Biofuels: A Disaster in the Making
Why is a union of NGOs, Indigenous Peoples Organizations and farmers’ movements calling for the suspension of biofuel subsidies?
Activism
Climate’s last chance
With a world facing as grave a threat as it faced in 1938, [Australian PM] John Howard is quickly becoming the Chamberlain of the chequebook, while a climate-change Churchill is nowhere to be seen in Australian politics. I sincerely hope I’m wrong, because this Government and the one that follows it may well be the last in Australian history to have the chance to avert a climate disaster.
Climate – Oct 25
Green Left: Global warming: looking beyond Kyoto /
Kent Council’s 12 ways to combat climate change /
Climate change ‘will threaten Britain’s water supply’ /
Baffin Island a global warming hot spot
New hippies are fighting to replace oil
The generation of activists who fought for civil rights, against an unpopular war, and started the environmental movement is poised for one last hurrah, one more attempt to cure the ills of American society. They’re older now, and perhaps a little wiser. They’re settled into their communities, some of them already retired. And they’re scared as hell about the lives facing their children and grandchildren once the oil runs out.
Oakland aims to be oil independent by 2020
The city council of Oakland, California yesterday unanimously passed legislation, inspired by Sweden, making Oakland the first city in the U.S. to aim for oil independence by 2020.
China – Oct 17
China’s student activist movement
Energy security and sustainability in China
China to start filling 2nd oil reserve
Peak oil – Oct 17
Lies, damned lies and government oil production forecasts?
Energy depletion & the US descent into fascism
Video: imPOssible mission
Energy policy – Sept 21
Saudi wary of “green” policies to reduce oil consumption
Alaska astir over plan to tap its NG
Bangladesh faces energy dilemma: coal?
Fuel diversification: coal to liquids
Clinton reads Heinberg on peak oil
“I borrowed a book from [Bill Clinton] that he had just read—The Party’s Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies, by Richard Heinberg, not exactly summer reading—and it was full of underlinings and what looked like the most serious undergraduate’s markings, with lots of exclamation points.”
Climate policy – Aug 31
McKibben: On a global-warming march
GW impacts on World Bank programmes
Investment & abrupt climate change
UK climate change protesters feel the heat
UK conservatives push market approach on climate
The Renewed Activist
As an environmental activist at the peak of industrial civilization I’ve always felt like the underdog. I’ve imagined myself as a street-protesting, petition-signing, door-to-door knocking David trying to bring down a money-wielding, corporate-clad, government-shielded Goliath.
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 6
Argentina’s recuperadas build a cooperative future /
Other Economies are Possible! /
The Buy-Nothing Year Begins /
Car Free Cities :: Do Such Mythical Places Exist?
