Food crisis – Apr 27
The troubles with food (food security vs food sovereignty)
Anti-hunger protests in Haiti
Avoidable hunger (subsidies)
Afghanistan food riots
Staff
Peak oil – Apr 27
Christopher Harvie, New Scotsman
Mark Hertsgaard, The Nation
J. Robinson West, Public Interest
Lyssa Beyer, student editor
Right-wing pundits
Raymond J. Learsy, Huffington Post
Michael C. Ruppert, From The Wilderness
Book review – World Made by Hand
Kunstler’s novel brings to life a community and world that Kunstler himself has created – informed by his many years of study of our society, its built environment, and the Peak Oil threat. He has tempered his usual neo-Gonzo writing style and created interesting characters with depth and complexity.
United States – Apr 25
100s of EPA scientists cite political interference
What nuclear renaissance?
Social Security: false alarm or false hope?
Geopolitics – Apr 25
Fuel shortage forces UN to halt food handouts in Gaza
Interview with Bolivian President Evo Morales
Morales’ 10 commandments to save the planet, life and humanity
Coal in Europe – Apr 25
Europe turns back to coal, raising climate fears
Falling Polish coal output raises energy security fears
Transport – Apr 25
Is humanity’s restlessness a threat to the planet?
With first car, a new life in China
Garden – Apr 25
Stand by your beds – guerrilla gardening
Warming shifts gardeners’ maps
Pasadena family finds change can start in your own backyard
Climate & envrionment – Apr 25
Pine beetles may affect climate change
Up the Yangtze: documentary on impact of Three Gorges Dam
Three planetary futures: Reno, Cairo, Nanisivik
Peak oil – Apr 25
Simmons: Has Twilight In The Desert begun?
Peak oil interview with Prof Peter Newman
James Kunstler in Business Week
Le Québec pourrait manquer de pétrole dès 2030
PO is real, it’s time economists faced up
Deep thought – Apr 25
Sharon Astyk: Ok, breathe
The politics of food is politics
Peak civilization and the winter of our disconnect
Everything you think you know about modern society is wrong (and why it matters for PO)
Oil prices & supplies – Apr 25
Grangemouth strike to close pipeline at cost of £50m a day
Russia’s oil production is about to peak
There’s more to $120 oil than speculation: Jeffrey Brown’s Export Land Model
‘Age of scarcity’ will drive oil to $225 US a barrel: CIBC
