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
Activism
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
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
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)
