Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Eugene makes an interesting case-study of a mid-sized city confronting the triple threat of Peak Oil, climate change, and financial meltdown. The area seems the perfect fit for relocalization. On the other hand, there is a wide gap between adding buzz words to the city manager’s lexicon and actually changing business as usual. Food security is a good place to start. (In-depth interview with writer and activist Dan Armstrong, part 1)
Costa Rica aims to be carbon-neutral
Climate change spurs local action
Rich, poor and climate change
24 world cities in ‘Earth Hour’ black-out
Monbiot: Juggle a few numbers, and it makes economic sense to kill people
Missing: the ‘right’ babies
Hierarchy is the result of dependency
Entropy is the problem, not energy
Are Americans hostile to knowledge?
The dumbing of America
The US state of denial
The former United States of America
We have only to look at historical events to see that it is perfectly possible, for both good and ill, to radically change circumstances in a host of ways that looked completely impossible not very long before.
Interview with climate scientist Susanne Moser: “A dam works well and for a long time, until one day it breaks. A social movement builds slowly and quietly, until one day it takes off and major political changes become possible. We’re witnessing the building of such a climate protection movement right now.”
Does peak oil “make ordinary politics irrelevant”?
Monastery throws switch on green initiatives
Generation Green taking on parents to help them save the planet
How former miners transformed a pit into an energy village
Eco-villages prove to be sustainable
Congressman Roscoe Bartlett has made about 30 speeches to the House about peak oil, and a book is in the works. In an interviewer with an Energy Bulletin contributor, he suggests raising the peak oil issue with your Member of Congress.
Morford: The machine gun of capitalism
Bush recommends 40% cut in Amtrak budget
Kunstler: Serial bubbles?
One anthropologist’s view
A green energy industry takes root in California
Environmental and social justice groups Call for federal agrofuels moratorium
Australia experiences hottest ever January
US drought ‘man-made’ says study
Hundreds of profs hold green ‘teach-in’
Sheryl Crow’s peak oil protest song
Cheap at twice the price: sustainable fashion
Europe thinks alternatively in quest to go ‘green’
High oil prices boost energy efficiency
