Wall Street Journal interviews Wayland teacher about ‘peak oil’
Middle School teacher Aaron Wissner wants to get the word out that energy is about to get very expensive — a Wall Street Journal article would do nicely.
Media & Communications
The near-ice biking experience
It took a near-ice experience and tomorrow’s potential challenge of an early, icy, 11-mile trip to get me to do a simple thing with immediate rewards like change out my bike tires. What, then, does it take to get people to make much bigger changes in their lives to prepare for a world with less abundant energy?
Revamped ODAC newsletter
The newsletter will be published each Friday, and aims to provide a representative selection of the peak-related stories that have appeared in the media during the previous week, along with occasional guest commentary and analysis of the most important issues.
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 30
Sheryl Crow’s peak oil protest song
Cheap at twice the price: sustainable fashion
Europe thinks alternatively in quest to go ‘green’
High oil prices boost energy efficiency
Climate – Jan 28
Big business: climate ‘very low on agenda’
Making 2010 Winter Games carbon neutral
Everything’s Cool: a real-life disaster movie
The WSJ article on a CERA oil decline study
Critique of CERA’s study by the author of the “Hirsch report” on peak oil.
Climate policy – Jan 25
EU aims for moral high ground with swingeing climate change package
Ads revel in taunting environmentalists
Sweden, the EU and renewables
UN chief urges priority for water crisis
Mental – Jan 24
U.S. voters show darker mood than in 2000 – unsettled, powerless
I’m a brilliant scientist and I fear for the world’s fate
Public vs. private commitment
Peak oil as obsessional neurosis
Davos 08: Reasons to be anxious
Peak oil – Jan 22
The fallacy of reversibility: why peak oil actually helps industrial agriculture
OPEC Secretary-General : ‘International oil companies are the real dinosaurs’
Not “peak oil” but “trough oil”!
Review: Shell Game by Steve Alten
“How to Boil a Frog” on peak oil
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 22
Earth Hour: Going dark for the environment
Seeking ways to help the world’s poorest
New site critiques press coverage of science and the environment
Organic art?
Farming is itself an art and a whole lot more artists than you might imagine draw their early or late inspiration from it. And I don’t mean just sentimental, sugary, artsy-fartsy, pretty stuff about farming, but the guts of it, the tragedy and heartbreak a farmer must sometimes endure, as a true artist often endures, when he pits himself against the tyranny of greed and the indifference of nature to produce good food.
Media & activism – Jan 9
Reality TV “Dumped” – 11 volunteers marooned in a South London rubbish dump
Buzzwords 2007
How to diversify environmentalism?
Growing importance of nonprofit journalism
