United States – Dec 15
Bad Times Draw Bigger Crowds to Churches
Recession prompts some couples to delay having kids
The Delta debate in California: Resurrecting the canal
Drought parches much of the U.S., may get worse
Staff
United Kingdom & Europe – Dec 15
Greece: How police shooting of a teenage boy rallied the ‘€700 generation’
If we’re going to spend, then let’s invest in Britain’s future
This won’t deliver without a global deal
Apeakalypse Now
The culture shock I felt upon my return from Thailand was so severe I was in a stupor for a month not knowing how to direct my life. I did not feel safe sitting in a house with a mortgage. I did not feel safe in America itself. I saw a nation of people carrying massive amounts of credit card debt and few practical skills. They had less of a safety net than a Thai farmer. … Just as the tide going out reveals an awesome array of flora and fauna living in hidden tide pools, so too did the economic crisis reveal an amazing array of creatures I had no idea existed.
Peak oil warfare: community security strategy
When talking of security, we must first understand that security does not necessarily equate to military solutions. Community (or National) security includes many different aspects, the most significant of which are economics, diplomacy, information, and military power.
Climate – Dec 14
Astyk: Why the IPCC report has to go
California adopts the most sweeping curbs on greenhouse gas emissions in U.S.
Contraction & Convergence tabled at Poznan
Deep thought – Dec 14
Hubbert: king of the Technocrats
Astyk: Why Failure is normal, and should be part of the plan…but isn’t
A distant mirror: Ireland’s great famine
New Scientist: Top 10 environment articles in 2008
Suburbs, cities and sustainability
If we’re going to understand the problems that the modern megapolis will face in the coming decades, we need to look past the usual distinctions, to the design flaws that now lie behind not just suburbia but cities and even “rural” communities (a depressing number of which have been Walmartized).
Peak oil, prices & supplies – Dec 13
Post Carbon Cities (peak oil for the American Planning Association)
Goldman Sachs predicts fall in oil prices to $45 a barrel
As China economy brakes, oil demand goes in reverse
Energy giants trim spending plans for 2009
Food & agriculture Dec 12
Obama’s ‘Secretary of Food’?
World Bank’s ‘Wrong Advice’ Left Silos Empty in Poor Countries
Environment minister calls for a ‘food Kyoto’ as a billion people face starvation
Promoting the passive house – a report on the 3rd annual North American Passive House Conference
The passive house could play a major role in cutting energy consumption and offers the best way to radically alter our building practices.
United States – Dec 12
Energy secretary pick argues for new fuel sources
A Past President’s Advice to Obama: Act With Haste
Obama starts filling energy team
Hurdles, opportunities for ‘green’ stimulus
Browner to get the nod as Obama’s top energy and climate adviser
Christine Todd Whitman talks about greening the GOP and running the EPA
Economics – Dec 12
Stiglitz: Capitalist fools
Price Trends: Gasoline and CPI Are Twins
The attack of the Invisible Hand
