Prices & supplies – Apr 8
Forecasting Coal Production Until 2100
In search of Lithium
The Future of Oil Prices
Staff
The Green Power Illusion
America is finally showing leadership on climate change. But unfortunately the Obama Administration and the majority of US climate change activists haven’t learned very important lessons from the peak oil debate and look to be leading the world down an illusory path.
Protest – Apr 7
In America, Labor Has an Unusually Long Fuse
European workers rebel as G-20 looms
Bageant: We’ve Let Corporations and Media Rob Our Souls — It’s Time to Do Something Meaningful
The killing-fields of inequality
Burning our bridges to the XXI century
As modernity runs out of resources (those photons sequestered eons ago in fossil form, now released as carbon dioxide into the atmosphere) patterns of life naturally retreat to their pre-modern forms. If there are no more sneakers from China, we sew moccasins or whittle clogs. If we are resource-poor but resourceful, we can still weave basket-like shoes out of birch bark, stuffed with straw for insulation, called lapti. If we are truly destitute and feckless to boot, then we go barefoot.
Economics – Apr 7
Theory of oil-shock recession
Communities print their own currency to keep cash flowing
Chris Cook: Banking on Energy
Oil As Money and the Decline of Energy Earnings
Food & agriculture – Apr 7
Great Depression Cooking with 93-year-old Clara Cannucciari
Small farms fear bearing brunt of new food safety regulations
Backyard Revolution(video and transcript)
Dysfunction – Apr 7
Klare: Global Crime Wave?
Crime down in Los Angeles, other parts of Southern California
Dying alone, drowning in rubbish piled solid to the ceiling
Chinese try to curb ‘plague of desert rats’ in Tibet with contraceptives
Climate & environment – Apr 7
Ice bridge holding Antarctic ice shelf cracks up
California faces greater risk from global warming
Arctic meltdown is a threat to humanity
Climate Change Changes Everything
China’s grand plans for eco-cities now lie abandoned
Mostly conceived by international architects, China’s eco-cities were intended to be models of green urban design. But the planning was done with little awareness of how local people lived, and the much-touted projects have largely been scrapped.
United States – Apr 7
Kunstler: Strange Days
Americans Support Wide Array of Proposed Energy Policies, but Not Yet Ready to Make Tradeoffs
LNG promoters should forget about California
Nabucco pipeline in the cobweb of Byzantine energy politics
Nabucco’s odds appear to be going downhill as confusion over the destiny of Eurasian gas intensifies. Lack of a credible pan-European energy policy, combined with prospects of improvement in Western relations with Iran, makes the future of regional pipeline projects uncertain.
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 7
Slum cooker protects environment, helps poor
TOD: What are YOU Changing (*if anything), Individually, Locally, Nationally, etc?
Walking restores the world and humanity
Post Carbon Newsletter #48, March 2009
