Peak textiles – Apr 22
Clothes-Minded? Wear Your Earth Day Suit!
Best In Show: Solar Clothing
Luxury-Goods Makers Embrace Sustainability
Media & Communications
Web & persuasion – April 19
Persuasive design for sustainability
Virtually virtuous (sustainable “Second Life”)
Spam’s noxious carbon footprint
The Ecologist magazine drops print
Reflections on Herbert Schiller’s The Mind Managers (1973)
Nobler instincts take time
Emotions linked to our moral sense awaken slowly in the mind, according to a new study from a USC neuroscience group. Fast-paced digital media tools may direct some heavy users away from traditional avenues for learning about humanity, such as engagement with literature or face-to-face social interactions.
Peak oil & supplies – Apr 16
Total energy executive on the end of oil: ‘We have to save, save, save’
Article Review: Depletion and the Future Availability of Petroleum Resources
The Upside of Piracy
The ‘Peak’ Summit: An Informal ASPO & Oil Drum Gathering (June in Italy)
Consumerism & its critics – Apr 16
Andy Rooney Comments On The Changing Environment And Admits He’s Part Of The Problem
WWF Scotland boss calls for energy wasters to be prosecuted
The Gospel of Consumption and the better future we left behind
Equality Needs to Be Our Organizing Principle
Consumption dwarfs population as main environmental threat
United States & Canada – Apr 14
Friedman: (No) Drill, Baby, Drill
Political winds shift in favor of legalized pot
Natural gas production decline creates fiscal headache
Deep thought – Apr 13
BBC documentaries dissecting modernity
Mr. Soddy’s Ecological Economy
I Dream of GINI – Wealth (In)equality after Resource Depletion
UK & Europe – Apr 13
Archbishop makes credit crunch case for monastic lifestyle in Easter sermon
UK goes into ecological debt on Easter Sunday
Weak pound heaps food price inflation on poorest households
Mayor unveils plan to turn London into ‘electric car capital of Europe’
Renewables & biofuels – Apr 13
“Revolution on a Rooftop” author interviewed
Oil Giants Loath to Follow Obama’s Green Lead
Amid a sea of troubles, ethanol now has an antibiotics problem
Ethanol adds 0.5-0.8 points to U.S. food prices
Economic fallout – April 11
Recession anxiety seeps into everyday lives
Economic crisis sweeps Eastern Ukraine
Fox reality series features real-life company layoffs
Economics – Apr 10
Ecological economics interview: Jon Erickson
Socialism has failed. Now capitalism is bankrupt. So what comes next?
Just 53% Say Capitalism Better Than Socialism
Food & agriculture – Apr 10
Meet the veg doctor
Human Impacts on Ecosystems
Household Dry Food Cooking
Food Industry Pursues the Strategy of Big Tobacco
Will New Food Safety Bills Really Outlaw Backyard Gardening and End Farmers’ Markets?
