Climate – May 16
Dealing with climate risks: adaptation
Global warming may exceed infections as health threat
Climate change biggest threat to health, doctors say
Bill McKibben: Can 350.org save the world?
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Depletion & peak oil – May 16
Book review: On Borrowed Time? Assessing the Threat of Mineral Depletion
Letter in Science on Hubbert linearization
Kjell to speak on peak oil in Sydney
Are we moving towards a new oil crisis?
The slavery of oil
Coal – May 15
Coal Supply May Be Vastly Overestimated
CO2-Abtrennung in der Kritik
You just can’t clean coal, warn activists
United States and Canada – May 15
Barack Obama’s key climate bill hit by $45m PR campaign
Scouts Train to Fight Terrorists, and More
Deb Doncaster at CPFO talks about Ontario’s Green Energy and Economy Act (audio)
Geopolitics – May 15
Report: Climate change will bring big problems for small number of countries
Moscow warns of future energy wars
King Abdullah of Jordan’s ultimatum: peace now or it’s war next year
Pipelineistan goes Af-Pak
ODAC Newsletter – 15 May 2009
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
Food & agriculture – May 15
Against the grain of industrial agriculture, truly local bread stages a comeback
Legal or Not, Chickens Are the Chic New Backyard Addition
China goes farming as factories close
Halve it!
If you are new to trying to lower your impact, or just trying to save money and energy, it can be helpful to think in terms not of giving things up, but of halving them – using a combination of techniques to stretch things out a bit, and let you use or need only half as much. Because everything you halve, means half as much pollution, half as much waste, half as much money.
Deep thought – May 14
Peak Oil or Climate Change: Which Is Most Urgent?
On American Sustainability – Anatomy of Societal Collapse
Global Citizenship- Opportunities for Change
Food & agriculture – May 14
The ‘Process’ of Rebuilding a Local Food Economy
Michael Pollan Dishes out Advice on Healthful Eating
How should we eat to ensure a sustainable future?
There is No Box: Big Ideas About Urban Agriculture and Local Food Systems
Renewables & efficiency – May 14
The Wind does NOT Blow “Only 1/3 of the Time”
Yes, we can solve the energy crisis
The Value of Wind – why more renewable energy means lower electricity bills
The Reign of Error
Some of us think humankind will be running low on exploitable fossil fuels in the first half of the 21st century. Resource depletion can change climate change scenarios significantly. I’ll briefly present my version of that story here, my confidence buoyed by the knowledge that such a narrative can not possibly be less reasonable than positions staked out in the global warming debate.
