Dysfunction – Dec 3
Naomi Klein: Forget the green technology – the hot money is in guns
Eat, drink and be miserable: the true cost of our addiction to shopping
Clogged by plastic bags, Africa begins banning them
Politics
Economics – Dec 2
Economics in Transition (alternative currencies)
Price tag in mortgage crisis is looking like real money
Review of Squeezed: Diary Of The Onset Of The Greater Depression
Peak oil – Dec 3
Oil decline pressing Vermonters now
Connecticut legislator in a bind: PO vs LNG
IBM engineer on peak oil
Peak oil, class struggle, and the thermodynamics of production
$100 oil fades fast
Capturing the energy opportunity: creating a low-carbon economy
Energy platfrom from a liberal think tank proposing to “1) Grow our economy through the transformation to a low-carbon economy 2) Recreate a ladder of economic mobility.”
What should members of the peak oil movement call themselves?
If we don’t label ourselves, someone will do it for us.
Middle class angst: The politics of lemmings
The deepest fear in suburbia, never spoken aloud, is that when this epoch unravels, Suburbia’s citizens quite simply will not know how to survive… The real choice that Suburbia will face is one between fascism or self-sufficiency, which is a choice – as well – between spiritual death or spiritual renewal.
Coming out of the eco-closet
Being Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual or Transgender in this culture isn’t easy. Yet many of you are finding your way in that. And as you take a stand, are you not finding empowerment and perhaps even excitement at times? I invite you to do the same regarding the state of the world.
United States – Nov 29
Negotiators close in on energy measure
Candidates offer different views on energy
How not to make an energy policy
In Texas, climate creeping onto agenda
Media – Nov 29
Society of Environmental Journalists: Guide to information and disinformation about climate change
Cold Facts: good climate documentary waffles
News reporting faces web challenge, warns New York Times editor
The newspaper in the days of digital anarchy
Australia’s elections – Nov 28
Australia’s new PM – how green is he?
Quick shift required in foreign policy
The party’s over and Liberals will soon be history
Oil price will be a test for Rudd
Transport – Nov 27
France’s secret weapon to beat global warming: the horse
Ford chairman talks up bikes, mopeds, public transport: ‘individual car ownership as we know it today will change’
Bicycle respect: fighting the motorheads
CNN: Must we give up our cars?
Are we green yet?
Couldn’t this Green culture that we are nurturing here in the San Francisco Bay Area become part of our cultural pride and identity, that we then spread to the entire state of California? … Perhaps the Chronicle was not far off in using the headline “heartbreaking” about the Bay oil spill. As one activist pointed out, “It is in the breaking of the heart that we truly discover what it is we feel compelled to do.”
