Dirty tactics to defend a dirty industry
The stakes could not be higher. Everything hinges on stopping coal
Coal's future is safe - but what about the climate?
Green groups drop opposition to Texas coal plant

How to go to Climate Camp - and enjoy it
Melting ice threatens Arctic park
Sierra warming: Climate change puts heat on high country

Barbara Ehrenreich has a wonderful essay on the way we’re turning on ourselves in response to the financial crisis - and how we should be turning our anger outwards. She’s right - and it isn’t just suicide. Depression, domestic violence, child abuse - all of these are on the rise, and in large part due to the fact that people are poorer, scared and frustrated. Ehrenreich writes of the move to respond to the financial bad news by destroying yourself that we’re aiming in the wrong direction:

A mid-week update on peak oil, including:
-Production and prices
-The bombs of Nigeria

Brown blunders in pledge to secure Nigeria oil

Climate campaigners threaten to invade and shut down power plant
Britons spurning foreign holidays as economy dips

Peak toil: A fable of the future?

It’s happening in Belgium, Scotland, and Spain, in India, South Korea, Nepal, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Italy, Portugal, Greece, France…

What might we expect from the average working-class American, as economics in this country continue to worsen? Will they organize in labor unions or protest as isolated individuals expressing their individual sense of hopelessness and despair? Will it be sparked by some “organized” movement, or from some shift in their internal emotional reality? Frank Lee gives his future fantasy version of what he sees could be coming, and folks, it isn’t pretty…Kathy McMahon

Protesting truckers bring chaos to New Zealand city streets
German truckers plan to join world fuel-price protests
Truckies threaten two-week strike

Your brain lies to you
AP took it to the wire but needs to rethink its role (Associated Press vs bloggers)
Here Comes Everybody - falling in love with the Internet all over again
Chinese bloggers scale the 'Great Firewall' in riot's aftermath

Will Obama inspire a new generation of organizers?
Real change happens off-line
Grassroots lobbying: use ideas, not one-click campaigns
Printable flyers for use in community organizing

Michael Klare: End of the petroleum age?
Former President Bush energy adviser says oil is running out (Simmons)
Growing prices, demand raise uncomfortable questions
Peak scam