Energy reduction – Jan 10
Home energy use gets a ‘smackdown’ on reality TV
Fluorescents coming – any other bright ideas?
Digital tools help users save energy
Utilities amp up push to slash energy use
Consumption & Demand
Cities – Jan 2
Edinburgh city initiative on ‘peak oil’
TIME: How green is your neighborhood?
Cities and energy consumption
Food & agriculture – Jan 2
The perfect casserole: just add badger
Supermarket flies fish 5,000 miles from country where millions are starving
The invisible ingredient in every kitchen: heat
Sharon Astyk: Future of the quik ‘n easy meal
Our stuff – Dec 28
Your stuff: if it isn’t grown, it must be mined
Plastics provoke ‘wrap rage’
‘Paper or plastic?’ The eco-friendly answer is ‘neither – reusable’
Christmas lights spark concern in Switzerland
Population, consumption drive global climate change and environmental degradation
The impact of population and consumption is so profound that they may outpace any potential environmental benefits from industrial modernization and improving technologies.
Tis the season to be shopping
Debating holiday consumerism
Time to call it a wrap for wrapping paper?
Boomers discover that it’s easy being green
Census: America, the consumerist
China – Dec 19
Can the world survive China’s headlong rush to emulate the American way of life?
As China goes, so goes global warming
Eco-city in China gives off aroma of green – money
In China, farming fish in toxic waters
China says it will run short of water by 2030
Why are Canadians the world’s energy pigs?
Canada is rich, big and cold, and we share two borders with the United States. Those factors explain why we are the world’s energy pigs, but they do not justify it.
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 18
Energetic students empower Cal Poly
Peak-proof music
Ted Trainer’s Transition Q&A
You’d better (not) shop around
Bottled water boycotts: Back-to-the-tap movement
Deep thought – Dec 18
Interview with Ronald Cooke (Cultural Economist)
Albert Bartlett interview (population)
Some convenient truths
2007: The Great Unraveling begins
Astyk: The best books about nearly everything
Monbiot: Leave fossil fuels in the ground
Agriculture: the price of adaptation
It’s becoming increasingly recognized that today’s industrial agriculture will stop being viable once cheap abundant fossil fuel becomes a thing of the past. Less often recognized are adaptations already taking place that will allow more sustainable agricultural systems to take its place – but at a price.
The Story Of Stuff: free video unmasks consumer culture
A new short film released today online takes viewers on a provocative tour of our consumer-driven culture — from resource extraction to iPod incineration — exposing the real costs of this use-it and lose-it approach to stuff.
