A question of scale
The relocalization efforts of sustainability-oriented groups could easily be put in great peril by corporate interests seeking to squeeze out the last possible profits before the inevitable decline.
Activism
The failure of reason
As we approach the peak of world oil production, and proposed solutions proliferate, the social momentum of the industrial world moves the other way. The connection between the two sides of this paradox may be closer than it appears.
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 1
Kretzmann: New stirrings & targets for activism
Julian Darley: “Relocalize now!”
Astyk: All the news [& what to do about it]
Green tech: Silicon Valley’s new bubble?
Top five US cities for Cleantech
Coal: turnaround at TXU
Wall Street adds climate change to bottom line
TXU accepts $45B takeover; buyers made environmental pledge
TXU’s emissions U-turn shocks power industry
A battle over how to build new US coal plants
Tony Juniper: Peak oil, climate change and the role of local communities
Interview with Tony Juniper, executive director of Friends of the Earth UK, and a seasoned environmental campaigner.
Climate policy – Feb 18
Investor group unveils climate blacklist
EU energy ministers can’t agree on target
Politicians sign new climate pact
Green agenda profitable: B.C. Premier
B.C.’s green plan endorsed by top climate scientist
Dysfunction – Feb 18
Arctic melting, revealing new sources of oil and gas
NASA climatologist on suppression of science: 5 years from now, we’ll know less
UNICEF: U.S., British children worst off in industrialized world
Court overturns 22-year sentence for SUV fire
Climate policy – Feb 14
Global warming: Get used to it
Nature: Lifting the taboo on adaptation
Investors turn up heat over carbon emissions
Call for shareholder votes on climate change
Push for new climate treaty intensifies
Peak oil thoughts – Feb 14
Homer-Dixon interview: crash inevitable?
Chat with Dmitry Orlov
Post-petroleum stress disorder on the Archers
THE Progressive crises: global warming and PO
Hybrids, biofuels and other false idols
Climate – Feb 11
CSIRO’s horror climate forecast for Australia
Reports on warming lag behind the science
The new statistical rhetoric of climate change
Activists
rising to the climate challenge
Climate activism – Feb 9
After the breakthrough: what do we do now?
World’s churches rally to cause
Book review: George Monbiot’s Heat
Conspiracy of silence on climate change
United States – Feb 7
Cheney’s fund manager attacks…Cheney (US energy policy)
From Afghanistan to Iraq: Connecting the dots
Going for broke On climate change
Image of change: not Toyota Prius, but the Berlin Wall crashing down
