Peak oil & supplies – May 23
Colin J. Campbell interview: “Time for solutions is running out”
Former CIBC chief economist Jeff Rubin: Peak-nik
Mexico oil exports plummet
Staff
Economics – May 23
Martin Wolf: This crisis is a moment, but is it a defining one?
When did your county’s jobs disappear? An interactive map
Recession turns malls into ghost towns
United States – May 23
Regional climate pact’s lesson: avoid big giveaways to industry
Raising The CAFE standard will increase driving
Green camo: seeing through the military’s new environmentalism
Looking at ‘spoiled’ Americans through an energy lens
Europe – May 23
Caroline Lucas: Painting a positive vision of a post-carbon world
Wales plans for energy self-sufficiency with renewables in 20 years
EuroElections 2009 : Party of European Socialists (PES)
How To Boil A Frog (film review)
A lively film promoting activism via video that is in itself a sophisticated example of the medium. With a personal narrative from author/activist Jon Cooksey, this is a rapid fire account of five problems that are bringing the human race to the brink of disaster due to ecological deterioration of the planet.
Food & agriculture – May 22
Can a city girl live off wild food for a week in Portland?
The lazy farmer (Australia)
Ecological economics and the food system
Slow Money on the farm
Humanity, good food & animal welfare
Health & population – May 22
Strong opinions about obesity
David Attenborough: Our planet is overcrowded
Recession ‘entertainment’ may beget new baby boom
The sinking Titanic: interview with Michael C. Ruppert
Interview with investigative journalist and author Michael C. Ruppert about his new book A Presidential Energy Policy.
Climate 2030: a national blueprint for a clean energy economy
Yesterday, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) released the Climate 2030: A National Blueprint for a Clean Energy Economy, a peer-reviewed study showing that the United States can dramatically cut global warming pollution while saving households and businesses in every region of the nation billions of dollars in energy costs.
Transport – May 21
Obama’s big step in right direction on auto fuel efficiency and emissions
Obama auto efficiency move a blow to U.S. refiners
Getting Americans out from behind the wheel
Bicycles touted as ‘first modern post-fossil vehicle’
Mr. Market gets it wrong again
Let me take a moment to explain why oil prices reflecting actual market conditions might be important to us. Regardless of whether we are in the Peak Oil Era — we probably are — in 2009, we would like to know at all times what the relative abundance of the Elixir of Life (with respect to demand for it) for Industrial Civilizations is.
Humanity at a crossroads
The evidence is gaining increasing clarity: We’ve reached a crossroads unlike any other in human history. One path leads to despair for Homo industrialis. The other leads to extinction, for Homo sapiens and the millions of species we are taking with us into the abyss. I’ll take door number one.
