Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Kunstler: Failure beyond finance
Krugman: After the money’s gone
Consensus is moving towards how severe the hard landing (recession) will be
Peak oil and portfolio prudence
Congressional report: Rich are getting richer faster, much faster
WTO director: “Capitalism cannot satisfy us”
Congressional study finds White House manipulated climate science
Judge says California can regulate greenhouse gases from cars
Proposal for $600 million center to coordinate energy, climate research in California
Al Gore Nobel Prize speech
CBS asks candidates about global warming
U.S. prevails on climate draft, squelches targets
Canada tries to stop declaration on GHG reduction
Rich, poor countries at odds
Hard choices on climate can wait for next president: Bush aides
Poor hit hardest by climate change
Paying other nations to be green
It’s too late to stop climate change, argues long-time journalist Ross Gelbspan — so what do we do now?
Astyk’s law: “Top-down strategies must be concurrent with and redundant to bottom-up strategies.”
U.S. policy on Russia currently amounts to this: “You hurt my feelings.” It would be better to focus on issues, and the main one is energy, the foundation of Russian — and Putin’s — power.
Proposals for dealing with the onset of peak oil often focus on large-scale, ideologically defined solutions. A more modest piecemeal approach may offer more options in the unpredictable future ahead of us.
Two closely related crises of immense proportions are breaking upon the world: “climate change” and “peak oil.” Together we can call them the “fossil fuel crisis.”
The newly elected PM is taking over at a time of looming economic crisis due to Peak Oil. An Australian engineer describes the problem and outlines the steps he thinks are required.
Behind Chavez’s defeat in Venezuela
The limits of 21st-century revolutions
Hugo – neither satan nor saviour
Tension over oil at the edge of Alaska
Auto industry backs CAFÉ deal
Lawmakers to raise fuel efficiency
The candidates on energy
New push for ‘green collar’ jobs
Petrodollar greenfare
The Finance Round-Up
Australia’s new government ratifies Kyoto pact
Australia has done a backflip
International vs US labor movements on climate
