Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
A catastrophe for Iowa farmers will not be just a catastrophe for Midwestern Americans. In the Iowa floods, we’ll see more evidence of how the problems of weird weather (climate change) combine and ramify the problems associated with peak oil.
Inflation surges to highest in 16 years
Brown: oil price is ‘the most worrying situation in the world’
Brown says world needs 1,000 extra nuclear power stations
Climate change protesters hijack coal train
Tories to block third runway at Heathrow
McCain calls for more offshore oil drilling
More drilling won’t help
U.S. cities for the 21st century
Brookings: Rethinking American Transportation for the 21st Century
Bill McKibben: Free public transit for all
When is a bike not a bike? When it’s electric
The threat to the car
Sandpoint becomes 2nd Transition Town in U.S.
Portland: Step program for gasoholics (Peak Oil taskforce no longer’apocalyptic’)
To hell with debate, what can the simple folk do?
38 pounds lighter, all from recycling
Community Guide to Environmental Health: comprehensive book, downloadable from Hesperian
Could Zeppelin’s airships soon be gracing our skies again?
Summer airfares double, triple, quadruple
Scooters grow in popularity
Transportation system dissolved in Amish country
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Pittsburgh: When the oil runs out
Mark Morford:
Stay home, read, have sex
Robert Reich: We need public transportation but can’t get it
Black Commentator: Taking the train to a clean environment, a sustainable economy & jobs
Short Attention Span Theater: a history of gas consumption in America
Pickup truck, SUV sales run out of gas
End of the road for Hummer after sales dive
Big vehicles stagger under the weight of $4 gas
EU plans clampdown on car ads
With less in tank, more get stranded
Dallas-area motorists running out of gas
“Green” auto insurance
Airlines face ‘desperate’ situation, official says
Cheap flights era over as fuel prices soar
Airlines stage fightback on environmental criticism
Jamaica to revive railroad industry
Yuba homebuyers face mounting commuting costs – suburban equivalents of ghost towns?
Second Great Depression in Detroit – time for a revival? (houses for $5000)
Rural Canada:
Guzzling up their way of life
It’s easier to be green if it also saves money
Get your green pants here
Australia’s Hills Hoist comes to rescue of US ‘right-to-dry’ movement
