Edgar Vaid reviews “Convivial Policies for the Inevitable” by Michael Bassey which warns we may be forced to start relating to each other in long-forgotten ways, because there is no alternative.
… Global warming, peak oil, economic chaos Edgar Vaid | 20th December 2012 Reviews oil book cover.jpg Edgar Vaid reviews … metaphor for the rise and fall of Middle East oil wealth as a summation of the World …
In Ken Silverstein's 'The Secret World of Oil', Louis Proyect investigates the uber-wealthy middlemen of oil, inhabiting a pampered universe of moral squalor and depravity - one in which Tony Blair found himself completely at home.
… A descent into Big Oil's inferno Louis Proyect | 8th July 2014 Reviews Oil Fossil Fuels USA Africa Finance secret-world-of-oil-cut.jpg In Ken Silverstein's 'The Secret …
Filmmaker Lars Johansson talks to the Ecologist about the making of the film 'Poison Fire' and the curse of oil in the Niger Delta.
… Poison Fire Film Nigeria Niger Delta Shell Oil Video Lars Johansson Industrial Oil Protest Community Energy Politics And … of the film 'Poison Fire' and the curse of oil in the Niger Delta. Tell us how you came …
Fracking is just another step on the fossil fuel treadmill, according to 'Snake Oil' by Richard Heinberg. High costs, diminishing returns and growing pollution will ultimately nail its future. Paul Mobbs urges readers - give a copy to your MP before it's too late!
… Snake Oil: how fracking's false promise of plenty … Reviews Fossil Fuels UK USA Fracking snake-oil.png Fracking is just another step on the … fossil fuel treadmill, according to 'Snake Oil' by Richard Heinberg. High costs, …
Heavy on the moralising, light on cheer, a new book on low-carbon living has Phil England reaching for the classics
… Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change by Pat Murphy Phil … Pat Murphy Plan C Transition Community Peak-oil Climate Change Comments And Analysis Oil Community Climate Change Society …
Part travelogue, part lament for a threatened way of life, Ruth Styles says that Bruce Parry’s latest book, Arctic, shows us exactly what we stand to lose if global warming isn’t stopped - today
… Arctic Bruce Parry Global Warming Wildlife Oil Sands Canada Siberia Greenland Inuits … of the piece as far as Parry is concerned, is oil. Oil, oil companies and oil-users – that’s us …
Lone Droscher Nielsen addressed the Oxfordshire village of Wootton about the deforestation that is pushing orangutans towards extinction - all driven by the world's hunger for palm oil. Andy Morgan was deeply moved ...
… Saving the Orangutan from the palm oil menace Andy Morgan | 5th December 2013 Reviews Palm Oil Natural World Rainforest lone-nielsen.png … - all driven by the world's hunger for palm oil. Andy Morgan was deeply moved ... Of the …
Former Shell oil boss Mark Moody Stuart's ableptic, self-satisfied book on 'responsible leadership' left Danny Chivers seething. The sooner we stop caring about the opinions of the Moody-Stuarts of this world, he concludes, the sooner we're likely to improve it.
… well Danny Chivers | 16th May 2014 Reviews Oil Society Fossil Fuels Climate Change … responsible-leadership-cut.jpg Former Shell oil boss Mark Moody Stuart's ableptic, … by a man who spent 14 years at the top of the oil giant Shell, followed by four years as …
It's tough being a filmmaker on the front line of environmental defense, writes David Lavallee - challenging corporate control of the Earth's resources, not to mention governments and security services, all of them intent on extracting every last drop of oil and gas from the world's most pristine places. All the more so when holding a camera makes you an instant 'eco-terrorist'.
… them intent on extracting every last drop of oil and gas from the world's most pristine … also known as unconventional sources of oil and gas, and their environmental, economic … Baffin Island, to investigate the effects of oil exploration on marine mammals and the …
The main engine of economic exploitation is the financial system's ever increasing extraction of value through interest payments, according to economist Michael Hudson. Paul Craig Roberts finds his analysis all too accurate, as the over-financialized economies of western countries head down a spiral of poverty, decline, injustice and despair.
… an accounting format to analyze the US oil industry balance of payments. Here Hudson … and reality. Using 'transfer pricing', oil companies managed to avoid paying taxes by creating the illusion of zero profits. Oil company affiliates in tax avoidance …
Naomi Klein's magnum opus on climate change, capitalism and the growing resistance to extreme energy is positive, inspiring and full of hope, writes Jonathon Porritt. But it's also deeply challenging: the 'everything' that has to change is not just government and corporations, but you, me and the ideas that guide our lives.
