United Kingdom – Mar 12
Queen urges action, not talk, to tackle climate change
Ministers challenged over backing for coal-fired power station
Darling plans Labour’s greenest budget yet
Government backs coal-fired power stations
Politics
Peak oil – Mar 12
Spitzer successor would be US’s 4th black governor (and 1st PO-aware governor)
Michael Klare: $100+ oil and what it means
Kunstler: Kiss the gas-guzzling NASCAR era good-bye
From fossil fuels to renewables
Bartlett’s 39th address to Congress on peak oil. Video available.
United States – Mar 11
Our three-decade recession
Labor’s war on global warming
Green movement is reaching for the rainbow
Volunteers help warm New England homes
Big Oil profit pushes Democrats to seek $1.8 billion
Michigan conference on peak oil and climate starts May 30
The coming crisis in the oil supply is one of three key topics to be covered at a conference bringing together national experts on “peak oil”, climate change and an environmentally friendly and sustainable economy. The conference is scheduled for May 30 – June 1 in Grand Rapids.
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 8
Review: The Transition Handbook
Implementing rhizome at the personal level
Sustainable Settings in Colorado leaves for greener pastures
Interfaith forum on environment in N Carolina
Mining exec an activist himself
The peak oil crisis: polity on trial
The fate of most of the world’s peoples is going to depend on how well we, as societies – here and around the world,- get our collective acts together over the coming decades and organize to survive the transition to a post-oil world.
Climate – Mar 5
Climate change’s most deadly threat: drought
Skeptics insist humans not at fault
Warming may have caused salmon collapse
United States – Mar 5
Bush: America must ‘get off oil’
Bartlett pounces on hydrogen claims
William F. Buckley on $100 oil
United States – Mar 4
Americans start to curb thirst for gas
NYT: The Senate shills for Big Oil
Climate crisis getting short shrift in president race: Gore
‘Post fossil fuel era’ in Senate endorsement
Is belt tightening a threat?
UK climate policy and activism – Mar 4
Climate camp to target coal power station
PM’s green credentials are not in the bag
Monbiot: Did the Standard tell the truth about the Heathrow climate camp?
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 1
Swiss doctor walks for Mother Earth
McKibben: First, step up
Swiss people power prepares to fight global warming
One nation under Elvis: An environmentalism for us all
