Nuclear – Aug 24
Japan’s nuclear plants at risk from quake damage
Green light for uranium sales to India
Staff
Solar and technology – Aug 24
Inkjet-printable solar panels… really!
When it comes to solar- lest we forget
Jeremy Leggett: Summoning the will to tap our solar brilliance
Beyond batteries: Storing power in a sheet of paper
Health, climate, water – Aug 24
WHO says sex, farming, growing population gives diseases breeding ground
Pollution causes 40 percent of deaths worldwide, study finds
Sea rise outpacing forecasts due To Antarctica
Queensland fast-tracks emergency water supply for worst case scenario
Current global challenges and alternative energy futures for South Africa
An extensive document covering the impact of Peak Oil and other factors on the future development of South Africa. Two scenarios are proposed to investigate potential impacts responses.
(Executive summary)
Peak oil – Aug 23
Richard Heinberg interview
On sale: 2015 crude oil below $45 ! (The market does not believe in peak oil)
ASPO international conference in Ireland mid-September
EROEI: Boundaries and calculations
Deep thought – Aug 23
Urgency and global warming: Interview with physicist Martin I. Hoffert
Topsoil loss – causes, effects and implications
Tipping points in the Earth system
United States – Aug 23
Dilip Hiro: The sole superpower in decline
Priority changes on U.S. green policies
Administration breaking law by withholding global warming report, judge rules
Bush rule to expand mountaintop coal mining
Thomas Friedman: Go green and save money
US Army War College:
US oil dependency- new weapon of mass disruption
Food & agriculture – Aug 23
Global warming to decimate China’s harvests
Chicago wheat gains on speculation U.S. export demand to rise
Uganda farmers use human urine as fertilizers, pesticide
Bullock brothers homestead- 25-years of permaculture
The bounty around us
Air travel – Aug 23
WHO predicts more global epidemics, blames air travel
TIME: Does flying harm the planet?
Oil Depletion and the Brisbane airport expansion
What’s off the record at N.H.T.S.A.? Almost everything
The newly appointed head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has put the big hush on one of the government’s most important safety agencies. The agency’s new policy effectively means that some of the world’s top safety researchers are no longer allowed to talk to reporters or to be freely quoted about automotive safety issues that affect pretty much everybody.
Burma fuel prices doubled – Aug 23
Hundreds protest in Myanmar over fuel price hike
Myanmar arrests dissidents, squashes fuel protests
Behind Burma’s fuel price rise
Fuel price policy explodes in Myanmar (Update)
Climate – Aug 22
Climate advocacy and the 2007 Australian election
Climate change called security issue like Cold War
Blow off the Arctic ice melting…let’s drill for more oil
