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Moving the U.S. Off Carbon With Less Pain, More Gain
44% Say Global Warming Due To Planetary Trends, Not People
The “war on science” is over. Now what?
Design Contest Announced: Green Patriot Posters
US lawmakers okay energy tax breaks in Obama plan
Bush advisors told him downturn ‘could be greater than the Great Depression’
Pascal’s Wager and Climate Change
The Pornography of Political Fear
Today the second three-day world future energy summit began in Abu Dhabi. One of the biggest energy conference in the world that is being attended by key policy makers, financiers, leading academics and no less than 400 journalists from all over the world. The conference was opened by the Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange and the Netherlands…
Green-collar economy taking root in Chicago
Advice To Pres. Obama (#3): Change you must
Not Advice, But a Warning
Energy Inefficient
The benefits of an intercontinental energy grid
Missing the Bottom Line
Krugman’s letter to Obama
Wind, ethanol cloud our difficult energy choices
Reelin’ in the Green
Transition Town networking site for the U.S. – beginning of a movement?
Post Carbon Institute launches partnership with Transition United States
Transition Town movement gains traction in New Zealand
Strategies for Community Food Security: The Local Foods Coop
Hope and the new USDA chief
Sustainable Table suggests sustainable food for thought
Oil will peak. I get it…I am convinced that this thing we call civilization is ludicrously based on profit and is a madman’s interpretation of the pursuit of happiness. I recognize the insanity. The illusion that participating in the race for stainless steel appliances and ride-on lawn mowers as a worthy endeavor is squashed forever.
So now what?
HopeDance tackles peak oil, sustainability on California’s Central Coast
Environmental S.W.A.T. Team at New York Times
Transition California Online
…the world reserves of phosphate rocks, which are used for the production of phosphate fertilizers, are declining. They can be depleted even this century. The problem with the lack of phosphate fertilizers does not start, however, when all phosphate rock reserves are gone. It starts as soon as the demand for phosphate fertilizers exceeds the supply of phosphate rocks available for export… And this situation may appear within the next 10-20 years.
…So, what can we do?
A remarkable number of the attitudes and assumptions shaping the way today’s Western societies view the future have their roots in the science fiction of an earlier era. Do the first efforts at peak oil fiction offer a way to shape the collective imagination of the era taking shape around us today?
