Solutions & sustainability – Feb 22
Homemade hydropower lights up Tajikistan
Incandescent bulb ban welcomed
Running the numbers: art with a message
Consumption & Demand
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 20
How to create an efficient fossil-fuel-free economy
Sustainability Network newsletter
Australia to ban incandescent bulbs
IT goes green
Energy demand – Feb 18
In energy electricity conservation, California sees the light
Net uses 1+ percent of US electricity
US servers use more electricity than color TVs
Internet claims role in fighting global warming
Coal – Feb 17
U.N. OKs CO2 injection into ocean floor
Coal can’t be clean – Flannery
Montana must turn coal from black to ‘green’
Rival firms dispute coal gasification
Enough with the freakin’ bathroom metaphor already!
Embedded in this argument is “dignity is equivalent to my not having to share.” I actually believe the contrary – that real dignity begins at the point that we recognize that other people have rights to the bathroom too, and find a means of acomodating them.
Transport – Feb 6
For Teenagers, the Car Is the Danger Zone
Subdivisions in remote areas increase cost county services
China expands ship-rail transport
Why Don’t You Walk More?
Energy conservation – Feb 5
Chavez takes up energy conservation
Turkey: It’s “you” who will save the world
War and skis
Arabs urged to use energy judiciously
No quick fix to Eskom energy crisis
Home economics, sustainability and the “mommy wars”
We have created not only physical dependencies on cheap energy, but psychological ones, so that no matter how much harm our dependencies do, we now fear to live any other way.
Young professionals and peak oil
Young Professionals are vulnerable to the shocks that Peak Oil will bring to our society, but we are also well equipped to tackle energy descent, perhaps more realistically than others who simplistically advocate alternative fuels and vague technological fixes.
Biofuels – 28 Jan
Brazils president urges US to invest in biofuels in poorer countries
Understanding the corn ethanol EROI divide
US corn exports to fall as ethanol use rises
As corn price rises, so could food bills
Expanded Biofuel Production Expected to Drive Up Food Prices
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 26
Street legal mass transport Flintstones-style
How to be good (to yourself)
Unions see greenbacks in ‘green’ future
Real-time energy feedback technology
Daydreaming improves thinking
Dysfunction – Jan 25
Technological revolution is 100 years dead
Infected by affluenza (and mental illness)
Wealth top priority for today’s youth
Saving the planet: empty gestures
