Food & agriculture – Apr 1
Farmers fall prey to rice rustlers as price of staple crop rockets
Hungry crowds spell trouble for world leaders
Tensions rise as world faces short rations
Could high grain prices devastate prairie?
Politics
Confessions of a peak oil writer
I’ve come to accept that my influence is going to be very limited. The trick is not to let frustration hamper your ability to do a job you still consider important. While we can be encouraged by the example of the geologist M. King Hubbert, we don’t have 30 years to get this peak oil problem straightened out.
The Collapse Party platform
This being an election year in the US, I thought it fitting to circulate my little wish list of items that the US government could try to accomplish if it suddenly decided to make itself useful. [Excerpt from Reinventing Collapse]
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 31
DIY sustainability from ex-race engineer, now minister
Saving the planet the Swiss way – via a self-propelled world odyssey
Green progamming on Sundance Channel
Take your Uncle Scam advance and buy tangible investments
When socialists take Wall Street
The unfolding spectacle of the American central government’s impotence in the face of disaster ought to make us ponder whether solutions for any of our problems can actually come from above.
Activists do it locally – Mar 30
Denmark embraces a clean green dream
Vermont takes a baby step
Portland (Maine) – roadmap to sustainability
Geopolitics – Mar 30
John Gray: Those who control oil and water will control the world
UN rejects water as basic human right
Steve LeVine interview: Caspian oil struggle
Iraq surge doomed – cause? oil
Answer to Sunni-Shia conlict: gardening
Deep thought – Mar 25
Wall Street Journal: New limits to growth revive Malthusian fears
Passover as if Earth really matters
United States – Mar 23
James Hansen on climate change, science censorship and peak oil
Joseph Kennedy: We need a new bargain with Big Oil
Slump moves from Wall St. to Main St.
Climate-friendly Republican – ex-Congressman Boehlert
US `wide open’ to crippling power blackout
A global threat multiplier
A European Union study on the problems of global climate change contained the sobering assessment that a failure to take radical action now to address global warming would create the likelihood of severe conflict over resources in the decades ahead.
United States – Mar 20
The American Conservative: Oil for war
Obama eyes active role in oil markets
Power plant carbon emissions zoom in 07
Oil conservation the only answer
United Kingdom – Mar 19
UK natural gas prices, already at historically high levels, set to rise
Monbiot: Carbon capture turning out to be another great green scam
Brown shouldn’t deny the potency of climate change
Blair to lead climate campaign
Standard criticised for ‘alarmist’ Heathrow story
