United States – Feb 29
House OKs new taxes on big oil companies
Politics at the pump
Pelosi on Renewable Energy Act
Clinton’s efforts on ethanol overlap her husband’s interests
DOE not backing down on strategic reserve fill
Politics
U.S. energy
Democrats seek to boost taxes on oil companies
Won’t be easy to bollect $31B oil royalties
FutureGen CEO interview
Amid election, coal takes the offensive
WaPo editorial: The problem with biofuels
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 27
‘Eco-awakening’ affects lifestyle choices
Relocalization Network newsletter
Peak Moment TV newsletter
Peak energy tour coming to UK in 2008
At the movies – Feb 26
There Will Be Blood– dramatization of peak oil?
Renewal (religious environmental activism)
The Gleaners and I (extreme recycling)
The church model for environmental groups
What would be required to start neighborhood groups that might engage people within our existing communities, and enable those communities to start preparing for climate change and peak oil?
Climate policy – Feb 22
Climate Code Red – the new denial and the failure Of democracy
Hunters, anglers join global-warming outcry
Poor need insurance against climate change
Eugene, Oregon: Community and personal collapse preparation
Eugene makes an interesting case-study of a mid-sized city confronting the triple threat of Peak Oil, climate change, and financial meltdown. The area seems the perfect fit for relocalization. On the other hand, there is a wide gap between adding buzz words to the city manager’s lexicon and actually changing business as usual. Food security is a good place to start. (In-depth interview with writer and activist Dan Armstrong, part 1)
The peak oil crisis: Connecting the dots
When you connect the dots, it says there is a very big change coming, a paradigm shift far greater than any of us have known in our lifetimes.
U.S. Presidential candidates’ staffs briefed on peak oil and the plastic plague
I have just spent a week in Washington, D.C. talking with staffers of Senators Obama, McCain and Clinton. Their understanding of peak oil is rising at a critical time, perhaps in time for the election, but certainly afterwards for Presidential or Senatorial initiatives.
Climate policy – Feb 20
Costa Rica aims to be carbon-neutral
Climate change spurs local action
Rich, poor and climate change
24 world cities in ‘Earth Hour’ black-out
Monbiot: Juggle a few numbers, and it makes economic sense to kill people
Deep thought – Feb 18
Missing: the ‘right’ babies
Hierarchy is the result of dependency
Entropy is the problem, not energy
New economics – Feb 18
Green collar jobs study
Paul Krugman: Poverty is poison
New book: Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
The crisis is so bad the financial press turns bolshie
