Deep thought – Mar 31
Friedman: Mother Nature’s Dow
Size, Complexity, and Gluttony
The End of the Women’s Movement
Politics
Economics – Mar 31
How I helped build the bomb that blew up Wall Street
America the Tarnished
Kunstler: Under a Fluorescent Moon
China’s Quid Pro Quo
Water & environment – 30 Mar
Senate Testimony on the Energy Water Nexus
Drought Turns Water Into a Cash Crop
Water meters in every home ‘will prevent shortages’
Transport – Mar 30
‘Nano will add to global pollution’
In Praise of the Lowly Bus
David Strahan, The Independent
While we slept – March 29
The Atlantic: The quiet coup
Too big to fail?
Comparing the U.S. to Russia and Argentina
Matt Taibbi on why financial institutions should be broken up
Taibbi: The big takeover
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
Media & persuasion – Mar 27
Peak oil game designer: “Make people happier”
Leaders and Champions of Alternative Media
The Sphere of Deviance
ODAC Newsletter – 27 Mar
A weekly review from a UK perspective
United States & Canada – Mar 24
A Recession Only Steinbeck Could Love
Full Commanding Denial
The Big Takeover
“Climate Change ‘Big Priority’ For Energy Commission Chief”
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 Kingdom – Mar 23
Britain set to become most populous country in EU
Food and energy shortages will create ‘perfect storm’, says Prof John Beddington
Government borrowing ‘to swell’
Welcome to Fuffland!
In the unfolding global financial collapse, it is not just our accounts and balance sheets that come up short, but our language as well. What do you call a bunch of liar loans packaged into toxic assets and placed on the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve as collateral for rescue loans? … The Russians actually have a word for precisely the thing that has bewitched us, first accounting for an ever-increasing share of our gross domestic product, and is now responsible for our ever-larger financial black hole.
