Twilight in the Desert

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Twilight-Desert-Coming-Saudi-Economy/dp/047173876X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198860536&sr=1-1

The Last Oil Shock

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Oil-Shock-Extinction-Petroleum/dp/0719564239

globalpublicmedia and Simmons: Tons of priceless educational material here

http://www.globalpublicmedia.com

and here

http://www.simmonsco-intl.com/research.aspx?Type=msspeeches

Farewell walrus

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/24/america/NA-GEN-US-Sea-Ice-Walrus.php

Be a Vegetarian

http://www.vegsoc.org/info/why%20its%20green%20final%20small.pdf

astonishing facts about the impact of Farmed Animals on the environment.

Titanic is sinking and they say "no worries"

Will Ferrel makes fun of Bush on Global Warming

Blood and Oil

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/0141020032/ref=dp_olp_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1197761052&sr=8-1

Frankly disappointing, nothing that was not already available through Wikipedia etc.

The author has also a very Americanocentric approach to the Oil issues, and a rather naif interpretation of the Al Queda role.

The Car Prick

A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations

http://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Green-History-World-Civilizations/dp/0099516683

The book is definitely a bit boring and dry, yet the amount of information exposed is overwhelming; the report on how humans have systematically destroyed the planet's resources is blood chilling. The last chapter about global warming is very realistic and leaves no room for hope.

BBC has a portal on Climate Change

http://www.bbc.co.uk/climatechange

Brasil thanks for forests cutting is a major contributor to CO2 emissions

California fires released massive CO2 amounts

http://www.pollutiononline.com/content/news/article.asp?docid=a61e53f2-2fa0-48eb-b1b3-d86568b48802

Drought in Southern Brasil (in Portuguese)

Remember when our generation dreamed of changing the world....congratulations, you made it!

Global Warming? I don't care!

That won't affect me

Tick

Next generation will hate us

People are more responsible than politicians

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/ciudadanos/concienciados/politicos/frente/cambio/climatico/elpepusoc/20071105elpepusoc_2/Tes

Peak Oil, Peak Gas, Peak Chocolate

http://energybulletin.net/14058.html

Flood in Mexico

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7076747.stm

Peak Water

http://www.energyandcapital.com/articles/investments-water-sector/543

we are getting pummeled on everything... "Peak Everything" really! The excellent Richard Heinberg - author of the book - is right once more.

infin che 'l mar fu sovra noi richiuso

This is Dante Alighieri.

Lo maggior corno de la fiamma antica
cominciò a crollarsi mormorando
pur come quella cui vento affatica;

indi la cima qua e là menando,
come fosse la lingua che parlasse,
gittò voce di fuori, e disse: "Quando

mi diparti' da Circe, che sottrasse
me più d'un anno là presso a Gaeta,
prima che sì Enea la nomasse,

né dolcezza di figlio, né la pieta
del vecchio padre, né 'l debito amore
lo qual dovea Penelopé far lieta,

vincer potero dentro a me l'ardore
ch'i' ebbi a divenir del mondo esperto,
e de li vizi umani e del valore;

ma misi me per l'alto mare aperto
sol con un legno e con quella compagna
picciola da la qual non fui diserto.

L'un lito e l'altro vidi infin la Spagna,
fin nel Morrocco, e l'isola d'i Sardi,
e l'altre che quel mare intorno bagna.

Io e ' compagni eravam vecchi e tardi
quando venimmo a quella foce stretta
dov'Ercule segnò li suoi riguardi,

acciò che l'uom più oltre non si metta:
da la man destra mi lasciai Sibilia,
da l'altra già m'avea lasciata Setta.

"O frati", dissi "che per cento milia
perigli siete giunti a l'occidente,
a questa tanto picciola vigilia

d'i nostri sensi ch'è del rimanente,
non vogliate negar l'esperienza,
di retro al sol, del mondo sanza gente.

Considerate la vostra semenza:
fatti non foste a viver come bruti,
ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza''.

Li miei compagni fec'io sì aguti,
con questa orazion picciola, al cammino,
che a pena poscia li avrei ritenuti;

e volta nostra poppa nel mattino,
de' remi facemmo ali al folle volo,
sempre acquistando dal lato mancino.

Tutte le stelle già de l'altro polo
vedea la notte e 'l nostro tanto basso,
che non surgea fuor del marin suolo.

Cinque volte racceso e tante casso
lo lume era di sotto da la luna,
poi che 'ntrati eravam ne l'alto passo,

quando n'apparve una montagna, bruna
per la distanza, e parvemi alta tanto
quanto veduta non avea alcuna.

Noi ci allegrammo, e tosto tornò in pianto,
ché de la nova terra un turbo nacque,
e percosse del legno il primo canto.

Tre volte il fé girar con tutte l'acque;
a la quarta levar la poppa in suso
e la prora ire in giù, com'altrui piacque,
infin che 'l mar fu sovra noi richiuso".

The Human Comedy: Schwarzenegger blames arsonists for Californian fires

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7065859.stm

No matter what, always blame an external enemy.

The 3 scenarios: Feudal fascism, Eco Deal, Bottoms Up

http://relocalize.net/museletter_186_as_the_world_burns

Great Richard Heinberg, enlightening as usual.

