Solutions & sustainability – May 18
Clare Short: Birmingham should become a transition city
A family farm in the midst of suburbia
No wonder Iceland has the happiest people on earth (their secret revealed)
Population
Crisis & collapse – May 18
Expert warns climate change will lead to ‘barbarisation’
Thomas Homer-Dixon interview
The Onion: Everything falling apart, reports Institute
Dysfunction – May 17
Obesity contributes to global warming
Why puberty at an ever-younger ages?
Environmental results of the Gold Rush
Not as green as they claim to be
Deep thought – May 16
A leftist critique of Transition Towns – review by Rob Hopkins
Malthus, the false prophet
Are there just too many people in the world?
The food system – May 15
New Yorker: Is the world’s food system collapsing?
In search of a better revolution (than the Green Revolution)
Raj Patel’s Starved
Fewer poor people, more volatility in food prices?
Climate – May 14
Herman Daly: Moving climate policy from ‘know how’ to ‘do now’
Climate worries wealthy, polluting nations least
What condoms have to do with climate change
Deep thought – May 10
Interview with Mark Anielski: The Economics of Happiness
Return of the population timebomb
Consumerism: curses and causes
Population – May 8
C.I.A. chief lists population as a top concern
Population reduction, voluntary and otherwise
The Population Bomb revisited
More choice for women means more sustainability
Food & agriculture – Apr 21
Lester R. Brown: World facing huge new challenge on food front
Food price rises are “mass murder” – UN envoy
How hunger could topple regimes
We know secret of Joseph’s biblical pest control
China population – Mar 12
One-child policy ‘pays off’ for GHG emissions
China mulls change to one-child policy
Deep thought – Mar 8
The New Green Deal of 2009
Can we survive?
Norman Church: The elephant in the room
Personal survival in a world gone mad
The elephant in the room
The UK has until recently been one of the most resilient economies in the world. Over the last 100 years, it has survived two world wars, staged spectacular economic recoveries, been blessed with energy resources, and evolved from manufacturer to the world into a service economy. But the position in which it now finds itself looks bleaker.
