Brisbane City Council report on Climate Change and Energy
Consultants report to Brisbane City Council advising on preparing the city for climate change and peak oil.
Education
Nuclear – Mar 21
TOD: Are We at Peak Uranium?
Lack of fuel may limit US nuclear renaissance
Russia, Kazakhstan to sign deal on uranium enrichment center
Restrictions lifted after nuclear plant bomb threat
Regulators give Duke costs for application
Iceberg Dead Ahead Captain
The decline of production in Saudia Arabia over the past year may be like the iceberg that sank the Titanic. There are many similar analogies to the Titanic disaster some 95 years ago.
An uneasy alliance
The bulk of scientific research remains focused on manipulating and dominating the natural world rather than finding ways to live sustainably in it.
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 16
Profiles in municipal sustainability
Company fuels Second Harvest during Alberta’s fuel crisis
Earth: Home sweet home (animation)
Blogs can top the presses
Solutions & Sustainability – Mar 12
Gradually Greening: Empowerment through Laziness
US moves up Daylight Saving Time
Fashioning a future
Landless Take Over Rio Bank
Environment – Mar 10
Madison Declaration on Mercury Pollution
Professor fights against plastic
Devastated system dying of thirst
The Bio-DaVersity code
Thinking climate change – Mar 9
How to think differently about climate
Kim Stanley Robinson: The anti-Crichton
Sports Illustrated covers climate change
Epidemiologist: A cost of climate change that can’t be counted in dollars – survival
Hubbert speaks!
Happy Birthday Peak Oil! Commemorating the 51st Anniversary of M. King Hubbert’s Seminal Speech, the Hubbert Tribute site has released a 1976 video clip of Hubbert speaking about world oil depletion and explaining the concept of peak oil.
Why the free market fails consumers in sustainable energy innovation
The free market will ignore solutions that can’t turn a profit. The corollary is that the free market will ignore any solution that cannot be controlled, either through property interests (enforceable intellectual property, monopoly licenses, etc.) or because economies of scale demand centralized operation. This means that free market innovation is structurally incompatible with a huge portion of the universe of possible energy solutions.
Conserve magazine – “the new voice of doing more with less”
To meet the need for news and commentary on perhaps the greatest challenges facing the United States today – human-caused global warming and a projected energy shortage – Conserve Magazine was launched today.
The failure of reason
As we approach the peak of world oil production, and proposed solutions proliferate, the social momentum of the industrial world moves the other way. The connection between the two sides of this paradox may be closer than it appears.