Ethical consumption: consumer driven or political?
“If ethical consumption campaigns are to succeed they need to transform the infrastructures of every day consumption rather than focusing on changing individual consumer behaviour”.
Activism
Climate – Aug 7
Heat waves are getting longer in Europe
Monbiot:
The climate camp is a protest for democracy (Heathrow airport demo)
Same carbon credits sold twice
Deep thought – Aug 7
Insurgent American
Sharon Astyk de-constructs
The really inconvenient truth
In dusty archives, a theory of affluence
Media – Aug 4
YearlyKos: Blogs vs. MSM!
Behold the 15-minute publisher (getting around commercial book publishers)
Memory and vision: The Apollo Alliance and eco-apartheid
Can the Apollo Alliance, which promotes “growth” on the basis of green jobs, meet the challenges of peak oil and climate change?
Fourth U.S. conference on peak oil and community solutions
This October several hundred activists, educators, and community leaders pioneering a low-energy way of life will gather in Yellow Springs, Ohio, at a three-day conference
Climate – Aug 2
Climate protest at Heathrow airport may face “the mother of all injunctions”
Brazil, alarmed, reconsiders policy on climate change
Warming of glaciers threatens millions in China
Biofuels – July 31
David Blume’s Alcohol Can Be A Gas book
LS9 promises ‘renewable petroleum’
Poison plant could help to cure the planet
The ethanol effect
Sex, rock ‘n’ roll and global warming
If the Live Earth concerts are to continue, they ought to evolve to serve the transformation not just away from consumer society but toward a culture where we dance and sing and find our bling in things that are healthy for us and the planet.
The green consumer – July 28
Monbiot: Ethical shopping is just another way of showing how rich you are
Yes, we can shop our way to a cleaner Earth
Open season on ethical consumers?
Can ‘green chic’ save the planet?
Pressure builds to ban plastic bags
Turning the tide against bottled water
Climate – July 28
Action at Heathrow airport- catch-all protest injunction could bar millions
NASA’s James Hansen on Old King Coal
Climate change escalates Darfur crisis
Hansen: Huge sea level rises are coming – unless we act now
Forest Service offers carbon offsets
Oil producers – July 27
Pemex predicts end of oil
Bombing of Mexican pipelines puzzles security experts
Domestic demand: The main engine of Saudi Arabia’s growth
