Green Party in Massachusetts takes stand on peak oil
Two closely related crises of immense proportions are breaking upon the world: “climate change” and “peak oil.” Together we can call them the “fossil fuel crisis.”
Activism
Climate policy – Dec 3
Australia’s new government ratifies Kyoto pact
Australia has done a backflip
International vs US labor movements on climate
Dysfunction – Dec 3
Naomi Klein: Forget the green technology – the hot money is in guns
Eat, drink and be miserable: the true cost of our addiction to shopping
Clogged by plastic bags, Africa begins banning them
Peak oil – Dec 3
Oil decline pressing Vermonters now
Connecticut legislator in a bind: PO vs LNG
IBM engineer on peak oil
Peak oil, class struggle, and the thermodynamics of production
$100 oil fades fast
What should members of the peak oil movement call themselves?
If we don’t label ourselves, someone will do it for us.
Coming out of the eco-closet
Being Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual or Transgender in this culture isn’t easy. Yet many of you are finding your way in that. And as you take a stand, are you not finding empowerment and perhaps even excitement at times? I invite you to do the same regarding the state of the world.
Middle class angst: The politics of lemmings
The deepest fear in suburbia, never spoken aloud, is that when this epoch unravels, Suburbia’s citizens quite simply will not know how to survive… The real choice that Suburbia will face is one between fascism or self-sufficiency, which is a choice – as well – between spiritual death or spiritual renewal.
Media – Nov 29
Society of Environmental Journalists: Guide to information and disinformation about climate change
Cold Facts: good climate documentary waffles
News reporting faces web challenge, warns New York Times editor
The newspaper in the days of digital anarchy
Transport – Nov 27
France’s secret weapon to beat global warming: the horse
Ford chairman talks up bikes, mopeds, public transport: ‘individual car ownership as we know it today will change’
Bicycle respect: fighting the motorheads
CNN: Must we give up our cars?
Fascism, feudalism, and the future
A number of writers on peak oil now insist that the American political class intends to impose a “feudal-fascist” regime on the world. A look behind this rhetoric exposes some uncomfortable issues in the contemporary peak oil movement.
Deep thought – Nov 11
From state-based sovereignty towards bright green governance
World energy to 2050: a half century of decline
Sharon Astyk: Scared? Duh.
Transport – Nov 11
Ed Black on who killed the electric car and the electric streetcar
Want better transit? Unionize!
Ship emissions seen causing 60,000 deaths a year
