United States – Feb 6
Morford: The machine gun of capitalism
Bush recommends 40% cut in Amtrak budget
Kunstler: Serial bubbles?
One anthropologist’s view
Activism
Renewables – Feb 2
A green energy industry takes root in California
Environmental and social justice groups Call for federal agrofuels moratorium
Climate – Feb 2
Australia experiences hottest ever January
US drought ‘man-made’ says study
Hundreds of profs hold green ‘teach-in’
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 30
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
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 22
Earth Hour: Going dark for the environment
Seeking ways to help the world’s poorest
New site critiques press coverage of science and the environment
Personal – Jan 10
Stress of blogging can be a hazard to your health
How to reduce, prevent and cope with stress
Sharon Astyk: On finding my work
Media & activism – Jan 9
Reality TV “Dumped” – 11 volunteers marooned in a South London rubbish dump
Buzzwords 2007
How to diversify environmentalism?
Growing importance of nonprofit journalism
Faith – Jan 3
Bill McKibben on Gandhi
Pope makes appeal to protect the environment
Religious leaders back climate-change action
Report of the United Church of Christ environment and energy task force
Economics – Dec 18
Kunstler: Failure beyond finance
Krugman: After the money’s gone
Consensus is moving towards how severe the hard landing (recession) will be
Peak oil and portfolio prudence
Congressional report: Rich are getting richer faster, much faster
WTO director: “Capitalism cannot satisfy us”
Beyond the point of no return
It’s too late to stop climate change, argues long-time journalist Ross Gelbspan — so what do we do now?
Strategizing on the transition to organic agriculture
Astyk’s law: “Top-down strategies must be concurrent with and redundant to bottom-up strategies.”
Solvitur Ambulando
Proposals for dealing with the onset of peak oil often focus on large-scale, ideologically defined solutions. A more modest piecemeal approach may offer more options in the unpredictable future ahead of us.
