Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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.”
Rep. Bartlett: Why is oil/gas SO expensive?
U.S. Energy Secretary Bodman: not worried by OPEC dollar debate
Peak oil production and the implications to the state of Connecticut (report)
Climate change priority in Australian vote
Do not fear climate: PM
Libs at war over Kyoto
Labor ‘not serious enough on climate change’
Big Gav: Use your vote wisely
You have to be quiet… and listen very carefully, for our government is trying to tell us something.
A number of writers on peak oil now insist that the American political class intends to impose a “feudal-fascist” regime on the world. A look behind this rhetoric exposes some uncomfortable issues in the contemporary peak oil movement.
NY Times: Where’s that energy bill?
Thomas Friedman: Coulda, woulda, shoulda
Perilous days for the US (dollar)
Military’s oil needs not deterred by price spike
When the Soviet Union crumbled, oil in the Caspian region — a remote, rather barbaric, highly romanticized region — was accessible to the west for the first time in history. The race was on, as Big Oil and all manner of adventurers, dealmakers, and political operatives traveled to one of the most corrupt and dangerous neighborhoods on earth to embark on a new Great Game with massive geopolitical and strategic implications. (Excerpt from a new book, The Oil and the Glory.)
Seven years ago, scientists published a pioneering study to help Americans understand the implications change. Here’s why you’ve never heard of it. (Excerpts)
The destructive search for military control amid acute environmental constraint highlights the prescience of pioneering work on global sustainability. (The Club of Rome and The Limits to Growth )
Last Thursday, Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid said that they would jettison the renewable energy provisions in both the House and Senate versions of the 2007 energy bill in the interest of passing a bill before the Thanksgiving recess begins on November 17.
From state-based sovereignty towards bright green governance
World energy to 2050: a half century of decline
Sharon Astyk: Scared? Duh.
$100 oil to put Myanmar junta over a barrel again
Recycling a necessity not fad in Cairo
Zimbabwe: rural folk cut off from ‘civilisation’
