Time to start growing your own bread
It is gratifying to know there are still Americans who, instead of wringing their hands at a possible problem headed their way, start figuring what to do about it.
Gene Logsdon
The Collapse Party platform
This being an election year in the US, I thought it fitting to circulate my little wish list of items that the US government could try to accomplish if it suddenly decided to make itself useful. [Excerpt from Reinventing Collapse]
When socialists take Wall Street
The unfolding spectacle of the American central government’s impotence in the face of disaster ought to make us ponder whether solutions for any of our problems can actually come from above.
Renewables – Mar 30
Amping up solar power in Southern California
New Calif 250MW photovoltaic initiative
Time:
The clean energy scam
Wind power breaks records in Spain
Transport – Mar 30
$1,200 a month fuels long commutes
Stuck in our cars on the highway to hell
Airlines lighten up to cut fuel costs
Activists do it locally – Mar 30
Denmark embraces a clean green dream
Vermont takes a baby step
Portland (Maine) – roadmap to sustainability
Food & agriculture – Mar 30
Markets nervous: will U.S. plant enough corn?
Jamie Oliver wants Britain on a wartime diet
Holmgren: Back to the backyard
Come on in, the farming’s fine
Geopolitics – Mar 30
John Gray: Those who control oil and water will control the world
UN rejects water as basic human right
Steve LeVine interview: Caspian oil struggle
Iraq surge doomed – cause? oil
Answer to Sunni-Shia conlict: gardening
Countdown to $?? oil – setting the stage
I’ve been promising to create a new target for the successor of the “Countdown to $100 oil” series, but I’m in a quandary as to what new target to select. So what are the factors driving oil prices in the near and medium term?
Hansen to Australian PM: stop coal plants now
Text of letter from climate scientist James Hansen to Australian PM Kevin Rudd calling on Rudd to provide global leadership to to climate change by ordering a halt to the “construction of coal-fired power plants that do not capture and sequester the C02” they produce.
Oil supplies – Mar 29
WSJ: Saudi desert’s gas mirage?
Greenland thaw may replace dog sleds with oil drills
Natural gas rush in Pennsylvania
China faces diesel, gasoline shortages
Peak oil – Mar 29
Udall, Lovins and Shell v-p on peak oil
Russian oil output to fall for first time in a decade
Sharon Astyk: Dissecting the Long Emergency
Peak oil is here, enjoy
Colin Campbell and the crack of doom
