Deep thought – Sept 23
Sharon Astyk: Why I believe in individual action
Who said Marx wasn’t green?
Is it time for Americans to start cutting our baby emissions?
Politics
United Kingdom – Sept 20
Interview with Sir John Houghton (IPCC 1988-2002) on climate policy
UK green policies: how the Lib Dems compare
Labour starts renewable energy drive to win back climate initiative
Mass-produce the change – Sept 16
Amy Goodman at the “Global Triple Crisis” teach-in (Korten & Shiva)
10 things we can do: Rebuilding civil society
The power of voluntary actions
Can this really save the planet?
Don’t just be the change, mass-produce it
Is peak oil a guy thing?
As the crisis deepens, those focused on spreading the word (whether in a “confrontational” manner or not) and those focused on inclusiveness and the implementation of responses will find that they need each other as much as the world needs to hear and see what both groups have to offer.
Can you spare a dime? Why we could….but won’t
We’re racing towards a wall, and not only are we not slowing down, we’re gunning the motor by doing things like expanding ethanol production and sending the next generation’s hope against malnutrition down the river, and letting the terms of the political discussion be shaped by whether or not to tighten fuel efficiency, rather than how fast we can get the cars off the road.
UK Conservatives issue green blueprint – Sept 14
Blueprint for a green economy
Alex Steffen: A ‘groundbreaking, worldchanging political work’
A quality report
Green groups attack Labour, Tories and Lib Dems on environment
Public teach-in on the triple global crisis Sept 14-16
Over 60 prominent policy leaders, activists, scientists and scholars will gather to discuss the Global Triple Crisis in Washington DC:
– Climate Change
– Peak Oil (The End of Cheap Energy)
-Global Resource Depletion (including Species Extinction)
Energy and nation – Sept 12
Oil’s golden years stifled innovation in Norway
IEA sounds ‘wake-up call’ on energy savings
Shetland and Faroe Islands prepare for post oil
UK change in political climate
Zimbabwe: People scavenge while fatcats get fatter
Nature, terror and oil top US fear list
The power of voluntary actions
Dismissing the importance of small personal behavior choices in favor of a sole focus on policy changes is a big mistake. Small behaviors are important not only for the direct environmental impact they have, but because they often lead to more and more pro-environmental behaviors over time.
Peak oil – Sept 10
Zac Goldsmith: ‘Peak oil informs everything’
Leftist discussion of Peak Everything
Atlantic: The world’s most essential oil field may be in decline
Matt Simmons series
TOD community update
ODAC News
United Kingdom – Sept 10
Conservatives have opportunity to introduce a green agenda
Turn off the TV and join the Tory green revolution
Kunstler gets a letter from an employee in the British oil industry
New nuclear row as green groups pull out
Searching for scapegoats
The question of what to do about the imminence of peak oil has become tangled up with questions about who to blame for it. A hard look at this thinking may be in order.
