Emerald cities – Aug 25
Environmental history of Seattle
China eco-cities update
Culture & Behavior
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 25
Altar call for true believers
‘Right to Dry’ movement: the clothesline makes a comeback
Sharon Astyk on cutting your laundry energy
Health, climate, water – Aug 24
WHO says sex, farming, growing population gives diseases breeding ground
Pollution causes 40 percent of deaths worldwide, study finds
Sea rise outpacing forecasts due To Antarctica
Queensland fast-tracks emergency water supply for worst case scenario
Deep thought – Aug 23
Urgency and global warming: Interview with physicist Martin I. Hoffert
Topsoil loss – causes, effects and implications
Tipping points in the Earth system
Peak oil – Aug 22
Matthew Simmons interview: All the canaries have stopped singing
The social effects of peak oil
Dale Allen Pfeiffer takes a closer look at Escape from Suburbia
Jay Hanson: Can American government survive “peak oil”?
Gregory Green, director of Escape from Suburbia
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 23
When the sun is shining, break out the solar oven
Slow is beautiful
Building the climate camp (video)
How to push the oil levers in the wrong direction
If crude oil is becoming scarce, the first reaction often is, “where can we find more of it?”
Peak phosphorus – the bottom line
What is new and controversial in the article is the assertion that we have passed the point of “Peak phosphorus” – the point of maximum production and consumption of phosphorus. This would mean that over time phosphorus will become more difficult to obtain, and more expensive. This would be a major problem for society, since without sufficient supplies of phosphorus we will have difficulty feeding ourselves.
Deep thought – Aug 15
Offshoring emissions, historical carbon and climate imperialism
Distributed generation of Amory Lovins’ brainpower
Ecological economist Herman E. Daly on climate change: From ‘know how’ to ‘do now’
Singing the nation electric: post-oil democracy
Scrabbling around for plan B
The bubble mentality that led to the current chaos in the world’s credit markets has uncomfortable parallels to the way the industrial world treats its energy resources. Will the fossil fuel-driven boom that has created modern industrial society turn out in retrospect to be akin to a speculative bubble?
11th hour and counting – Aug 14
New DiCaprio film takes on environmental crises
Carbon-free and nuclear-free: a roadmap for U.S. energy policy
Curing our “Global Fever”: William H. Calvin
Peak phosphorus: readings
Background on the phosphorus problem and possible responses.