Carbon Offsetting, real solution or neocolonialism

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/bizdaily/bizdaily_20071025-2057.mp3

This is Beijing, it's not mist, it's pollution

Get a T-Shirt from CafePress

http://www.cafepress.com/peakoilaware

Ecotopia, the dawn of a Solar Era

http://www.ecotopia.com/ases/SolarToday/DawnOfTheSolarEra.pdf

a bit overoptimistic about solar, yet very informed.

Leave the Australian Coral Reef alone

http://www.australiancoralreefsociety.org/

A colleague of mine is planning to fly to Australia and visit the Great Coral Reef. The Coral Reef is rapidly dying (bleaching) because of the acidification of water and increased temperatures.
She says "I want to see it before it dies".
That's the point. The Coral Reef dies BECAUSE we burn so much fossil fuel to fly people and goods around the world.
So, if you really love The Coral Reef, DON'T FLY to see it, just watch pictures or a documentary, it's a far more energy-efficient way to see it. And give the money you have saved to a reforestation project.

Zidane, un mythe

This has not much to do with the environment, but it's so funny. (In French)

Living on the edge of a dwindling habitat

The Age of Turbulence, Alan Greenspan

I really had a hard time to finish this book, very little interesting in it. Very commonplace, most likely very few chapters were written by Alan himself.

In this book one learns that:

- Capitalism and Free Market are the solution of all problems. Planning is bad.
- Claims of intervention of USA to back military dictatorships in Latin America are made by weak populist regimes to gather popular support against an otherwise innocent external enemy
- There is no such thing as Climate Crisis and Resource Depletion - high Oil prices are mostly due to speculation, and we have enough Oil until 2050, when most likely we will happily run on Nuclear
- More consumption of goods means necessarily more happiness. India is bad, despite his millenary culture, because they don't burn enough oil.
- What is good for American Capitalism, is good
- Progress happens through Creative Destruction: the Rich creates, and the Poor is destructed.
- Taxing the Rich is bad; Providing Social Security is bad
- There is no way to predict what the world will look like in 2030 - so why have I bought this book?

I was hoping to read some harsh criticism against Bush, but Alan is too smart to cut the branch on which he is sitting.

Amazon dries up

India NO2 pollution from the satellite

Turn down that thermostat

Deserts expanding in California

"We have a very dangerous, unpredictable situation," said Ron Roberts, chairman of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors. "We have some of the highest temperatures, some of the driest landscape conditions and some of the most powerful winds -- all the ingredients for a perfect firestorm."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/22/wildfire.ca/index.html

In 2017, sadly, we will hear the same kind of news about the Amazon Jungle.

Interesting article about Saudi Oil

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegasmike433/36571067/

Bicycles

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

H. G. Wells, 1904

http://www.ibike.org/library/quotations.htm

Don't buy a car

A colleague of mine has just bought a car. He seemed very happy, now both him and his wife have a car. They could easily commute by train, but they feel that having a car make them more independent. It is not really a NECESSITY, it's a COMMODITY.

I have asked him "Why have you bought a car, don't you know that in maximum 3 years you won't be able to afford the gas? Soon cars will be good only as a shelter for hens, rabbits, or as additional room for guests". He looks at me like I was crazy.

It's all the time the same story. People lack of foresight. They see the streets full of cars, and they think it will go on forever. I see cars, and I feel surprised that there are still people insisting on using a car, although it's proven that they devour the planet. Anyway it will soon be over. Remember 1973, when cars were not allowed to circulate on weekends? Well, next Oil Crisis is just around the corner, buy a bike and start training.

That won't affect me

Greenpeace - Alien Invasion Advert

We fuck the world

Bush Doesnt Care About Black People

We are going to see a lot more of Katrina action: police will shoot people instead of rescuing them.

End of Suburbia

Watch this before you commit to buy a house

Matt Savinar on Peak Oil

http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

only an attorney could be so systematic in exposing the truth about Peak Oil.

Jeremy Leggett - Peak oil meets climate change

How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

A rather romantic view of life in Cuba.... reality is much tougher than what told in the video.

Richard Heinberg Describes Peak Oil

Barry Commoner

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Commoner

His excellent book "The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology"
opened my eyes when I read it in 1976... I was 15 then....I wish I still was...

His 4 laws of Ecology:

1. Everything is Connected to Everything Else. There is one ecosphere for all living organisms and what affects one, affects all.

2. Everything Must Go Somewhere. There is no "waste" in nature and there is no “away” to which things can be thrown.

3. Nature Knows Best. Humankind has fashioned technology to improve upon nature, but such change in a natural system is, says Commoner, “likely to be detrimental to that system.”

4. There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch. In nature, both sides of the equation must balance, for every gain there is a cost, and all debts are eventually paid.

George Monbiot's "Heat"

http://www.energybulletin.net/22176.html

http://www.amazon.com/Heat-How-Stop-Planet-Burning/dp/0896087794

Mark Lynas, Six Degrees

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lynas

Excellent book, although a bit impersonal. After reading this book, I am sure you don't want to make a child.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Six-Degrees-Future-Hotter-Planet/dp/0007209045

The Richard Heinberg Interview Part - 2

The Richard Heinberg Interview Part - 1

Oil - The Party Is Over - Richard Heinberg

Richard Heinberg - We Need to Become Energy Literate