Climate – Aug 14
At World Bank, climate change isn’t part of the equation
We should all be at Heathrow protesting
Activism
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.”
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”.
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
