Climate science – Feb 5
You’re getting warmer (review of IPCC)
A disaster epic (in slo-mo)
Phaeton’s reins: The human hand in climate change
Global-warming report gets U.S. emphasis
Global warming poses health threats
Health
Food & agriculture – Jan 28
UK Soil Assn: Preparing for a post-peak oil food and farming future (Podcasts)
Soil Assn considers sanctions on air freight
Michael Pollard essay: “Unhappy Meals”
Food & agriculture – Jan 26
O, pioneers in Pasadena (urban homesteading)
Heinberg predicts a local food renaissance
BBC: Eat like an ape, get healthy
British supermarkets going green
Deconstructing dinner: thought for food
Food or fuel in future?
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 22
Where to go if you want to live to be 100
Newsweek: 7 ways to save the world
Could smart urban design keep people fit and trim?
Mud Pies and Dunce Caps: Part 1 – Health
We are experiencing an epidemic rise in childhood diseases. What are the implications for their survival as we slide past peak oil and go into permanent energy decline?
The ethical challenges of healthcare and peak oil
It is particularly likely that ethical dilemmas will arise during the redesign of the healthcare system as a response to peak oil. This is because there will be a conflict between what is best for society as a whole, versus what is best for the individual.
Dysfunction – Jan 17
Spin the (water) bottle
UAE beats Americans’ environmental harm
Clean air or TV: Where will Asia find more energy?
‘Spaceship Earth’ sculpture collapses
Overwork costly to environment
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 17
‘Ethical pharmaceuticals’ could change world politics?
Unconsumption
What’s the key to bright green cities?
Yes! Building a just, sustainable compassionate world
New quest in British politics: public happiness
Father of energy efficiency to get Fermi Award
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 15
100-mile diet: local food strategies
Never too old to save the earth
Local living economies
“Who am I?” in a post-petroleum world
Linking Land Use Planning and the Food Environment
An emerging issue in the smart growth field is the link between a healthy food environment and good land use planning.
Peak oil – Jan 7
Oil: fast-vanishing drug the world can’t live without
An almost friendly update on world oil
Scientific American and the silent lie
Bartlett to introduce PO and energy bills to Congress
Of leeches & midwives?
Predicting global health trends: why peak oil matters
We need to know how vulnerable our current medical systems are to oil scarcity and what we can do to reduce that vulnerability… To achieve those aims, we need a “Hirsch Report” for both public health and acute (hospital) care.
