Green car checklist
The species homo automobilicus would much rather wait for technological silver bullets than adopt lifestyle changes – especially as regards unlimited personal motorized mobility.
Technology
Coal – Apr 3
Seeking clean coal science ‘only option’
UK
coal power policy under attack from top scientists
Activism – Apr 2
Zero in locally to create a sustainable world
A citizen’s guide to Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs)
Organizing without organizations – social tools
Health & sustainability conference (climate/PO)
Deep thought – Mar 31
Asking a judge to save the world from black holes and ‘strangelets’
An act of “biopiracy” 130 years ago enriched England and devastated Brazil
The Pentagon’s cyborg insects
Deep thought – Mar 29
Kurt Cobb: Energy efficiency won’t matter without energy caps
Heinberg’s Peak Everything talk at Findhorn
Slavery’s staying power – more slaves worldwide than ever in history
Green jobs & smart grids – Mar 25
Where are all the clean, green jobs?
Robert Rapier on green jobs
Can the smart grid save the economy?
Direction of green business in an economic slowdown
Biofuels – Mar 23
Synthetic life for creating fuel from CO2 feedstock
Poppy power – biodiesel not opium
Bacteria produces oil – side effects?
Biofuel boom threatens food supplies: Nestle
How organic corn triumphed over chemical corn
The year is 1970 and as the scene opens in the Blue Room Cafe, known locally as Blue Room University, a group of farmers are discussing the pros and cons of growing corn the usual way and the new-fangled organic way. [Fiction, based on a historical events]
Post carbon living: beyond technofix
There is an overwhelming need for non-technological responses to our global environmental crisis.
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 1
Swiss doctor walks for Mother Earth
McKibben: First, step up
Swiss people power prepares to fight global warming
One nation under Elvis: An environmentalism for us all
Everybody’s jumping on the solar bandwagon
Solar energy growth fantasies that allow us to power our plug-ins and keep the lights on without disruption are not helpful in making the stepwise changes we will need to get us to 2050 all in one piece.
Online resources – Feb 27
Encyclopedia of Life – to catalog 1.8M species
Harvard research to be free online