Dysfunction – Aug 5
When will the next bridge collapse?
Bridge collapse spotlights America’s deferred maintenance
Were bison one of globalization’s first victims?
We of the Neverland (childishness is in fashion)
Culture & Behavior
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
Deep thought – Aug 3
Harvard Business Review: Six rules for effective forecasting
The island of Naura- poster child for resource depletion
Focus on carbon ‘missing the point’
The terrifying prospect of a post-oil future: no more ready meals, traffic jams or lonely nights in front of TV
JM Greer’s fiction about the deindustrialzed future
Green China and young China (2)
Environmental protection needs to pay attention to issues of culture and ethics, says Pan Yue. In the concluding part of his two-part essay, Pan calls on youth to step forward and embrace idealism once again.
Climate: Asia awakes – Aug 2
“Asian Brown Cloud” speeds melt of Himalaya glaciers
Siberian forest fires due to climate change
Pakistan: uncontrolled population blamed for climate change
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)
Permaculture and peak oil – Aug 1
David Holmgren on peak oil, energy descent and permaculture (video)
Online permaculture talks: “The Era of Post Carbon Transition”
Resilience, oil, entropy – July 31
Diesel-driven bee slums and impotent turkeys:
the case for resilience
Jeff Vail: Losing our balance?
Kunstler: Vanishing point
Biofuels – July 31
David Blume’s Alcohol Can Be A Gas book
LS9 promises ‘renewable petroleum’
Poison plant could help to cure the planet
The ethanol effect
Sex, rock ‘n’ roll and global warming
If the Live Earth concerts are to continue, they ought to evolve to serve the transformation not just away from consumer society but toward a culture where we dance and sing and find our bling in things that are healthy for us and the planet.
Peak oil – July 31
Gail the Actuary: Peak oil – what’s ahead?
What would you pay for a barrel of oil? $100? $200?
Sir David King’s view on peak oil
TOD Canada on the financial crisis
Upside down economics
The entire economy stands on the shoulders of agriculture, forestry, and mining (especially the extraction of oil, gas, coal and uranium) and on the utilities that deliver the energy mined in usable form.
