Food & agriculture – Feb 7
Vegetarian is the new Prius
Dale Alan Pfeiffer on eating fossil fuels
Deconstructing dinner: Farming in the city
Cloned food items won’t come with warnings
Health
Transport – Feb 6
For Teenagers, the Car Is the Danger Zone
Subdivisions in remote areas increase cost county services
China expands ship-rail transport
Why Don’t You Walk More?
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
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?
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?
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?
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.
