Drive 55 campaign gaining speed
Tall ship Belem delivers wine by sail and saves carbon
The handmade commuter bike

Leading Wall Street water analyst Neil Berlant: Price of water in US to rise up to 300% in next 2-3 years
Millions eating food grown with polluted water, says UN report
Water everywhere, and not a drop to grow
West Bank struggles for water
Can the Dead Sea be brought to life?

Amid all the discussion about peak oil, one voice has been conspicuously absent, that of the Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). OPEC's position on the petroleum-resource question should be the decisive factor in this ongoing and seemingly inconclusive debate. The organization now supplies about 42 percent of the world's petroleum ...

We read in the Bible of war-horses; of horses drawing chariots. But we never find an allusion to horses employed in the tillage of the land; for which by their gentleness, by the nature of the food which they require, by their great docility, oxen seem to have been formed by nature.

The end of cheap clothes is near
Dressing Locally
Waste management

American Conservative on peak oil: Mayberry, not Mad Max
A failure to prepare for the what should have been expected
How to burn the speculators
Unraveling the unraveling

Peak oil is coming, and we're unready
Geoscientist: Peak Oil Now? If so, Oil Prices Not Likely to Decline--Ever
Waking up to the threat of 'peak oil'
Oilwatch Monthly - August 2008

The oxygen crisis
Suffocating dead zones spread across world's oceans
"Green" land grab could sow seeds of new conflict

Bolivia gets the change it asked for
Life is a misery for ‘married bachelors’ in the UAE
Fresh start for Nigerian oil activists?

In the heady month of July 2008 oil skyrocketed to $147 a barrel more than doubling the price of crude over the 12 months to that time. Many thought oil would race past the $150 mark on the way to $200 and to $300 a barrel, and beyond in the imminent year or two ahead.