Climate policy – Oct 21
Fight against coal plants draws diverse partners
Vancouver Sun: “we have to move carefully”
Artist Bateman: We need a carbon tax
Activism
United Kingdom – Oct 18
Green groups condemn UK’s claim in Antarctica
Britain’s new claim for sovereignty in Antarctica is all about energy
BP executive pied as Europe’s largest biofuels event disrupted
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 15
Popular Mechanics on appropriate technology
Change the message to save the planet
What a way to go – wake-up call
The environmental movement in the Global South
Peak oil – Oct 15
Peak minerals
New presentations by Matt Simmons
Heinberg: Upside to rising price of the black stuff
New doomer cult classic What a Way to Go
Peak oil and global warming: most serious threats to Progressive ideals
Will ‘ASPO Effect’ send oil prices higher?
Energy and environment round-up
ODAC News
Peak oil – Oct 10
Van Jones: ‘Grow the comfort zone’
Heinberg attacks airlines’ bid to fly more Kiwis
Hubbert Linearization applied on Ghawar
BBC-Wales: Peak oil, local food and transition
Think oil can’t go higher? Think again
News Round-up from TOD:Canada
ODAC News
United Kingdom – Oct 9
Monbiot: The new coal age
Britain is second biggest consumer in the world
Greenpeace protesters take over power plant in Kent
Climate change protesters block airport entrance at Manchester
Deep thought – Oct 8
Sharon Astyk: The Fertile Crescent and the closed circle
World moves into the ecological red
The prophet misarmed: Trotsky, ecology and sustainability
Review: Deep Economy by Bill McKibben
Willits and the problem of slow knowledge
After three years, Willits, while still a clear leader in peak oil preparedness, has not achieved nearly the progress envisioned by Bradford and other organizers. While their sense of urgency still remains, they have begun to realize that municipal governments move at what seems like a glacial pace and that public awareness is not the same as public understanding.
Climate – Oct 8
Sudan: ‘Water is running out’
For West, climate change is about water
Inner Mongolia grasslands turning to sand
1000 SUVs in Sweden disarmed by Indians of the Concrete Jungle
Linkfest from Gristmill
United States – Oct 6
Gulf currency revaluation risk could ‘squeeze dollar further’
Secessionists meeting in Tennessee
The green job boom
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 5
Australia’s first Transition Town!
Investing that is really socially responsible
Life without lights in a Ghanaian village
Trials and tribulations of setting up a local Climate Action group
The holiness of Stuart Staniford
Ruminations about Stuart Staniford’s work at The Oil Drum from a Christian perspective, why he exhibits some religious virtues and why the doomer perspective does not.
