Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
World ‘cannot meet oil demand’ /
OPEC warns high commodity prices may kill oil projects /
New ASPO-USA newsletter /
Toward a new vision for Hamilton (PO & cities) /
Energy philosophy for entropic times /
The Darwin Award for self-extinction goes to…
Kaboom: Peak copper, superspike prices, oil and US debt /
Peak oil passnotes: oil prepares to push on /
No problemo? Rochester and the decline of cheap oil (Kunstler) /
A peek past peak oil by UBC professor
Think globally, eat locally /
A ‘green’ building rises amid Beijing smog /
Green building: sustainability is good business /
Forbes: America’s greenest cities /
U.S. cities’ preparedness for an oil crisis /
L.A. urban farmers fight for community garden /
Live uncomfortably, live long
Mapping as an infill tool /
HP wants your Old PCs back /
A better shade of green for Wall Street /
The small but beautiful ways to save the planet /
Anything into oil (thermal conversion)
Toll for driving in downtown San Francisco? /
The Meatrix II /
Delaware Valley officially plans for post-peak /
The American Prospect special issue on “Green economy: after oil”
Gordon Brown and the carbon cop-out /
Wired interviews Elizabeth Kolbert /
Books, films and a slick ad campaign make global warming the topic du jour /
Was confusion over global warming a con job? /
In the world’s slums, the worst of poverty and environmental degradation collide
Michael Pollan: The modern hunter-gatherer /
California makes itself the most efficient place in North America /
Home builders turning green /
Farm goes for economic, ecological diversity /
US, African scientists seek biotech answer to hunger (sorghum)
If the price of oil shot to $100 a barrel tomorrow, which American cities would be able to survive economically?
To hear urban visionary Richard Register tell it, the city of the future will look more like the Hanging Gardens of Babylon than like the crime-ridden, blighted expanse often referred to as the inner-city.
Northern ozone pollution spurs Arctic warming: NASA /
Evidence of the warming West is everywhere /
States calculate global warming pricetag /
Mike Davis: “Planet of Slums” /
Ice retreats in Arctic for 2nd year; will it vanish? /
Elizabeth’s Kolbert’s book on climate change /
Will climate change worsen infectious diseases? /
CU-Boulder’s Roger Pielke on the rising cost of natural disasters
How humans are able to adjust the setup of the suburbs to meet their basic needs in times of trouble will fall to those in need. Necessity is the mother of invention, or reinvention as it were.
Burst oil pipeline causes ‘catastrophe’ in Alaska /
UK: New suburbia is an environmental cul-de-sac /
U.S. about to become net food importer /
Is America facing yet another dust bowl? /
Climate change ‘irreversible’ as Arctic sea ice fails to re-form /
Even Bush’s business allies have seen the light on global warming, but he’s dug in /
UN report: 2004 set record for carbon dioxide
