Solutions & sustainability – Feb 4
Using Visioning as a Powerful Protest Tool
Time to Get Serious About Post Carbon Training
Petition – Restoring Scientific Integrity in Policymaking
Place in 2007
Politics
Environmentalists Need to Help Fight Bush’s Ethanol Surge
Corn-based ethanol has been at the center of a well-funded misinformation campaign launched and
perpetuated by the Bush Administration.
Climate in US Politics – Feb 1
Princeton profs drive ‘wedges’ into policy debate
Climate is changing, politically
White House climate documents sought
Climate scientist Shindell and Rep. Waxman on Bush interference
Transport – Feb 1
Boeing defends on 787 Dreamliner doubts
Sydney tunnel a $60m Super black hole
Toll Road Giant Buys Newspapers to Silence Critics
Biofuels – Jan 30
Ethanol after the State of the Union
The Sum of All Ears: Corn Cop-Out
Loser: Corn-o-copia
Major biodiesel project on hold
NZ: Switch to biofuels moves closer to reality
Q&A with Ross Gelbspan
Interview with the long-time climate change journalist (and now advocate):
“…it’s changing so fast that you just don’t know what’s going to work. I really do believe that rapid social change can happen as unexpectedly as rapid climate change. …you’ve got thousands of groups all over the country working like earthworms on this issue, what is it going to take to catalyze a real movement that comes up out of that?”
Bush and energy – Jan 29
Bush directive increases sway on regulation
The long road to energy independence
Reporters discuss President’s energy plans
Monbiot: Don’t be fooled by Bush’s defection: his cures are another form of denial
Kudos for seeing the problem. Now do something
In short, [President Bush], it’s all fine and good to ask the car companies and other manufacturing and business enterprises to deliver more fuel-efficient products and services. It’s the right thing to preach against oil addiction. But it’s all relatively meaningless if no one in power does anything to wake American consumers from their pleasant dream of cheap oil forever.
Climate – Jan 27
Bill McKibben: Step it up!
US answer to global warming: smoke and giant space mirrors
We’re ruining Earth, scientists warn (IPCC)
UN’s vast report ends the scientific argument, but will the world act?
Davos – not united on global warming
Energy resources and our future
Speech on peak oil by Congressman Bartlett to the House of Representatives.
Covers Admiral Rickover’s prescient remarks in 1957 on energy; critique of the CERA report; Chinese awareness of peak oil.
Iraqi trade union statement on the oil law
Statement issued by the Iraqi Labor Union Leadership at a Seminar held from 10 to 14 December 2006, in Amman, Jordan to discuss the draft Iraqi Oil Law.
Revolution arising from the Earth, Part I
As the industrial system spins toward exhaustion, seeds of change are sprouting at the base.
