Media – Sept 1
Point, click… eavesdrop: how the FBI wiretap net operates
How to submit ebooks to Project Gutenberg
A guide to media manipulation
Activism
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 1
Fred’s footprint: Measuring our global impact
Duncan Law on climate change and transition initiatives
Plastics & pollution – Sept 1
Plastic and the albatross
Message in the drink bottle: recycle
Not in whose backyard? (environmental justice)
Right, schmight, left, schmeft
“Transitioning gracefully from the Age of Excess to the Era of Modesty” – the subtitle of Richard Heinberg’s forthcoming book – invokes not just an era of more modest usage, but also social, sexual and cultural modesty, subjects that, if they are discussed at all, tend to be thought of as discussions to be had on the “right” rather than throughout the political spectrum.
The twelfth hour
For decades our collective conversation about the future has focused on claims that the eleventh hour has arrived and radical change is the only alternative to imminent catastrophe. Inevitably the peak oil situation has been portrayed in these terms.
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 25
Altar call for true believers
‘Right to Dry’ movement: the clothesline makes a comeback
Sharon Astyk on cutting your laundry energy
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)
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
