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
Culture & Behavior
Solutions & sustainability – March 4
Getting over the cash and carry mentality
Bruce Sterling: My dot-green future is here
Activist hopes Missoula can break free from petroleum’s yoke
My Purim-spiel
Conserve magazine – “the new voice of doing more with less”
To meet the need for news and commentary on perhaps the greatest challenges facing the United States today – human-caused global warming and a projected energy shortage – Conserve Magazine was launched today.
The failure of reason
As we approach the peak of world oil production, and proposed solutions proliferate, the social momentum of the industrial world moves the other way. The connection between the two sides of this paradox may be closer than it appears.
Dysfunction – Feb 28
World Bank: Deforestation Good for Growth
Slavery returns to Britain on large scale
Inadequate power supply killing cement co
Peak oil – Feb 28
Colin Campbell on the Isle of Man
TOD: That cubic mile
Kunstler critiques urban planning, oil shortage
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 27
Challenges and advances in Solar Cooking
Cleaner consumption and the low-carbon life
Making green computing even greener
Local Currencies: Replacing Scarcity with Trust
Report of change
Lost in the bush 40 minutes from Auckland
Economics – Feb 27
China Stocks Sink 8.8% on Crackdown Fears
Asian Stocks Fall after China’s rout
U.S. stocks plunge to worst 1-day drop since 2001
The silliest possible way to save the earth
Perhaps it is just sour grapes that I have no inventing skills, and thus am doomed to poverty and obscurity, but Richard Branson’s $25 million climate change prize reminds me of the time our refrigerator broke down.
Relocalisation – acting locally on global issues
Crises and large scale challenges create fear in many but inspire others to act. What gives relocalization greater value than many other responses is its broader benefit to society, especially to local farmers, producers, community enterprise and businesses.
Peak oil – Feb 23
Kunstler talk: “America, think downscale!”
Climate change, peak oil and nuclear war
Study sees harmful hunt for extra oil
Climate Change, sabre tooth tigers and devaluing the future
Dysfunction – Feb 22
Children’s TV ‘is linked to cancer, autism, dementia’
Scientific evidence: TV rots brain, ruins body
Malaysia to confine foreign workers
Endangered languages encode plant and animal knowledge
