More, more, more – Feb 10
Retail therapy: Does sadness mean spending?
My cortex made me buy it
Slow sex: Moving toward informed pleasure
The perpetual state of desire that we call ‘human nature’
The ecological economy
Consumption & Demand
Back up the rabbit hole
At several points in the last quarter century, due to a brief constellation of short-term factors, petroleum prices dropped to levels lower in constant dollars than ever before in history. Collective decisions made on the assumption that such prices were normal need to be revisited in a hurry as more realistic energy costs reassert themselves.
Deep thought – Feb 5
I am human, I’m American, and I’m an addict…
The Tata Nano strikes back – Does Jeavons’ Paradox apply to productivity, too?
Jeffersonian agrarianism and the question of slavery
A material world
On Monbiot’s population comments
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 5
The slow life picks up speed
Recycling to a fashion
Green can be inexpensive, with a little work
Motivated by a tax, Irish spurn plastic bags
Demand – Feb 1
Go to sleep early to save power – S.A. minister
New ‘green’ energy from dirty sources (efficiency)
Self-denial was made for me
Chinese on their environmentalism: ‘You buy our cheap goods. Don’t blame us’
Food & agriculture – Jan 30
Top chefs on avoiding food waste
Price freezes squeeze Chinese farmers
Eco-Farm: California dreaming
Meat is a climate crime = more industrialized farming?
Agriculture is changing the chemistry of the Mississippi River
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 30
Sheryl Crow’s peak oil protest song
Cheap at twice the price: sustainable fashion
Europe thinks alternatively in quest to go ‘green’
High oil prices boost energy efficiency
Fuel squeeze – Jan 25
Nepal withdraws fuel price hike
S. Africa could face ‘huge’ liquid fuel shortage
Electricity shortage halts SA gold mines
Record power shortage hits China
In oil-rich Alaska, an energy crunch
Energy poverty
Waste – Jan 24
From toilet to tap
Whole Foods sacks plastic bags
Ontario to end ban on clotheslines
Car plague – Jan 23
Creating a car culture in China
Saudi Arabia about to allow women to drive; car industry expects windfall
Building the new ‘people’s car’ in India
Canadians’ dependence on cars rising
Detroit car show- An unconvincing shade of green
How the coming home heating crisis could threaten the grid
What will people who rely on natural gas for home heating–and that includes a huge number of people in the United States–do when the natural gas crisis hits? They might well turn to electricity in a big way.
The peak oil crisis: We are starting to dim
The world may shortly be divided into countries that have general access to electricity and those who don’t.
