Transport – Aug 21
China’s new middle class in love with cars – big cars
Less driving is more cash for Portland
India: Plastic car will be world’s cheapest
Trains on track to play key role in bioeconomy
Zimbabwe air transport sector hits turbulence
Consumption & Demand
Food & agriculture – Aug 11
Climate change challenges gardeners to plant smarter
Scientific American: Hello perennial agriculture!
Popcorn packaging – is it edible?
Ethical consumption: consumer driven or political?
“If ethical consumption campaigns are to succeed they need to transform the infrastructures of every day consumption rather than focusing on changing individual consumer behaviour”.
Water – Aug 8
Bottled water: the triumph of marketing finally gets the scrutiny it deserves
Queensland may continue outdoor watering
Renewables & energy demand –
Aug 8
Net-metering and solar panels
Energy search goes underground in Basel
Making data centers greener
New front for campus activism: energy efficiency
Water – Aug 5
NYT: In praise of tap water
A river ran through it: Australia’s Murray
The emerging global freshwater crisis
Lake Ontario & St. Lawrence River after PO
Post-peak dam maintenance, or lack thereof
Electricity demand – Aug 5
Smart meters, dumb response
Businesses paid not to use power
Kenya: Darkness in the Slums
Vietnam keen on Chinese electricity
Black Google power saving figures are wrong
The name is blog, peak oil blog
High rollers trying to cut consumption
My name is Randy… and I support Al Franken
What about the Third World?
Rock music for when the grid goes down: Celtic battle music
Green China and young China (1)
We [in China] are widely recognised as having achieved an economic miracle, but we have paid an enormous price. Now is the time for a fair and sustainable model of growth.
(Pan Yue is deputy director of China’s State Environmental Protection Administration)
The green consumer – July 28
Monbiot: Ethical shopping is just another way of showing how rich you are
Yes, we can shop our way to a cleaner Earth
Open season on ethical consumers?
Can ‘green chic’ save the planet?
Pressure builds to ban plastic bags
Turning the tide against bottled water
Solutions & sustainability – July 28
They might look like hobbits’ dwellings…
Radical Finns persevere off BC coast
Everyday living – unplugged
Juicing down for global warming
A failure of mimesis
Are there lessons for the peak oil movement in the cultural schism that has opened up in American society?
