The Environment – Climate Change
Desdemona Despair site
US National Snow & Ice Data Center
NOAA temperature records through Nov. 2015
2020 biodiversity target commitments will be missed
Americans lag world acknowledging climate change
Review of Climate Denier Information
List of world weather records
Wyoming mountains snow free, first time in history
Global Change Master Directory
97% scientific agreement on human caused climate change
World Meteorological Organization Climate Summary 2012
U.S. 2014 Freeze and Global Warming
85% thinner Arctic ice – Sci. Am. 2015

Carbon Sequestration
Biochar vs. Compost – Treehugger video

Economics
U.S. Cities that economically exclude working class citizens

Food
Food is a major key to sustainability
UN Food report May 2015
Wiki Food Security Information Article
Collapse of the Atlantic northwest cod fishery
A link between food prices and social unrest
Corruption of the FDA
Scientific American Discussion
Bill McKibben’s Rolling Stone Article
Global Agriculture Projection – Science 2.0 2014

Global Warming – CO2 / Methane – Confirmation
Short history of Greenhouse gas emissions law in the U.S. (Thanks to Beth at Techedlab for this reference.)
U.S. Methane Leaks
How Atmospheric Warming Works – American Chemical Society
Carbon Dioxide Information and Analysis Center
Explanation for CO2 lag in Al Gore’s presentation
Index and web access to U.N. resolutions
Methane bubbles in the Arctic
Scripps CO2 update
Greenhouse Energy Budget
Vostok Pedit data plots
CO2 concentration dynamics in the atmosphere
Co2 / Global Warming Link Found
The Carbon Capture Report
Koch-Funded Study Finds Global Warming Real, Due To CO2
Ronald Prinn Odds Much Worse Study
Methane contribution of western animal diets – McWilliams
Providing All Global Energy with Wind, Water, and Solar Power – UC Davis

Global Warming – CO2 / Methane – Denial
Summary of CO2 disbelief in 2011
Update on Easterbrook projections 2014
Critique of Easterbrook presentation 2012
Don Easterbrook disputes NOAA claims 2011

Housing
U.S. Rent Unaffordable in EVERY State – HuffPost

Infrastructure
Failing bridges 2013
Transportation for America Maps and Tools

Minerals
Paris Tech review of mineral resource supply – 2013
Europe sounds the alarm on mineral shortage – 2010
Chart showing abundance of all elements in the earth’s crust

Nuclear Power
The problems of Thorium power
Energy Returned on Energy Invested for Nuclear Power – Hanson

Ocean Destruction
Ocean parameters pushed beyond limits not seen in 300 million years
International Programme on the State of the Ocean

Oil
Peak Oil – New economic science Inst for Policy R&D
Thomas Homer-Dixon Newsletter on Peak Oil
Long list of websites that address Peak Oil and Resource Depletion – Anatoly Karlin
Misleading government methods used to over estimate oil availability
Does the U.S. really have more oil than Saudi Arabia
Jay Hanson Audio Interview on the Reality Report with Jason Bradford
Dalai Lama & Nobel Laureates letter to stop Keystone XL pipeline
Obama Fast Tracks Keystone XL South

Population
Global divorce statistics
World Population Meter
Population Reference Bureau
Survey of attitudes about reducing family size
U.S. population graph
U.S. Immigration map – interactive
Excellent Zero Growth resource, Ken Meyercord, Founder
The Role of Population Limitation in Sustainability
U.N. projection of 9.6B population by 2100

Renewable Energy
China tries floating solar power
Alice Friedemann’s critical review of Stanford’s Jacobson and Delucchi all electric U.S. by 2050
Ted Trainer’s critical review of Stanford’s Jacobson and Delucchi all electric U.S. by 2050
Not enough wind, solar, geothermal to replace fossil and nuclear power in the 11 western states of the WECC
John Morgan – ROI for different power sources

Sea Level Rise
Greenland Ice Sheet Melt Nearing ‘Tipping Point’
Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier – 2014 update

Transportation
Institute of Transportation Studies – UC Davis

War
Zeitgeist – a movie connecting war to money
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Doomsday Clock
Summary of killing in modern society

Water
Flint Michigan Success in Legal Battle 2017
California one year water remaining warning after unexpected spring rains 2016
California one year water remaining warning 2015
Water table dropping around the world
Water conditions for agriculture in California
USGS Groundwater Availability of the California Central Valley Aquifer
U.S. west without water – past droughts
Pumping California Aquifers is causing land subsidence
U.S. Drought Monitor – U. Nebraska at Lincoln
NOAA Drought Prediction Center
U.S. Drought Portal
The Water Footprint – water resource data
Garden hose ban in the UK due to drought
Drought in California
California Snowpack 2014 vs. 2013

Wildlife
World wildlife populations halved in 40 years

Wood
Failed American plan to cut forests to control climate
Article abstract with world tree history data
One person needs 1 acre of trees to balance CO2 output
How many trees needed to generate O2 for a single person
The role of wood in world history
Deforestation – Wikipedia Report
Rate of deforestation