Director Josh Tickell takes us along for his 11 year journey around the world to find solutions to America’s addiction to oil. A shrinking economy, a failing auto industry, rampant unemployment, an out-of-control national debt, and an insatiable demand for energy weigh heavily on all of us. Fuel shows us the way out of the…
Month: July 2011
UN Security Council concerned climate change may aggravate threats to peace
On the initiative of small island states, Germany, Britain, the US and other members of the UN Security Council (UNSC) climate change was this week linked to conflict. Steiner and Ki-moon testified to the rationale: “There can be little doubt today that climate change has potentially far-reaching implications for global stability and security in economic,…
I had a full page in a Danish newspaper this week
Page 18 of Dagbladet Information Thursday 21st of July 2011. If you can read and understand Danish proceed to the original online version: information.dk / Økokrig – alle krige handler om naturens ressourcer. If you don’t understand Danish you can try the Google Translate version.
While everyone’s on holiday: Ghosts of the past, crises of the present and warnings for the future
From the distant and near past The Washington Post reports Oil leaks from 233 World War II shipwrecks could threaten US coast as vessels corrode. oil and fuel leaks could devastate coastal communities and environments. NOAA is taking an inventory of more than 30,000 coastal shipwrecks. It has narrowed the worst-threat list to 233 vessels….
Ecowar 2.1
Don’t panic, you’re at Ecowar. I merely changed the good old custom tweaked and heavily bloated design for a fresh standard one. I’m also trying out some new stuff. Some stories develop too fast for a one-man blog to follow. But on the new page Inside the wire, under the radar the job is done…
Wangari Maathai: “If the rivers stop flowing, people will fight.”
Wednesday the 6th of July 2011 Wangari Maathai received a honorary doctorate at Copenhagen University and spoke about her work with the Green Belt movement, the Taking Roots movie and more. Watch her speech, I recorded it for you: [15:39] Protecting forests is extremely important […] also very important for conflict […] many of the…
Water Wars mapped, Ecowar Battlefields map updated
June 2011 both the British Guardian News and the Arab Al Jazeera published world maps of “water wars”. My own Ecowars Battlefields map have been updated accordingly. Below I take a quick look at the main news and features of the two new maps. Al Jazeera: Traditional map with pins at hotspots, links to storiesEssentially…