United Kingdom – September 3
Throwaway razors and nappies should be taxed as luxuries, says Defra
Oil costs bring thinner bin bags
Ghost Species
Johnson unveils secret weapon in war on climate change – the roof garden
Staff
Peak Oil – September 3
Rogers says bull market in oil has `years to go’
Megaprojects predict decline of oil production
The crash course (End of Money) (audio and slides)
Peak retail sales in Italy?
The question Wall Street is ignoring but the world can’t: Is oil production falling faster than demand?
Geopolitics – September 3
Michael Klare: Putin’s Ruthless Gambit
Iraq reaches oil agreement with China
A foreign policy that makes little sense at all
Food & agriculture – September 3
Victory garden
George Monbiot – fructivist
Beyond carbon: Scientists worry about nitrogen’s effects
Human waste used by 200 million farmers, study says
Drought in Australian Food Bowl Worsens
Solutions & sustainability – September 3
Hot Japan’s cool green trends
Plan C 5.0: Community Solutions to Climate Change and Peak Oil
Introducing Transition Chat!Planting seeds: Website seeks to liberate diets – and wallets – from supermarket
Sharon Astyk adapts in place: an exposé
This is a guest post by writer Mynda Ubis-Ness, a lead reporter from the Canadian Environmental Magazine “Salacious Green.” Mynda writes “I asked Astyk for an interview about her newly released (on store shelves today) book, but it became very clear shortly after I arrived at her farm that there was a much bigger story here – she’s not really what dozens of readers have come to believe she is. The public has a right to know how she’s misleading us!”
Food from thought
There are many emotional issues surrounding the care, and consumption of animals. Because they move, and breathe, and make noise, we can relate to all animals on a most basic level.
Peak Oil – September 2
A growing global power crisis looks to be greater economic and political danger than oil
ASPO Newsletter for September
The Archdruid nails it: Energy conservation, not efficiency, is key
Shocklets
United States – September 2
Pollster Zogby: Americans ahead of their leaders?
Palin: Big Oil’s new champion
Douglas administration’s energy plan is too timid
Climate & environment – September 2
Brazil: Deforestation rises sharply as farmers push into Amazon
Can engineering the earth save it from catastrophe?
Australia’s coal emissions are worst, says global study
Reflections on “An Inconvenient Truth”
Hurricane destroys oil infrastructure; oil price falls
In the task of waking humanity up to the plight of resource depletion, the market is not very helpful, even if it occasionally does give useful warning signs. It’s a bit like the broken clock that tells perfect time twice a day.
The man who created paradise (a fable)
Remarkable story about strip-mining, farming and resurgence.
Wendell Berry writes in the Foreward: “… there is something wondrous and redemptive about … [an effort that would] employ the technology of destruction to begin the restoration of what has been destroyed; and how this singular effort might inspire the efforts of others to do the same thing; and how finally a whole community of people might ally themselves with the inherent goodwill of any place to heal itself and become the Paradise it once was.”
