The Bay Area Peak Oil group has a listserve that is integrated with this site. To send and receive emails, you will need to sign up. If not have not already done so, register at http://www.postcarbon.org/user/register. Then come back to http://www.postcarbon.org/groups/bayarea and click the Join link on the... (read more)

Earth Policy Institute News Release http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/PB3/index.htm “In late summer 2007, reports of ice melting were coming at a frenetic pace. Experts were ‘stunned’ when an area of Arctic sea ice almost twice the size of Britain disappeared in a single week,” writes Lester R. Brown in his new book, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing... (read more)

#wrap { padding: 0px 50px; } To be published in the The Ecozoic Reader (www.ecozoicstudies.org). While the planet as a whole is at the end of the Cenozoic era, we humans are at the end of the first half of the age of oil. Petroleum, or “rock oil”, was created during a... (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)