Coal – July 27
China burns 18% more thermal coal in Jan-June
Largest coal gasification project in the U.S.
Dogging Big Coal (protest)
Coal reserves & resources- a gentle cough
Activism
Transport – July 26
Bicycle shame
Make your mark and ground the growth of aviation (Heathrow)
Carbon cost of building and operating light rail
On the rails to nowhere (Sydney rail)
The seven habits of highly subversive people
Habit #1. Think
Habit #2: Understand the big picture, the global supply chain of everything that you touch
Habit #3: Fix, make or bake stuff yourself
Habit #4:
Know your porn so that you can understand how you are being told what to desire
United States – July 19
Foreign demand for U.S. securities surges to record (but China sells U.S. Treasuries)
The battered Hummer that symbolises a divided nation
Murdoch’s arrival worries Wall Street Journal employees
Live Earth – July 6
Millions to work for climate protection
Live Earth pledges
Why rock won’t save the planet
Could this be the global-warming generation?
Sad – July 3
For poor families, a burden of too many pets
How did it come to this? (eco-sabotage trials)
The new age of ignorance (about science)
The difference between hypocrisy and unilateral disarmament
At least one prominent person in the peak oil movement says he can no longer justify attending overseas conferences because of the energy used and the greenhouse gases emitted. And yet, to forego travel and modern methods of communication altogether would be to engage in unilateral disarmament.
Solutions & sustainability – June 21
Colin Fletcher, backpacking trailblazer, dies
A wiser Earth movement (Paul Hawken)
Debating energy as if communities mattered
Archdruid envisions the future:
Adam’s Story
Sharon Astyk interview
Climate policy – June 19
Emission possible: Sweden the eco-powerhouse
Exxon attacks Greenpeace but says it wants to save the planet
Monbiot debates with Clive Hamilton
Yes Men make modest flesh-to-fuel proposal
Deep thinking – June 12
The Shockwave Rider
Monthly Review: A new war on the planet?
Ancient innovations for present conventions toward extinction
Al Gore stole my job
Before Al Gore made global warming a political movement, I had a job to do and a sense of purpose. Fight global warming, save the planet. Now, were I to take up the topic, I would be merely redundant. There is a disorienting sense that the movement is no longer on my turf, that it has been handed over to bigger entities.
Solutions & sustainability – June 10
Cyclists peel off clothes to push pedaling and protest oil
21 principles for the 21st century
Biofuels, diapers and sails – oh my!
New episodes of Peak Moment television
