Solutions & sustainability – Mar 1
Kretzmann: New stirrings & targets for activism
Julian Darley: “Relocalize now!”
Astyk: All the news [& what to do about it]
Green tech: Silicon Valley’s new bubble?
Top five US cities for Cleantech
Technology
The silliest possible way to save the earth
Perhaps it is just sour grapes that I have no inventing skills, and thus am doomed to poverty and obscurity, but Richard Branson’s $25 million climate change prize reminds me of the time our refrigerator broke down.
The DCDC Global Strategic Trends Programme 2007-2036
“The Golden Age of cheap energy has passed. Competition for energy supplies will dominate the economic landscape during the next 30 years… The prospect, apparent or real, of the peak production of oil during the timeframe out to 2035 and progressive diminution of output thereafter will intensify competition for remaining resources.”
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 20
How to create an efficient fossil-fuel-free economy
Sustainability Network newsletter
Australia to ban incandescent bulbs
IT goes green
Virgin, the dynamo, and the prize
There are two big problems with the Earth Challenge prize. First, and most important, it sends the wrong message to those who are just waking up to the true threat of climate change: it says we can solve this problem by inventing the right techno-fix. …The truth is that we already have all the technology that we need to save ourselves.
Energy demand – Feb 18
In energy electricity conservation, California sees the light
Net uses 1+ percent of US electricity
US servers use more electricity than color TVs
Internet claims role in fighting global warming
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 12
David Suzuki interview
Transforming L.A. into a sustainable city
Green movement grows in Texas suburbs
Developing nations to test new $150 laptops
Uganda: Giving free bulbs
C2C – the Emerging Energy Technologies Summit
The conference was a good place to see what some of the more creative thinkers (the speakers include two Nobel Laureates) see as the technology to get us out of our current mess. (Detailed report)
Science journals focus on energy
Coverage by science journals is both heartening and discouraging.
Science special: sustainability and energy
Nature special on the IPCC report
Communications – Feb 8
Moving From Bloggers To Communities
In the spirit of Nero
Al Gore on the media
Hackers take down Internet servers
Transport – Feb 1
Boeing defends on 787 Dreamliner doubts
Sydney tunnel a $60m Super black hole
Toll Road Giant Buys Newspapers to Silence Critics
Technological Triage
As peak oil and other aspects of the predicament of industrial society begin pushing it down the slope toward catabolic collapse, sorting out what can be saved from what must be jettisoned will become a crucial task. Thinking about the options now could give us a head start.
