Climate & environment – Oct 29
World is facing a natural resources crisis worse than financial crunch
Thoreau Is Rediscovered as a Climatologist
Elliot Diringer at Pew on Copenhagen climate negotiations (audio)
Politics
Climate & environment – Oct 28
Australia’s Stern review warns of runaway global warming
Climate change ‘making seas more salty’
Big decline in depth of Arctic winter sea ice
Author of “Climate Code Red” – No more business as usual: This is an emergency!
No more Mr and Ms Niceguy – Oct 27
The Rainbow Warriors from the Women’s Institute
Genteel custodian of grand houses turns eco-warrior to save green spaces
Waste watchers: Save cash and the environment
Dawn of the new energy order
T. Boone Pickens has challenged the U.S. presidential candidates to come up with a detailed energy plan. This speech offers them the outline of a response to that challenge…
A politics of crisis: low-energy cosmopolitanism
2008 is the year of a triple shock: the global food crisis (which made the realities of food-insecurity palpable), the global oil-price rise (which put localised transition on the agenda as never before) and the global financial hurricane (which gave the state as agent a new lease of political life). The long-term consequences can at present be only dimly discerned. [Discussion of leftism and localization]
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 26
Edward Carpenter: a pioneering open democrat
A 21st-century battle we must win for all the world’s sake
Consuming anxiety
Turning a corner (on peak oil)
Sharon Astyk: What I’d like to have been able to say to New York Times readers
United States – Oct 26
John McCain could still win election by throwing a ‘green Hail Mary’
Bartlett election preview
Green energy likely winner, big oil loser in Senate races
Matthew Simmons has bad news for Vermont
You think the financial crisis unfolded quickly? That’s nothing compared to how fast things could happen with oil. That’s the message Matthew Simmons, chair of the oil investment banking firm Simmons & Company International, delivered last month at a conference on peak oil. Vermont is unprepared for change of that rapidity.
Ghosts stirring – Oct 25
Where’s FDR when you need him?
Hoping for a new New Deal
On Robert S. McElvaine’s “The Great Depression”
Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?
Karl Marx’s guide to the end of capitalism: a primer
Eric Hobsbawm on the crisis
Peak greed
At one time I decided to give greed a chance, immerse myself in it by devoting all of my waking hours to the study of money. If bankers and I were sharing the same floor of Hell, such an obsession couldn’t be all bad. Maybe Hell just needed a makeover. We could spruce it up, refinance it, remodel…
Geopolitics – Oct 24
Pakistan Stares Into the Abyss
3 Oil-Rich Countries Face a Reckoning
‘Axis of Diesel’ forced to change its ways by plummeting oil price
Chagos islanders lose battle to return
United States & Canada – Oct 24
Going Udall the way
New Energy Economy Emerging in the United States
Former EIA chief Hakes talks about road to energy independence, economic stability (video & transcript)
