Peak oil – Mar 9
Chase Manhattan predicted peak oil in 1956
The militarization of energy security
Review: Kunstler’s World Made by Hand
Deffeyes: Dashed hopes for NY Times and PO
Media & Communications
A work of imagination
Our futures, personal and collective, depend as much on our imagination as the brute facts. If there is one thing that imagination makes possible, it is to believe that we are not necessarily limited by our past.
Waste & dysfunction – Mar 8
Greed in the name of green- eco-consumerism
Cradle to cradle design
What if the MSM simply can’t cover humanity’s self-destruction?
Paper or plastic?
Climate – Mar 4
California’s hills are green, but all’s not well
Pictures of a changing planet
Tobacco and oil pay for climate conference
Global warming paradox? (info may not help)
UK climate policy and activism – Mar 4
Climate camp to target coal power station
PM’s green credentials are not in the bag
Monbiot: Did the Standard tell the truth about the Heathrow climate camp?
Review: The Transition Handbook
The publication of the much anticipated Transition Handbook marks the latest landmark in what has become the fastest growing environmental movement since CND in the 1960s: the phenomenon that is sweeping the UK, the Transition Towns movement.
Online resources – Feb 27
Encyclopedia of Life – to catalog 1.8M species
Harvard research to be free online
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 27
‘Eco-awakening’ affects lifestyle choices
Relocalization Network newsletter
Peak Moment TV newsletter
Peak energy tour coming to UK in 2008
Persuasion and research – Feb 20
Research on the Web (tips from top blogger)
Manufacturing uncertainty, undermining science
Peak oil – Feb 20
Paul Krugman: Feeling a bit peaked
Interview with A Crude Awakening director
The Oil Drum: Leaders ignore the signal of $100 oil
Exxon struggling to replace reserves
How will young people deal with the next “Great Depression”?
Future oil wars made fun (video game)
Keeping scientists in line – Feb 12
Congress: Science for sale?
Keep separate science, politics
DOE erases ‘most successful’ weatherization program from website
Climate scientist they could not silence
‘Muzzle’ placed on Canadian scientists
Some Q&A about that $100,000 CERA bet
“Betting on depletion is like betting on rust. Your authors here, Udall and Andrews, are willing to wager CERA $10,000 [now $100,000] that petroleum liquids capacity won’t climb to 112 million barrels a day by 2017.”
