Solutions & sustainability – Nov 8
Innovative program helps residents protect their water
Environmentalism with a social conscience
Taking the tasty approach
Green computing update
Activism
Hoping for a new New Deal
Is it realistic for peak oilers to look to the New Deal as a model of how the US political system could respond to the crisis? A historian of the New Deal is afraid not.
Let’s play “Peak Oil Shock Me”
An increasingly popular parlor game among peak oil activists is to see who can serve up the most shocking morsel of peak oil news at any one sitting. There are now plenty of morsels to choose from on an almost daily basis.
Deep thought – Nov 2
The world’s expected carrying capacity in a post industrial agrarian society
Saving the ecosystems of Middle Earth
John Michael Greer: the politics of transition
United States – Oct 24
Sustainable South Bronx: need for green collar jobs to reduce poverty
Government money short to help poor pay heating bills
Energy traders avoid scrutiny
Montana and Kansas take on Big Coal
US hopes for coal gasification ride on one project
Hard times – Oct 23
Will increased income and wealth disparity lead to generational class war?
Why is Vancouver eating its young?
The heat or eat dilemma
Living paycheck to paycheck gets harder
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
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