… different pattern of protest against new oil, coal and gas developments. Our closest … open-pit mines, or gas fracking, or tar sands oil pipelines. "What is clear is that fighting … and acknowledges the painful reality that Big Oil's money has often persuaded indigenous …
Rapping about climate change, big pharma and peak oil brings a new edge to a medium still saturated with lyrics of violence and consumerism
… 2009 Reviews Climate Change Hip Hop Rap Peak Oil Gift Of Gab Escape To Mars gift-of-gab.jpg … about climate change, big pharma and peak oil brings a new edge to a medium still … Waterfalls' he takes on Big Pharma, peak oil and hyperconsumerism). As a self-professed …
From slave labour to armed conflict, our thirst for natural resources has created serious problems for Africa. Pádraig Carmody’s latest book attempts to unravel the moral morass, says Mark Newton
… Natural Resources Conflict Diamonds Coltan Oil Politics Economics China USA Britain … resources at its disposal - from uranium and oil to diamonds and gold - it remains … – and still continue to be – related to oil, though packaged under the more general …
In a hard-hitting new investigation, Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway report on the scientists prepared to distort the truth on the key issues of our time - from tobacco to climate change to coal fired power stations
… and Ross Gelbspan’s ‘The Heat is On’ and ‘Boiling Point’. There’s not much here about the … how the billionaire owners of little-known oil company Koch Industries have pumped nearly … of climateradio.org READ MORE... NEWS US oil giant pumps $48m into climate sceptic …
Agriculture is big business and with the EU pumping money at the sector, the corporate profiteers are holding all the aces, writes Chris Lang. The documentary ‘Land Grabbing’ investigates what happens when well-financed agro-investors take over rural communities' land and water.
… EU Romania Cambodia Africa Sierra Leone oil-palm-indonesia-cut.jpg Agriculture is big … investments in Malaysia, talking about oil palm investments. The quotation is from … film is in Indonesia. We see workers on an oil palm plantation belonging to Cargill. They …
Sewing is activism, says John Paul Flintoff, as he takes us through the politics and pleasures of this long lost skill
… than this? Knitting for peak oil Most of us have no control over how our … ‘Can you imagine somebody saying, before oil was discovered - or indeed after it has … he asks, as he explores climate change, peak oil and green economics. Flintoff questions …
The latest blockbuster exhibition from the V&A celebrates the music of its time and those who are forever linked to it, and one of the key outcomes of this counter-culture revolution was the very first Earth Day on April 22nd 1970.
… Arts Culture Rachel Carson Silent Spring Big Oil Counter Culture earth day.jpg The latest … and then, in January 1969, a 200,000 gallon oil leak from a Union Oil Company oilfield platform off the coast of …
Tamzin Pinkerton and Rob Hopkins have created a one-stop guide packed with ideas, tips and examples of how to source food closer to home
… our continued unreadiness for reaching peak oil, how can we begin to rebuild local food … is the nature of preparing for the post-peak oil economy; when it comes, the change may be … 10 Steps to Creating a Local Food Group Peak oil before 2020 'a significant risk', say …
Famous for his 'earth from above footage', photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's new film is a feast for the eyes with a strong ecological message says Polly Cook
… how and why. He explores our greed for meat, oil, wealth and the utter ignorance that … the odd TV programme. Sure, we all know oil is running out. But Home confronts the … when I saw a shanty town being shadowed by an oil plant) it seems there is no hope, and you …
Growing your own would be vital if the shops shut for good. Steve Solomon has the key to a persistent vegetable state
… Gardening Self-sufficiency Vegetables Peak Oil Farming Local Food Production Organics … key to a persistent vegetable state So peak oil has arrived, food prices are soaring and … three decades with a solid inch of topsoil permanently wedged under his fingernails. …
A global hangover haunts the world economies, but Gar Smith says there may just be a cure.....
… by climate change and the stress of vanishing oil, food, and freshwater resources, the … capital-driven path to extinction as coal, oil, forests and fresh water. The Capitalism …
America's shale gas boom threatens families, pets, and food, writes Allison Wilson. Fresh from her reading of 'The Real Costs of Fracking', she finds a host of adverse health impacts on those living near fracking sites, the toxic pollution of the food chain, and a wall of corporate and official secrecy.
… for systematic chemical testing of air, soil, or water on drill sites and their … symptoms that correlate in time with gas and oil drilling operations." In many cases they … pasture. Crops can be grown on contaminated soil. Furthermore, poor air quality can impact …
Edgar Vaid reviews a book which aims to convey the knowledge revealed by current climate research through the power of images, graphics, and case studies.
… fossil fuel age, and simply leaving the coal, oil, and gas in the ground; we know how to … effects of burning fossil fuels such as oil are explored in detail, it is often the … be repeated over the next eighty years, the oil industry’s minatory lobbying power …