Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The context of ‘low product”: how designers can help articulate a new social language
The Oil Drum BookCollage – #1 of 3 (Energy, Ecology, Sustainability, Etc.)
‘Earth 2100’: the Final Century of Civilization?
Borderline bankruptcy: A Bioregional alternative?
How Obama Made Energy Platform ‘Pop’
The Democratic-Industrial Complex
Raising CAFE standards won’t work
Peak oil sf novel by R.C. Wilson
Post peak oil rock: Antioquia
Review: Stuffed!
Rajendra Pachauri: The Silent Suffering
Wangari Maathai: ‘We Know What to Do: Why Don’t We Do It?’
Monbiot: Stern breaks the east-west deadlock on who’s responsible for CO2
71 arrested in Copenhagen resisting World Business Summit on Climate Change
Exxon and its fossil fuel partners in the denial lobby seem to like models well enough when they use them for their own purposes; but through their hired mouthpieces they decry the use of models for climate change forecasting.
Let’s re-do the earth, shall we?
You see, there’s this problem with oil
and the worms are dying.
Global warming must stay below 2C or world faces ruin, scientists declare
Census of Marine Life brings hope of revival to the seas
Agency says climate change amplifying animal disease
Adaptation Emerges As Key Part Of Any Climate Change Plan
For Personal-Injury Lawyer, Michael Pollan’s Book Is Worth Fighting For
Offshore; Food, Inc.
Industrial Local?
Getting Out From Behind the Wheel
Wishes, Hopes, Fantasies
Meet Veronica Moss, A.U.T.O. Lobbyist
Government insists on business as usual despite heavy losses at BA
At the Transition Network conference, Richard Heinberg gave an online presentation looking at the concept of Emergency Planning for Communities … For a while now, Richard and I have been discussing the tension between longer term planning for resilience and the more immediate and pressing responses demanded by sudden and rapid change. It is still an ongoing discussion, but … What follows is the series of email exchanges we have had since late last year.
Window Farms: An experiment in urban agriculture
Many Summer Internships Are Going Organic
Washington State University cancels freshman reading of ‘Omnivore’s Dilemma’
Watermelons Tapped For Ethanol
Why Britain has to curb finance
Job Losses Push Safer Mortgages to Foreclosure
Map of Idle Container Ships
