Climate – March 17
Arctic could have iceless summers by 2100
Warmest winter on record
Alberta is Canada’s top GHG polluter
Climate change ended Angkor
Clean coal technology ‘a lost opportunity’
Culture & Behavior
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 16
Profiles in municipal sustainability
Company fuels Second Harvest during Alberta’s fuel crisis
Earth: Home sweet home (animation)
Blogs can top the presses
Environment – Mar 16
Biodiversity extinction crisis looms says renowned biologist
U.S., Europe show gains in forests; rest of world loses ground
Destruction of Forests in Developing World
‘Out of Control’
Fishermen alarmed as sand closes Entrance port
Climate disasters: three obstacles to doing anything
When there is such a clear disjunction between knowledge and action, there must be obstacles in the socio-political arena to explain this. In fact, there are three quite powerful obstacles to action: the interests of producers/ entrepreneurs, the interests of less wealthy nations, and the attitudes of you and me.
The Amphetamine of the Intellectuals
This second part of “Round in Circles: a review of David C. Korten’s The Great Turning” looks into the intellectual roots of Korten’s proposed solution for the crisis of industrial society. Will a change of political leadership and ideology actually solve our problems, or is something else going on?
Ticking time bombs and last-minute escapes
Much of the public has up until recently unreflectively embraced the idea that all emergencies will be met with unparalleled heroism that leads to the right solution–no matter how hastily and tardily conceived
Population – March 10
Fact or fiction?: living people outnumber the dead
The motherhood experiment
Medical, social problems cause of high death rate in Russia – Putin
Environment – Mar 10
Madison Declaration on Mercury Pollution
Professor fights against plastic
Devastated system dying of thirst
The Bio-DaVersity code
Thinking climate change – Mar 9
How to think differently about climate
Kim Stanley Robinson: The anti-Crichton
Sports Illustrated covers climate change
Epidemiologist: A cost of climate change that can’t be counted in dollars – survival
Climate science – Mar 9
Preview of IPCC Working Group II
Climate impact more extensive than thought
“African” diseases pushed north
Refrigeration system for the Earth’s oceans threatens to break down
Climate change brews ocean trouble
Round in Circles: a review of David C. Korten’s The Great Turning
David Korten’s 2006 book The Great Turning has been hailed as a groundbreaking work for progressives seeking to deal with peak oil and other aspects of the predicament of industrial civilization. Is Korten’s theory the panacea some peak oil advocates suggest, or does it contain a different agenda? First of a three-part series.
Climate – March 5
UK plans to cut CO2 doomed – scientists
Hurricane heat
India’s ‘wet desert’ hit by climate change
WaPo talks collapse: Climate-change precipice
