Geopolitics – June 18
AFRI (OIL) COM
Iran’s Ahmadinejad says oil price artificial
Brzezinski: Russia after BTC pipeline
Challenging the militarization of US energy policy
The politics of global food and energy crisis
Are they really oil wars?
Politics
Media – June 17
Izzy Stone, Patron Saint of Bloggers
The Ups and Downs of Giving a Peak Oil Presentation
Broadcast Legend Bill Moyers on Media Reform
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
The Associated Press, Bloggers, Boycotts, and Copyright Issues
Blogger arrests hit record high
Community – June 16
Sandpoint becomes 2nd Transition Town in U.S.
Portland: Step program for gasoholics (Peak Oil taskforce no longer’apocalyptic’)
To hell with debate, what can the simple folk do?
38 pounds lighter, all from recycling
Community Guide to Environmental Health: comprehensive book, downloadable from Hesperian
Effects – June 16
Post Peak Iberia
Fuel Protests Intensify Across Asia
The Wal-Mart Dilemma, the Two-Income Trap and the End of Oil
U.S. renewable energy tax credits – extension or expiration?
The outcome of a political stalemate in Congress will determine if renewable energy and energy efficiency tax credits will be extended or will expire at the end of this year. The vote on this bill will be as soon as tomorrow and as we are hearing, it actually is in danger of not passing.
Peak oil – June 4
The New World Energy Order (interview with IEA economist Fatih Birol)
Dallas vs. Indonesia
The hollow victory of Rep. Bartlett
Food crisis – June 3
Food production must rise by 50%, says UN chief
Need long-term solutions without ills of “cheap food era”
Food prices rocketing all over Europe
Civil Society Forum calls for rethinking of the food system
Ripples – June 1
Newsweek: How the spike in oil changes everything
How will gas prices affect the blue collar/poor
Fuel protests by fishermen in Europe
Australia: Living with petrol at $3/litre
Gates warns China not to bully region on energy
Speculators – May 31
Speculation – but not manipulation
Regulators step up probes of trading in oil markets
Commodity policies set for revision
Regulators strengthen oversight of energy markets
Oil traders reduced bets on rising prices as crude hit records
Traders and commodity exchanges fight back
It will take a lot more than gardening to fix our food system
Only rice, wheat, corn, beans, and other grain crops are productive and durable enough to provide the dietary foundation of calories and protein. Grains made up about the same portion of the ancient Greek diet as they do of ours. We’ve been stuck with grains for 10,000 years, and our dependence won’t be broken any time soon.
Solutions – May 29
Monty Don: gardeners of the world must unite
Incentives for farmers to grow organic in Australia
Advice to teens and parents about peak oil
Sustainable Bellingham – grassroots organizing is key
United Kingdom – May 29
Gordon Brown urges increased oil supply
Strahan: Brown doesn’t get the oil crisis
UK cuts taxes on oil fields, opens areas to development
National Grid blamed for UK power cuts
Fuel protest: lorry drivers flex their muscles
