Community – Feb 17
Smaller Footprints, Cooler Stuff and More Cash
Relearning how to live as voluntary peasants
Escape from America
Education
Transport – Feb 12
Million motorists embarrass road price ministers
Cuts in gasoline use decades away: US automakers
Transport chief pledges to get Auckland moving
Australian Senate Oil Supply Report – Feb 12
Parliament recognises Peak Oil as real
Review of Senate report
Oil future raises burning questions
High petrol prices a sign of worse to come
Climate Policy – Feb 11
Hot Topic
Inuit Accuse US of Destroying Their Way of Life
‘Doomsday vault’ to resist global warming effects
Bush Ripped on Global Warming
Angela Merkel — the new climate leader?
WSJ writes that gas taxes make sense
Coin in the fuse box
By subverting the feedback we need concerning global warming, peak oil and a host of other environmental problems, those engaged in this public relations game of confusion risk letting the equivalent of a house fire occur in the biosphere.
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)
Energy round-up
Energy stories that we’re watching.
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
Worldviews – Feb 9
An Islamic view: ‘Rampant’ society upsets natural order
David Korten interview
Living in a state of exponential delusion
Marxism and the ecology of destruction
Dysfunction – Feb 8
As Inflation Soars, Zimbabwe Economy Plunges
Irans nuclear plans in chaos
Uganda’s energy crisis continues
Learning From Chaco: P2P Risk Networks?
Peak oil – Feb 6
Lester Brown interview (“PO may be imminent”)
Australia oil supply report to be released
“The End of Oil” – Link TV special Feb 9, 10
Peak oilers’ error
Bartlett on CNN at 5:30 ET Feb 6
DVDs of the Boston Peak Oil Conference
Climate – Feb 6
IPCC scientist Susan Solomon
WorldChanging:
Thoughts on climate
Veteran reporter: Doubt gives way to certainty
Turkey prepares action plan on climate change
Emissions of key greenhouse gas stabilise (methane)