Getting the word out – Apr 12
1,000+ climate rallies planned this weekend
This April … Red + Blue go green
WorldChanging interviews McKibben
What’s so funny? (profile of Grist)
Politics
Oil Industry – Apr 11
What Iraq’s new oil law says about the invasion?
Getting tough with the petro-elites
Disposable Workers of the Oil and Gas Fields
Canada’s oil services struggle
Cycles of sustainability
Conventional wisdom in the peak oil community holds that the arrival of the worldwide production peak will be followed by soaring prices into the indefinite future. Recent history argues this may not be true — and if it isn’t, the challenge to any constructive response to peak oil may be even worse than it already is.
Dysfunction – Apr 9
Revolution, flashmobs, and brain chips – Grim vision of the future from the UK military
Stop shopping … or the planet will go pop
Trade war with China?
U.S. energy policy – Apr 9
Pelosi, Clinton, Obama favor nuclear plants
Forces dig in for California LNG battle
Conservatives warm to climate: nuclear, dams, thinning forests
Looking beyond – Apr 5
JM Greer: The shadow of our downfall
Sharon Astyk: World War II as metaphor
The limits of eco-localism: Scale, strategy, socialism
Peak oil – Apr 5
Hirsch responds to Swedish PhD thesis on PO
Pickens on peak oil
When the oil runs out … in Sacramento
Cato Institute: Energy alarmism
Anarkismo: Politics & reality of the PO scare
The GAO report
The report is clearly a milestone on our journey through the oil age for it is the first time the staff of a major government agency has looked at the issue and concluded that peak oil is real and, if it occurs soon, could cause a world-wide recession.
Peak oilers on the GAO report
Responses from Robert Rapier, Andrew Leonard (Salon), Lou Grinzo and James Kunstler.
There’s only one movement now
The days of balkanized little movements must end. Because Peak Oil and Climate Change are, obviously, issues for women – and for every man who has a reason to care about their mothers, their sisters, their friends, their lovers, their daughters – that is, all men
Speaking out – April 1
Kos, Obama, Hillary – join StepItUp (April 14)
Hamburg complains!
Complaints Choirs worldwide
Biofuels – March 30
Castro warns poor will starve for greener fuel
Heritage Foundation: The ethanol mandate should not be expanded
Via Campesina’s position on agro-fuels
