Urban design – Nov 5
Our ailing communities: car-dependent suburbia is bad for your health /
Where will everybody live? /
Kunstler: Gawn south
Health
Transport – Oct 25
Our appetite for food boosts consumption – of gasoline /
Gas-guzzlers face £450 parking fee /
US in a jam over what to do about traffic /
Green taxes on air travel ‘would boost the economy’
Public Health: Slow Motion Disaster
Collapsing public health forms one of the least recognized and most worrisome dimensions of the peak oil predicament. In a world without cheap abundant oil, the return of infectious diseases as a major factor in everyday life will be almost impossible to prevent.
Peak Oil and Healthcare Relocalisation
Dr Paul Roth explores some of the general principles that might combine to form a sustainable and ethical health care system.
Why we need a healthcare Hirsch report
A medical ‘Hirsch report’ would provide useful information for planning and implementing mitigation programs, allowing us to manage the significant expected impacts of oil scarcity and energy descent on healthcare systems.
Agriculture (food & fuel)-Sept 10
Our big fat world
Redesigning crops to harvest fuel
Kew boss: the dangers of biofuels
Briefing for the Descent
Arguments for a survivalist response to Peak Oil are becoming common, but depend on improbable scenarios of sudden collapse. In the face of the century or more of decline that forms the most likely future for the industrial world, other responses — outlined in this essay — offer a more realistic plan for dealing with the transition to a deindustrial world.
Food & agriculture – Aug 25
РLapp̩: a right to food?
– Biofuels may strain U.N. goal to end hunger
– I was a student dumpster-diver
– The shocking truth about bread
Climate change – Aug 24
UK ‘could suffer Katrina-style flooding’ /
Top climatologist warns global warming will hit Vermont hard /
Climate linked to bubonic plague increase / The hottest hoax around! (satire)
Urban design – Aug 24
– Cities healthy for cars, unhealthy for people
– Building the New Urbanism
– Eco-friendly small-town America
Food, heatlh & agriculture – Aug 15
Overweight ‘top world’s hungry’ / Living ourselves to death / Eat, memory: family heirloom (Masumoto in NYT) / Meat eaters without the guilt / Texas 2006 ag losses worst single-year total ever / Rice prices may double by 2008
Transport – Aug 15
Australia: Petrol, polls and politicians / Two-wheeled remedy for urban headaches / American vehicles are piling on the pounds
