Beyond the point of no return
It’s too late to stop climate change, argues long-time journalist Ross Gelbspan — so what do we do now?
Act: Inspiration
Food & agriculture – Dec 12
Bertrand Russell on savants, gardeners and happiness
Oxford word of the year: “Locavore”
If it’s fresh and local, is it always greener?
Eating + Ecology = Locavore
Eco-friendly kangaroo farts could help global warming
Growing food when the oil runs out
We are what we eat
Climate – Dec 8
More than half of Amazon may be lost by 2030
Guardian special:
Cities rise to climate challenge
Virtual climate conferences?
Strategizing on the transition to organic agriculture
Astyk’s law: “Top-down strategies must be concurrent with and redundant to bottom-up strategies.”
Green Party in Massachusetts takes stand on peak oil
Two closely related crises of immense proportions are breaking upon the world: “climate change” and “peak oil.” Together we can call them the “fossil fuel crisis.”
Housing & urban design – Dec 4
Stay married – divorce is bad for environment
Five-tree fee for a Java wedding
Senior transportation a growing concern
Civic agriculture = sane housing
Health – Dec 4
Hesperian’s online library of healthcare books
Working and health: Allocating time
Competition: How green is your healthcare organisation?
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 4
Practical tools to grow an intentional community
Permaculture pathways to a low carbon future
O.U.R. ecovillage
Economics – Dec 2
Economics in Transition (alternative currencies)
Price tag in mortgage crisis is looking like real money
Review of Squeezed: Diary Of The Onset Of The Greater Depression
Housing & urban design – Dec 2
Kunstler interview; the geography of nowhere
People-Centered developments for reduced-energy living
Building equity into green homes
Peak oil – Dec 3
Oil decline pressing Vermonters now
Connecticut legislator in a bind: PO vs LNG
IBM engineer on peak oil
Peak oil, class struggle, and the thermodynamics of production
$100 oil fades fast
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 2
Japan for Sustainability
Jan Lundberg on climate change and petrocollapse
Dutch horticulture, traffic, key to green future
Interview with author of The World Without Us
This stove cooks — but burns