Scientists Detail Climate Changes, Poles to Tropics By James Kanter and Andrew C. Revkin The New York Times Saturday 07 April 2007 Brussels - From the poles to the tropics, the earth's climate and ecosystems are already... (read more)

How Close to Catastrophe? By Bill McKibben, The New York Review of Books and TomDispatch Posted on November 4, 2006, Printed on November 4, 2006 http://www.alternet.org/story/43606/ [This piece, which appears in the November 16, 2006 issue of the New York Review of Books, is posted here with the kind permission of the editors of... (read more)

FRIENDLY FIRE Most of those advocating the new energy technologies are not suggesting any reduction in overall energy consumption. THERE IS A critical issue in the energy debate which has not received the attention it deserves: the problem of ‘friendly fire’. Friendly fire is the euphemism our military and press use... (read more)

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Green Star Products, Inc. (OTC: GSPI - News) today announced that it has signed an agreement with De Beers Fuel Limited of South Africa to build 90 biodiesel reactors. Each of the biodiesel reactors will be capable of producing 10 million gallons of biodiesel each year for a total... (read more)

Augusta Free Press : Peak Oil will change our lives http://www.augustafreepress.com/stories/storyReader$39709 Peak Oil will change our lives Ecology and You Erik Curren The Augusta Free Press Last week, I attended a conference on Peak Oil in Washington, D.C. With about 250 others, I heard that the world is probably reaching the top of petroleum production... (read more)

No More Business As Usual by Byron W. King ALI SAMSAM BAKHTIARI is a retired "senior energy expert," formerly employed by the National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) of Tehran, Iran. He has held a number of important positions with NIOC since 1971. He is currently attached to the director's office in the... (read more)

Venezuela's Cooperative Revolution An economic experiment is the hidden story behind Chávez's 'Bolivarian Revolution.' By BETSY BOWMAN AND BOB STONE This article is from the July/August 0706toc.html">July/August 2006 issue of Dollars & Sense: The Magazine of Economic Justice available at http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2006/0706bowmanstone.html This article is from the July/August 2006 issue of Dollars & Sense magazine. issue 266 cover Zaida... (read more)

CUTTING OUT FOSSIL FUELS BY BUILDING COMMUNITY by Jan Lundberg Culture Change Letter # 137 Ecovillages and isotherms http://culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 The urgent need to slash today's extreme consumption of fossil fuels is not a numbers game, nor is it a matter of degree. Rather, it is a matter of reduction in kind.... (read more)

ARGENTINA: Urban Gardens Provide More than Just Food Marcela Valente For the original article click here. BUENOS AIRES, Feb 9 (IPS) - The community gardens initially created to help confront the effects of the late 2001 economic collapse in Argentina have now "grown" into a government-run urban agriculture programme, which provides unemployed workers... (read more)