Sad – July 3
For poor families, a burden of too many pets
How did it come to this? (eco-sabotage trials)
The new age of ignorance (about science)
Culture & Behavior
Our place on Earth – July 3
How many people have ever lived on Earth?
Human greed takes lion’s share of solar energy
Empty plates tomorrow
De-consumption – July 2
Privatizing responsibility: green consumerism
NY Times: buying into the green movement
Astyk: Use it up, wear it out, make it do, do without
Simple things that can really nake a difference
Rich world’s consumerism may cause African famines
Deceptive landscape
My pleasant walk through these leafy streetscapes is deceptive. For all its orderliness this neighborhood generates enormous entropy that is hidden from the viewer’s eyes. This has implications for our political life because these are the kinds of neighborhoods across the United States from which communities draw their leaders and in which turnout is heaviest during election time.
Population & environment – June 30
This planet ain’t big enough for the 6,500,000,000 of us
UN warns urban populations set to double
American Institute of Biological Sciences on population, environment
The carbon cycle: Implications for climate change and Congress (gov’t report)
The media awake – June 30
America could do with a few feral beasts
Investigative journalism and the Washington elite
Moyers on Murdoch
Peak oil – June 30
ConocoPhillips sees some strains in the system
End Of Suburbia interview
The end of the world (as we know it)
Biofuel pioneer: Addressing the oil crisis
ASPO-USA: The peak oil tango
Peak market economics
Media
Newsreader’s anger over Paris story (rips it up on camera)
The Murdoch Factor
Wall St Journal staff stay away in protest against Murdoch takeover plans
Putting another log on the fire
So I got my first internet based marital proposition from someone in federal prison (minimum security, I was assured!) the other day.
Völkerwanderung
The relative stability of national and cultural boundaries in recent centuries could easily become a thing of the past as industrial civilization unravels. Planning for the deindustrial future needs to keep the possibility of mass migration in mind.
Transport – Jun 25
Dubai’s hot new buses
Netherlands trials free public transport at hotspots
Manchester expands security scheme for cyclists
Firms turn up heat on SNP in bid to save trams
More US commuters drive solo
Drivers unfazed by new energy bill
Climate – June 23
Global warming may uproot millions
Darfur heralds era of wars triggered by climate change
Tropical, not Canadian, forests absorb greenhouse gases
