Mortgage meltdown – Mar 25
Mortgage crisis overwhelming credit counselors
Foreclosures Force Suburbs to Fight Blight
Subprime lenders push back
Council tenants fall victim to predatory lenders
US Federal Reserve: We could have done more
Consumption & Demand
The Challenge of Affluence
An Oxford scholar has published a definitive work on why we’re not happier, even with rising levels of wealth.
McKibben – Happiness and the deep economy
Bill McKibben has been championing the themes of global warming, peak oil and sustainability for years. In his recently released book, Deep Economy, he focuses on relocalization and a rethinking of our conception of happiness.
Transport – Mar 22
The Auto Empire Rolls On
Probe launched after thousands trapped on Sydney trains
EU Open skies pact to worsen climate change
Parking plan is ‘discriminatory’
Faith schools fight to keep free transport
Transport – Mar 19
High Speed Passenger Rail Act, Draft
Highway speed limit plan irks Germans
Return of the Electric Car
Transport issues prompt voters rethink
A hoarders guide to the end of the world
Mention the word “hoarder” in a meeting of organizers and a collective shiver will run down our spines. A hoarding client’s clutter brings us head to head with a vision that is out of balance. Whether a result of unconscious compulsions, chronic shopping, expectations that don’t add up or an inability to reconcile cause with effect, it all comes to bear on the limits of space
Garbage & stuff – March 16
A short history of what man covets
most – STUFF
The end of garbage
Britons throw out a third of all food
Kovattana: A hoarders guide to the end of the world
The DESERTEC concept
Got a plan? TREC do, it involves concentrated solar power and high voltage DC transmission, and they want your help to get it into public view.
Biofuels – Mar 10
Gore Urged to Put Brake on Biofuel Production
Demand for corn driving up meat prices
Livestock Industry Testifies Before Congress In Food Vs. Fuel Debate
Success derails biofuels bandwagon
Ghawar Is Dead!
Perhaps we should be mourning after the world’s largest oilfield, rather than dead celebrity Anna Nicole Smith, for Peak Oil means the death of the American dream, not just one queen of kitsch.
Solutions & sustainability – March 4
Getting over the cash and carry mentality
Bruce Sterling: My dot-green future is here
Activist hopes Missoula can break free from petroleum’s yoke
My Purim-spiel
A review of 2006 EIA Data; Expectations for Year Ahead
Oil prices set new records and the industry maintained a historically high level of activity in 2006. Energy agencies issued consensus forecasts that production would rise. Yet crude oil production was down and total liquids production was flat. The economists should be shaking in their boots.
