US & UK – Feb 28
Wendell Berry and Bill McKibben call for mass civil disobedience against coal
A global Green Deal
Labour – These fossil fools
Coal
ODAC Newsletter – 27 Feb
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
Peak oil, coal, supplies – Feb 25
Non OPEC-12 Oil Production Peaked in 2004
“A Farm for the Future”… essential viewing
Sovereign wealth eyes move into commodities, oil
Are Reserves of the Largest US Coal Field Overstated by 50%?
Energy Security First (Canada)
The conservation imperative: energy limits to growth and the path to sustainability – part II
This content is no longer available. It was a pre-publication draft of a section of “Energy Limits to Growth,” a report that will be published in expanded form by Post Carbon Institute and International Forum on globalization in May.
ODAC Newsletter – 20 Feb
A weekly round-up from a UK perspective.
United Kingdom – Feb 20
Scottish greenwash: Dirty claims on clean coal
Is it selfish to have more than two children?
Dumped in Africa: Britain’s toxic waste
Why I’ll get arrested to stop the burning of coal
On March 2, environmentalist Bill McKibben will join demonstrators who plan to march on a coal-fired power plant in Washington D.C. In this article for Yale Environment 360, he explains why he’s ready to go to jail to protest the continued burning of coal.
Coal – Feb 16
NYT: Is America Ready to Quit Coal?
James Hansen: Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them
Are we approaching peak coal?
ODAC Newsletter – 13 Feb
Weekly round up from a UK perspective.
Reality Report: Ecological Economics (rebroadcast)
If an economic system is built on myths that aim to defy the laws of physics and ecology we should not be surprised to see it fail. Perhaps we can use this crisis to begin asking the right questions and redesign with human needs and planetary realities in mind. The Reality Report interviews Professor Joshua Farley of the Gund Institute of Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont.
Reality Report: Michael Klare and the geopolitics of resource consumption
In this show, Jason Bradford and Professor Michael Klare discuss the geopolitics of resource competition. Nations are engaging in a dangerous zero sum game as they jostle over finite supplies of fossil fuels, including the positioning of opposing advanced weapons systems in unstable parts of the world.
Electricity – Feb 12
Does a Big Economy Need Big Power Plants?
Small is ugly if it means we keep burning coal
Big Gav’s smart grid round-up
