Burma fuel prices doubled – Aug 23
Hundreds protest in Myanmar over fuel price hike
Myanmar arrests dissidents, squashes fuel protests
Behind Burma’s fuel price rise
Fuel price policy explodes in Myanmar (Update)
Activism
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 23
When the sun is shining, break out the solar oven
Slow is beautiful
Building the climate camp (video)
Climate camp’s media mismanagement
No argument was ever won by people trying to hide or manipulate freedom of movement or speech. It is an ugly culture that cannot welcome its potential friends, and debate with its enemies, and which feels it must control people’s perceptions so crudely.
Climate – Aug 21
Monbiot: Beneath Heathrow’s pall of misery, a new political movement is born
US castoffs resume dirty career
Greenhouse development rights: climate-clean and fair?
Naked on a glacier to spread global warming message
Warming will exacerbate water conflicts
Climate – Aug 15
The case against expanding Heathrow airport
Crematorium concern over carbon footprint
Carbon market encourages chopping forests
Scientists warn Arctic sea ice is melting at its fastest rate
UK – Aug 14
BAA and police draw up Heathrow battle lines
Zerocarbonbritain – a new energy strategy
Monbiot: ads and the environment
Renewable energy: No policies, no cash
Climate – Aug 14
At World Bank, climate change isn’t part of the equation
We should all be at Heathrow protesting
How vulnerable to oil shocks are we, really?
Many pundits claim that the absence of severe consequences from oil price hikes were due to a growing independence of GDP creation from oil in our more efficient and more service-oriented economies. To what extent this is really true, and at what point will serious consequences set in?
Climate – Aug 11
Secrecy and terrorist laws at Heathrow airport demonstration
Rising temperatures “will stunt rainforest growth”
Australian coal miners promote action on climate change
Peak oil – Aug 11
Peak oil hits the Third World
Technology isn’t going to rescue us from oil
Professor Goose’s peak oil picks
Reborn SDS: Declaration of Independence from oil
Solutions & Sustainability – Aug 10
Rolling green
Pursuing sustainability at Community Colleges
Transition Town Totnes on BBC Scotland, & New Transition Film on Youtube
Mainstreaming Clean Energy in Rizhao, China
Energize America – two years on
Bill McKibben says of Energize America: “… an energy plan that I find far more comprehensive and thoughtful than anything the think tanks have produced.”
