Chasing solutions – May 20
Jamais Cascio: How many Earths? (the real key to sustainability)
Chasing utopia, family imagines no possessions
Symbols can overshadow substance
Get ready to rethink what it means to be green
Activism
Peak oil movement – May 20
Peak oil for teenagers (talk)
Australia Pumping Empty: PO film coming
THE progressive crises: Global warming and peak oil
Politicians on peak oil – May 17
Queensland Sustainability Minister Andrew McNamara
Andy Welti (Minnesota House)
Connecticut State Rep. Terry Backer
Energy industry – May 16
Strange bedfellows unite to pressure oil giants
In Colorado, an unlikely alliance against drilling
Norway: Just like building the alaska pipeline – underwater
Deep thought – May 16
A leftist critique of Transition Towns – review by Rob Hopkins
Malthus, the false prophet
Are there just too many people in the world?
Green industry hub rises from Rust Belt ruins
Innovators are making the Pittsburgh region an eco-showcase of the benefits of going green and bringing new hope to the economically depressed Rust Belt region. (Highly recommended. Excerpts – audio and video available)
Futures – May 11
A green industrial revolution?
Videos: Cuba’s green revolution
Biofuels and the rise of nationalistic environmentalism
Outposts – May 9
Peak oil task force for Bellingham, Wash.
‘Peak oil’ is here. Now what? (R.I.)
Dream of cohesive Cascadia never dies
Food & agriculture – May 6
‘Zero mile diet’ blooms in BC – gardening boom
City neighborhoods loss of supermarkets
Billions at risk from wheat super-blight
World food crisis: sources and solutions
The world’s food insecurity – echoes of 70s
Urban design – May 6
WaPo: Fighting global warming block by block
City of Swiss-style hill villages envisioned for Vancouver
Bellingham planning for PO
Are livable cities just a dream?
Food crisis – Apr 27
The troubles with food (food security vs food sovereignty)
Anti-hunger protests in Haiti
Avoidable hunger (subsidies)
Afghanistan food riots
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)
