Climate – Oct 29
‘Stronger’ climate change bill for UK
Climate change cannot be bargained with
Now with 50 percent less truth
Canadians want action, vision, leadership on climate change
Media & Communications
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 27
Guardian launches sustainability website
Bill Joy: Better green tech than Internet
City Repair- permaculture for urban spaces
Israeli cities cut energy use
Peak oil: what to do? – Oct 26
USA 2034: A look back
UK energy security
Talks by Holmgren, Skeffington and Hall
Resource depletion, persuasion and the ongoing world meme
ODAC News
Media & persuasion – Oct 24
Science’s worst enemy: corporate funding
The social web ain’t rocket science
Calendar of environmental conferences and events
Planet in Peril starts on CNN tonight
Beginning tonight at 9 p.m. ET/PT, CNN will air a two-part documentary that takes viewers to the front lines of environmental change. It focuses on four main issues: climate change, deforestation, species loss, and overpopulation. The four-hour documentary was filmed across four continents and 13 countries. (Check local schedule)
Dysfunction – Oct 23
Canada: We’re the fattest nation of them all
Bob Dylan’s new ad for SUVs
Higher metal prices make theft attractive
Tests reveal high chemical levels in kids’ bodies
Continent-size toxic stew of plastic trash fouling swath of Pacific Ocean
Peak universe
While the price of oil ratcheted up hour by hour, the ASPO-USA conference members heard from an impressive range of experts who have been leading the public conversation on the Peak Oil story – with no help from the mainstream media or the political sector.
Peak Oil News Network – Oct 21
Birth of TOD: Australia / New Zealand
Just Ask Robert: Your energy questions answered
New Peak Moment transcripts: Cuba and PO’s social effects
TOD:Local needs your contributions
Energy and Environment Round-Up from TOD:Canada
ODAC News
Willits meets the S-curve
It has been a hard lesson: rational explanations of threats such as peak oil and climate change can only get one so far. People in any group or community adopt ideas at different paces based on their orientation toward change.
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 15
Popular Mechanics on appropriate technology
Change the message to save the planet
What a way to go – wake-up call
The environmental movement in the Global South
Deep thought – Oct 14
Farm work vs. gardening- what makes work unpleasant?
Think-tank confidential
The pain of caring too much about the Earth’s death
Gandalf, Gunpowder and Neil Gaiman’s cats (hope and doom)
Al Gore, IPCC win Nobel Peace Prize
Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have won the Nobel Peace Prize “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.”