change
U.N. climate talks end in cloud of discord
Oil-producing nations will have to control gas flaring
World Bank calls on oil producers to cut $50bn gas fire
An oil crisis is coming, to add to our climate change woes. And the only practical solution is in our own back yards.
