Hope – Apr 22
Interview with Joanna Macy
Michael Pollan: Why bother?
Jeffrey Sachs: Economics for a crowded planet
Technology
Plastics and rubber – Apr 11
First town in Europe to ban plastic bags
Schools offered uniforms made from old bottles
Harnessing biology, and avoiding oil, for chemical goods
Setting sail for Garbage Island (floating plastics)
Brazil builds £10m condom factory to help save rainforest
Green car checklist
The species homo automobilicus would much rather wait for technological silver bullets than adopt lifestyle changes – especially as regards unlimited personal motorized mobility.
Coal – Apr 3
Seeking clean coal science ‘only option’
UK
coal power policy under attack from top scientists
Activism – Apr 2
Zero in locally to create a sustainable world
A citizen’s guide to Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs)
Organizing without organizations – social tools
Health & sustainability conference (climate/PO)
Deep thought – Mar 31
Asking a judge to save the world from black holes and ‘strangelets’
An act of “biopiracy” 130 years ago enriched England and devastated Brazil
The Pentagon’s cyborg insects
Deep thought – Mar 29
Kurt Cobb: Energy efficiency won’t matter without energy caps
Heinberg’s Peak Everything talk at Findhorn
Slavery’s staying power – more slaves worldwide than ever in history
Green jobs & smart grids – Mar 25
Where are all the clean, green jobs?
Robert Rapier on green jobs
Can the smart grid save the economy?
Direction of green business in an economic slowdown
Biofuels – Mar 23
Synthetic life for creating fuel from CO2 feedstock
Poppy power – biodiesel not opium
Bacteria produces oil – side effects?
Biofuel boom threatens food supplies: Nestle
How organic corn triumphed over chemical corn
The year is 1970 and as the scene opens in the Blue Room Cafe, known locally as Blue Room University, a group of farmers are discussing the pros and cons of growing corn the usual way and the new-fangled organic way. [Fiction, based on a historical events]
Post carbon living: beyond technofix
There is an overwhelming need for non-technological responses to our global environmental crisis.
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 1
Swiss doctor walks for Mother Earth
McKibben: First, step up
Swiss people power prepares to fight global warming
One nation under Elvis: An environmentalism for us all
