United States – March 30
Cities deal with a surge in shantytowns
Decrying AIG, top officials ask strong new control
California’s jobless rate forecast to pass 12%
NYT repeats coal talking points, try to sabotage Obama’s green energy plans
Media & Communications
Europe – March 29
G20 protesters go on the march in London
From Edinburgh to Paris to Kiev, Europe is revolting
G20 protesters produce spoof Financial Times
Wallace and Gromit tout energy efficiency
Anti-globalization group circulates faked German newspaper from 2010
Deep thought – Mar 27
Sharon Astyk: In praise of Sacred Demise
It’s the Ecology, Stupid (ecological economics)
Honest Evaluation of Costs and Benefits, Profit and Loss
Listening to the Talking Heads (experts and predicting the future)
Media & persuasion – Mar 27
Peak oil game designer: “Make people happier”
Leaders and Champions of Alternative Media
The Sphere of Deviance
Deep thought – Mar 26
The Peakist
Book review: Future Scenarios by David Holmgren
In Review: The Road to Sustainability
Towards a New Sustainable Economy – Robert Costanza
LEARN: An Acronym to Avoid Societal Collapse
Energy Descent, and A World Without Property
Food & agriculture – Mar 26
A Farm for the Future
Planning for peak oil
Why the foodie press needs to do better work on seafood
Housing & urban design – Mar 26
Strengthening Rural-Urban Connections
Artists, Foreclosures and the Ruins of the Unsustainable
City dwellers have smaller carbon footprints, study finds
Earthship’s Michael Reynolds on the Colbert Report
Biofuels & biochar – Mar 25
Monbiot blasts biochar
Lovelock replies to Monbiot on biochar
Economic Recovery May Rekindle Food/Fuel Debate
Shell Dialogues webchat – biofuels
Food & agriculture – Mar 24
Green shoots
‘Food hub’ plan to boost local producers
Study Finds Eating Red Meat Contributes to Risk of Early Death
Is a Food Revolution Now in Season?
Food, class, and the new, new agrarianism
Cool Cuisine and Fresh Food
A Friendly Permaculture Critique of the Obamas’ Vegetable Garden
If I had written it as a Transition Tale in the Transition Handbook, it would have ranked as being even more ridiculous than the Beckhams’ cob retirement house. However, here we are, and Michelle Obama has started to dig up part of the White House lawn and turn it into a vegetable garden.
United States & Canada – Mar 20
Obamas Prepare to Plant White House Vegetable Garden
Obama Tries to Draw Up an Inclusive Energy Plan
A New Washington Team and a Fresh Game in Russia, Iran and the Caspian
Media & web – Mar 20
Clay Shirky: Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
Banned hyperlinks could cost you $11,000 a day
There is no bigger issue than net censorship
We need a bailout for newspapers
Newspaper cuts open door to more political trickery
