Transport - July 28
-Modern cargo ships slow to the speed of the sailing clippers
-Testing a London ‘Cycle Superhighway’
-Festival transforms autobahn into world’s longest street party
Happy homestead happenstances
How many slick tricks have you learned about farming and gardening more or less by accident? My favorite example happened because of laziness.
Transport - July 28
-Modern cargo ships slow to the speed of the sailing clippers
-Testing a London ‘Cycle Superhighway’
-Festival transforms autobahn into world’s longest street party
BIODIVERSITY: EU Farmers Face Genetic Contamination of Seeds
BERLIN, Jan 29 (IPS) - Biodiversity, already decaying fast as a result of
climate change and intensive farming, is under further threat by
genetic modification (GM) of seeds, says a leading German
ecological activist.
Deep thought - Jan 29
-Welcome to the Plutocracy
-The Neoliberal State
-Parecon & Participatory Society
MIDEAST: Clean Energy Faces Tough Financial Climate
CAIRO, Jan 28 (IPS) - Renewable energy projects in the Middle East could
be scaled back or scuttled
unless fresh sources of financing are
found.
Vision for Sustainability, Resiliency by Post Carbon Institute
What will we do post growth, post cheap energy, post resource abundance and post climate change? The Post Carbon Institute (PCI) convened its first meeting of Fellows this weekend in Berkeley to address these concerns. Many there and elsewhere have argued that these transformational changes are already becoming evident.
Peak oil, prices, and supplies - Jan 28
-Shell forced into oil sands U-turn
-IEA to Meet CFTC, OPEC, Banks on Curbing Speculation
-Clueless about oil prices
-Team of Rivals
27th Jan 2010 - Garrad Hassan provides due diligence to Lloyds Development Capital
Garrad Hassan has provided technical advice to Lloyds Development Capital (LDC) as part of the financing of specialist offshore cable installation company, Subocean.
A short history of peak oil preparation
Frankly, when I first learned about peak oil, I was a bit freaked out. But after time, a little too much wine, a lot of research, and some productive action, I recovered, and went on to slowly change my attitude, expectations, and lifestyle to accommodate a radically different reality from the one I previously knew.
CLIMATE CHANGE: вЂCopenhagen Accord Not Legal, Kyoto Protocol Is’
NEW DELHI, Jan 26 (IPS) - While the BASIC bloc countries - Brazil, South
Africa, India and China - will
submit their plans for voluntary
mitigation actions by the Jan. 31 deadline
stipulated by the
Copenhagen Accord, they have taken care to emphasise that
the
agreement, reached at the end of the December climate change
summit in
the Danish capital, has no legal basis.
Web & media - Jan 26
-Past Peak Oil Travelling towards Transition
-Why Transition? Creating a Brighter Future
-The Future of our Food Supply
-’Peak water’ could flush civilisation
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Swingtime
A lot of things started shaking loose last week, and not just in Haiti.
CLIMATE CHANGE: After Copenhagen, Back to Basics for BASIC Bloc
NEW DELHI, Jan 24 (IPS) - As environment ministers from Brazil, South Africa,
India and China (BASIC)
prepared to meet in the Indian capital
on Sunday to draw up a post-Copenhagen
strategy, there were
great expectations on the role they could play in pushing a
consensus on how the world should go about dealing with climate
change.
Gram and Me: Community in Time and Space
It is true that people worked long hours in the past - but the pattern of those hours was radically different. Community thrived when more people lived and worked embedded in their community. Now most Americans spend a third of their waking hours in a workplace community, often completely unconnected from the community proximate to their home…Instead of belonging to connected social institutions, if they are members of community organizations, they are probably members of completely different ones.
PERU: Rural Wisdom Against Climate Change
LIMA, Jan 21 (TierramГ©rica) - “The toads have disappeared from the
countryside because of climate change, and now there is nothing
to control the insects. Now we have to use chemicals to fight
pests, and that is killing the soil,” says worried Peruvian
farmer JuliГЎn Pilco.
Solutions & sustainability - Jan 22
-Pick-your-own vegetables to replace flowers in high street
-Permaculture Design is for Disaster Relief, Not Just for Gardens
-Sharon, the bounty!: A review of Astyk’s “Independence Days”
-Oilrigs should be used for homes in areas at risk of flooding, report says
-Growing Home—Urban Agriculture in Chicago
CLIMATE CHANGE: Polluters Dragging EU Back
BRUSSELS, Jan 20 (IPS) - Barely a month after world leaders gathering in
Copenhagen reached a weak
accord on climate change, the European
Union’s top polluters are fighting a
fresh battle to
dissuade policy-makers from taking more robust action.