Climate – Oct 4
KyotoPlus: Escaping the Climate Trap
Climate inaction ‘has high cost’
Global warming will threaten millions say climate scientists
Coal said top enemy in fighting global warming
Culture & Behavior
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 3
GE develops hybrid lightbulb
Eco-mags go high gloss
West Coast Green – building is key
The language of green is universal…or is it?
In the battle to be green, the human factor works wonders
Climate – Oct 2
‘One degree and we’re done for’
Blasting A/C in the Arctic
Ecological upheaval on the edge of the ice
Cost of saving the planet: a year’s growth
Accounting for climate change in Northern forests
The population bomb is ticking again
Scenarios are dire, but solutions may be surprisingly easy.
The infrastructure of the future
The Italian infrastructure may just be one the best adapted for the energy-constrained future into which we are now heading.
Environment – Sept 29
Shaming the hydro hogs
In India, water crisis means foul sludge
Forests worth far more alive than dead
Beetles trigger gold rush in B.C.
Mystery of methane levels in 90s seems solved
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 29
Billy goat not gruff about his responsibilities
Urban farming: city pickers
A summer spent killing—and eating—Seattle’s small game
Economics: avoiding the Y2K fallacy
Discussions of the impact of peak oil on the global economy have been bedeviled by the insistence that the only alternative to business as usual is complete collapse. There are other possibilities.
Climate – Sept 22
McKibben: “Bush’s climate plan will kick-start new era of bargaining over planet’s future”
UK”s Beckett to warn UN on CC
Al Gore interview (video)
Bloomberg, Schwarzenegger point fingers
Community holds vigil for rain
Sea levels are rising faster than predicted
Nitrous oxide – no laughing matter for forests
Environment – Sept 21
US droughts may eclipse Dust Bowl
Fires Sweep Indonesian Borneo and Sumatra
Illegal logging costs billions
China taps into foreign water solutions
Food and agriculture – Sept 21
UK Agriculture, Organic Farming and Relocalisation
Virtual Water Trade and Water Footprints
On India’s Farms, a Plague of Suicide
An Interview with Dennis Meadows – co-author of ‘Limits to Growth’.
I was very lucky at ASPO 5 to get to interview Dennis Meadows, one of the authors of what is probably the most famous environmental book in history, “Limits to Growth”.
