Call to tackle UK business waste
Save your trash: An interview with Ari Derfel
Eric Lombardi's zero waste park

L'Union soviétique était mieux préparée à l'effondrement que les États-Unis. Translation into French of Dmitry's classic presentation Closing the 'Collapse Gap'. Excerpts.

German churches set up energy firm to fight rising fuel prices
George Monbiot: Climate change is not anarchy's football

UK risks climate leadership over dirty coal, say US groups

Russian behavior is driven to a large extent by the personal strategies and interests of a few individuals at the very top. There is no overarching geopolitical plan, but a lot of political infighting and short term asset-grabbing strategies. That may be even more worrying in itself than purposeful strategies to use the "energy weapon", but the motivations are different. It is true however that the global energy situation allows Russia to be a lot more assertive, or even brutal, on the international stage, and there's little that can be done about that ... [There is something that] Europe can actually do: it controls its own demand, and should focus its efforts on that.

House of Lords suggests lifting VAT from cost of repairing electrical goods
Plan for anaerobic digesters in every town to recycle leftovers
Revealed: the massive scale of UK's water consumption

Stark warning on Britain's shrinking coast
Town that gave itself a licence to print money
Locals barter for beer with food

Ex-pat Steve holidays in England, only to find signs of the effects of peak oil everywhere. Over the period of two weeks a number of newspaper articles confirm that the perfect post-peak storm is brewing in this land, once a proud net exporter of oil.

Soaring fuel prices and green pressures herald comeback for Britain's waterways
Fuel theft increases in the UK
Companies face crackdown on electricity greenwash

Klare: Russia and Georgia: all about oil
Russia starts "Lukewarm War" with the West
Conflict narrows oil options for West

Italy may provide for us an interesting test case economic collapse (although Spain, too, may be in the race). Maybe collapse is too strong a word, but it is clear that things are not going well in Italy.