Climate’s last chance

With a world facing as grave a threat as it faced in 1938, [Australian PM] John Howard is quickly becoming the Chamberlain of the chequebook, while a climate-change Churchill is nowhere to be seen in Australian politics. I sincerely hope I’m wrong, because this Government and the one that follows it may well be the last in Australian history to have the chance to avert a climate disaster.

Bioneers: the corporate media, storytelling and more

Over 3000 people attended the 17th Annual Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California, Oct. 20-23. The gathering was beamed by satellite to another 10,000 at 18 remote sites from Honolulu to Anchorage to Houston to Massachusetts. According to founder Kenny Ausubel, Bioneers seeks “to bring biological pioneers together to restore the Earth.”

Launch of Encyclopedia of Earth

A new electronic reference has launched that needs input from the energy community [including input about Peak Oil]. With the recent public release of the Encyclopedia of Earth, scientists from around the world are joining to create a comprehensive, authoritative source of information about the environments of Earth and their interactions with society.