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I haven't posted in a while due to being busy with life and work.

Here are some of the top issues for 2007:

It’s the energy and the economy, stupid - the most important issues of our collective future, whether we realize it or not

Top 10 Green stories of the Year - the biggest environmental news of the year

Top 10 Sustainability stories of the year - the biggest "what we're doing right" stories in state and local government

I am also unhappy and hope you are too. That the world can be a better place and we are the ones we have been waiting for to be the change we want to see. There is hope of recapturing our own humanity and a "rematch."

Educate yourself:
http://www.stopglobalwarming.org
http://www.gnn.tv
http://www.sustainlane.com
http://www.fromthewilderness.com
http://www.energybulletin.net
http://www.theoildrum.com

Books :: first three from Worldchanging blog
- The weather makers (Tim Flannery)
- Heat (George Monbiot)
- The Rough Guide to Climate Change
Natural Capitalism (alameda county library) -- also see Ecology of Commerce.
Lives Per Gallon (amazon) -- by Terry Taminen who heads up Schwartzenegger's climate action plans. I listened to him at the commonwealth club in November. Makes cogent arguments about the real cost of our "oil addiction" and knows who's footdragging, what the real social and environmental costs (drags) are for all of us, and what we need to do. (In two words, stop driving.)
The Party's Over (amazon) -- by Richard Heinberg of PostCarbon.org and a prof at New College. Lays out the background behind rising oil prices and why they will go higher until at some point there is no oil left at all. Also see Powerdown, a book of solutions and implementations for getting off easy modernity and relocalizing back to communities. Covers oil production and population growth.
Powerdown (amazon) -- see above
Twilight in the Desert (library) -- reading this now, investment banker and Bush family friend Matt Simmons analyzes Saudi Arabia's past and future oil producing capabilities, and covers the consequences of future oil depletion to the way we live. Also covers oil production and population growth.
The End of Suburbia (library) -- a perversely cynical but highly intentioned version of the above books.
Crossing the Rubicon (amazon) -- looks into the means, motive, and opportunity for facilitating 911 and the ensuing oil wars -- a race to the bottom of the barrel, clipping civil liberties, and ensuring a fascist future in America.

An Inconvenient Truth
Happy Feet
Final Fantasy
Blood Diamond
The Pursuit of Happiness
Crack the CIA

Enjoy and have a safe new year!

Agent Y.