Transport – Feb 27
Smogville could become a velotopia (L.A. had a cycleway in 1900)
Oil changes every 3,000 miles: not for everyone
Airlines plummet on oil
Transport after petroleum (cartoon)
Waste
In the dark with both hands
Fertilizer shortages caused by the depletion of nonrenewable feedstocks are a significant worry in the wake of peak oil. There’s a simple solution — but most people in the industrial world don’t seem to be able to tell it from a hole in the ground.
At the movies – Feb 26
There Will Be Blood– dramatization of peak oil?
Renewal (religious environmental activism)
The Gleaners and I (extreme recycling)
Housing & urban design – Feb 25
Earthships and the Garbage Warrior
Radiant City: Canadian documentary on sprawl
Government seeks UK’s first ‘cycling city’
A theology of compost
The homely and practical art of composting has implications that stretch far beyond its value as a way of maintaining soil fertility. Can it teach us to build societies less vulnerable to resource depletion and the hard realities of life on an unstable planet?
U.S. Presidential candidates’ staffs briefed on peak oil and the plastic plague
I have just spent a week in Washington, D.C. talking with staffers of Senators Obama, McCain and Clinton. Their understanding of peak oil is rising at a critical time, perhaps in time for the election, but certainly afterwards for Presidential or Senatorial initiatives.
More, more, more – Feb 10
Retail therapy: Does sadness mean spending?
My cortex made me buy it
Slow sex: Moving toward informed pleasure
The perpetual state of desire that we call ‘human nature’
The ecological economy
Dysfunction – Feb 5
Obesity becoming world crisis
The world’s rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan
Wilderness under threat as visitors stay indoors
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 5
The slow life picks up speed
Recycling to a fashion
Green can be inexpensive, with a little work
Motivated by a tax, Irish spurn plastic bags
Waste – Jan 24
From toilet to tap
Whole Foods sacks plastic bags
Ontario to end ban on clotheslines
Asia – Jan 10
Paul Krugman: Dealing with the dragon
China to ban plastic bags
Energy subsidies fuel China steel export
A green bulldozer? S. Korea’s new president
India’s $2,500 cars = $200 oil?
South Asia hit by food shortages
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Dysfunction – Jan 9
£1,290 car delights Indians, horrifies greens
Thieves target catalytic converters
Are the suburbs a health hazard?
Petrochemicals in beauty aids
Junk mail box