Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Trucks are lining up in their hundreds at three stations in Chongqing, China, in the hopes of getting 40 litres of fuel. In this city of 10 million, only those three are still selling diesel. This may be an economics-induced dress rehearsal of the reality that will face the rest of the world in the post-peak oil universe.
Are you driving yourself crazy?
A local approach to easing gridlock
An alternative to cars? Official laughs out loud
Plugging the Internet into clean power
Green computing is not an oxymoron
U.S. report warns of brownouts on overloaded Net
France’s secret weapon to beat global warming: the horse
Ford chairman talks up bikes, mopeds, public transport: ‘individual car ownership as we know it today will change’
Bicycle respect: fighting the motorheads
CNN: Must we give up our cars?
Brown to endorse new generation of nuclear power and Heathrow airport expansion
A dogma that has had its day
New terminal planned for Heathrow
Brown: Britain’s prosperity depends on airport expansion
George Monbiot for building 3 million homes
The IEA predicts that an astonishing 42% of increased demand for oil will come from China and India alone, and there is a simple reason for their growing thirst. When incomes rise, people want cars. When people want cars, they require fuel to run them.
Kunstler: Formerly normal
Walking towns: universities, military bases & pre-auto
European-style bike-sharing programs head to US
Middle class angst: the politics of lemmings
We’ll fight you all the way, airlines warn EU
Climate change will destroy Asia’s gains
An Earth-sized challenge lobbed our way – but missed in Australian elections
New Zealand glaciers retreat
Some 95% of motorized travel and freight movement by land, sea, and air is fuelled by oil products, accounting worldwide for consumption of some 60% of crude oil. …Our assessment of numerous alternatives to oil as a transport fuel concludes that, as oil depletion progresses, only electricity could reasonably power acceptable levels of land transportation.
Alcohol can be a gas
Hydrogen brewing gets an electrical boost
Biofuels bonanza facing ‘crash’
Cars out as London mayor clears way for Paris-style plage and cycle boulevards
City’s slicker: density means less impact
America’s vulnerable economy
FedEx cuts profit outlook on fuel, slowing freight
Finance round-up
$2 trillion lending crunch seen
