Transport – May 13
“Car brain” confesses, pleads: ‘make driving annoying and expensive’
Public purse props up fossil fuel industries in Australia
Monbiot: Air traffic out of control
Flights reach record levels despite warnings over climate change
Culture & Behavior
Climate – May 13
Warming triggers ‘alarming’ retreat of Himalayan glaciers
James Lovelock’s strange bedfellows (skeptics)
Nature: A clear direction (the IPCC and geoengineering)
Is this what it takes to save the world? (geoengineering)
The sustainable marriage
I’ve heard over and over about marriages struggling when partners have different ideas about the right thing to do about peak oil/sustainability/climate change. There are real and serious reasons that people are better off going into hard times with stable marriages and good support systems.
Dysfunction – May 10
Texas House favors gas tax break
40 percent of babies watch TV, study finds
Review of Consumed by Benjamin Barber
Peak oil – May 10
Oil minister: Saudis may not need to raise oil capacity after 2009
Nigeria escalation
Wildcats & tigers: China’s oil acquisition strategy
Peak Oil as a behavioral problem (scholarly publication)
Climate – May 10
Dismay over nuclear ‘solution’ to climate problem
NASA warns climate change could cook Atlantans (110 degrees?)
China says threat from global warming ‘urgent’
Climate change issue heats Capitol Hill
Lovelock: Fiddling with figures while the Earth burns
Greens praise Murdoch’s News Corp climate pledge
Solutions & sustainability – May 10
21 Worldchanging principles in 21 days
Astyk:
Starting the riot for austerity
Lester Brown:
Momentum grows to “Ban the bulb”
For a warmer future, Australia employs Aboriginal wisdom
Religion and peak oil: The next spirituality
Whatever religion or combination of religions rises to prominence as industrial society slides down the far side of Hubbert’s peak, the religious dimension will very likely play a massive role in the way today’s society’s adapt to tomorrow’s world of harsh limits and harsher choices.
Cornucopian catechism: Notes from Pittsburgh
Trying to bring peak oil to the hometown. An example of the Semmelweis Reflex.
Food preservation and democracy
Not only is independence worth striving for because it is good for us, our nation and our families, but also because someday we may depend on these skills and knowledge – and right now we might have a better country if we did this.
Solutions & sustainability – May 8
Moving New York City toward sustainable energy independence
Rob Hopkins (Transition Totnes) interview
Bill Rees (“eco-footprint”) on pushing the planet to its limit
Peak oil blindness
American society, as an autopoietic system, by its very energy-intense design, is inclined toward blindness of certain stimuli in its environment… It is well known that any large-scale organization as a system adjusts slowly to alterations in its environment. This suggests that there may be more promise in correcting our vision at the micro level.
