Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Rob Hopkins on the transition movement
Oregon peak oil group
Sheri Liao, Global Village Beijing: “We have to change our lifestyle”
In trash-strewn Italy, a city cleans up
Green energy town proposal in Ireland
The Vatican to become world’s first carbon neutral sovereign state
Astyk: Pick up your hat (is it time yet?)
Choosing to live the good and sustainable life
Taking action in the face of collapse
Green future demands a radical shift in lifestyles for British
Lessons of history help the future
The World War II home front was the most important and broadly participatory green experiment in U.S. history.
For a year five experts ditched theory for practice, running a Welsh farm using 17th Century methods. (What our great- great- great- … grandparents can teach us about saving the world.)
“Even if you agree with a given forecast, you have to worry about the real possibility of significant divergence from it,” writes Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. How might he apply this to the peak oil issue?
The man making the world’s worst polluter clean up its act
Warming strikes a note in China
China vs. Earth
Millions to work for climate protection
Live Earth pledges
Why rock won’t save the planet
Could this be the global-warming generation?
July 4th’s civic rituals across America celebrate the triumph of pragmatic politics in a very different age. Do the events of 1776 have a lesson for us on the edge of peak oil?
“If our public health and health-delivering institutions are to adapt to major natural environmental changes in the 21st century, they must develop a cooperative, conceptually inventive and integrated response to global warming and peak oil.” (A working issue brief being circulated to health departments and hospital administrators across the country.)
LiveEarth pledge (two versions)
Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology
Steady state economy (Brian Czech intvw)
Web site helps you find energy-use profile
Prospects for a biofuels industry in Australia
Humans use or abuse quarter of all energy from plants
Fuelling a carbon crisis
The Fed’s role in the Bear Stearns Meltdown
Got money?
Brakes fail on housing stress
Namibians stoop under fuel prices
World’s rich keep getting richer
