United States – Dec 24
Obama team plans biggest boost in history to save American economy
America’s stop-and-go energy plan
Energy’s take on Team Obama
Politics
United States – Dec 23
Posing as a Bidder, Utah Student Disrupts Government Auction of 150,000 Acres of Wilderness for Oil & Gas Drilling
Robert Rapier: Thoughts on the New Energy Team
More proof Holdren is a great choice
US Environmental Protection Agency faces eleventh-hour shake-up
Will Energy Efficiency Stimulus Distract America from the Real Task at Hand?
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 23
The Vermont Creed
Ban bottled water
Sentient Times and social change
Going green for Hanukkah
Ashland group pushes for ‘transition town’ status
Prices & supplies – Dec 22
Shadowed by $200 oil
Channel 4 News interview: London oil summit
Over a barrel
Dysfunction – Dec 22
Katrina’s Hidden Race War
Computing Power About To Peak?
The Needle and the Damage Done
The Versace beach will be refrigerated
Politics & economics – Dec 21
White House philosophy stoked mortgage bonfire (NYT)
The depression of 1929 is the wrong model for the current economic crisis
‘Greek Syndrome’ is catching as youth take to streets
The revolt of a disappointed generation (Greece)
United States – Dec 19
John Holdren as science adviser – Obama’s strongest message on climate yet
China says lending to US will not go on forever
Abandoned horses are on the rise
ODAC Newsletter – Dec 19
Weekly update from a UK perspective
Obama’s green dream team?
Obama picks Nobel man for Energy
Obama’s Green Team
Vilsack and Obama: Farmer-in-Chief my ass! (Sharon Astyk)
Obama’s farm and food appointment
Why dissensus matters
What we think we can know about the future determines how we prepare for it. The speculative bubbles that have left rubble across the economic landscape offer a useful lesson about the difference between knowing what won’t happen, knowing what will happen, and knowing the kind of things that will happen.
Deep thought – Dec 18
Surviving a reduction in social complexity
Change, but at what price?
David Holmgren on Permaculture, Business, Resilience and Transition
Food & agriculture – Dec 18
Scenario 2020: The Future of Food in Mendocino County
In “eat local” movement, Cuba is years ahead
Feeding the world sustainably demands new approach to farming and food
Michael Pollan On Vilsack, Agriculture — And Food
