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May 17, 2013
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A Desire Named Streetcar
Twentysomethings are eschewing their cars in never-before-seen numbers for alternate forms of transit...Energy |
May 17, 2013
Peak oil - May 17
•Supply shock from North American oil rippling through global markets …Popular
Rethinking hot dinners and cold drinks
Data sometimes hurts, especially when it hits home. Just when it …
Food & Water |
May 17, 2013
Mundraub.org: Sharing our common fruit
In a rural area in the former East Germany, late summer 2009: Shimmering heat, the intense odor of fermenting fruits is in the air. A tree covered …
Environment |
May 17, 2013
'Follow the Money': How Rainforest Action Network Is Beating the Corporate Giants
We’ve arrived at a dangerous milestone. For the first time in human history, as Amy Goodman reported this week, "the amount of …Editor's Pick
Governance in the Long Emergency
It is time to talk about important things. Why have we come so close to the brink of extinction so carelessly and casually?Society |
May 17, 2013
Don't Trust Your Stone Age Brain: It's Unsustainable
Humans have evolved to feel a single sense of self, but our emotional brain …Economy |
May 17, 2013
Deep Green Jobs
America's green jobs movement parades as many green hues as our national …Environment |
May 17, 2013
Why I haven’t been flying (much)
Over three decades I have received many requests to travel across Australia …
Energy |
May 17, 2013
Unburnable: Risky Fossil Fuel Investments & Climate Crisis
Two new reports say climate change could cause the next financial …
Environment |
May 16, 2013
Why I’m marking passing 400 ppm by getting back on an aeroplane
I refuse to accept that the lurch to 500ppm, 600ppm, 800ppm is an inevitability. I refuse to accept, as Nigel Lawson tried to argue in his debate with the remarkably patient Kevin Anderson on Jeremy Vine’s radio show recently, that doing …Energy |
May 16, 2013
Peak oil notes - May 16
A mid-week update. While oil prices are little changed this week, there has been considerable news concerning the energy markets. Bad economic reports from Europe, the US, and China have helped keep pressure on the markets and raised fears of …Food & Water |
May 16, 2013
Counting the Calories and calories
As soon as we step out of our homes in pursuit of food, we cross an …Energy |
May 16, 2013
What if there is Peak Oil?
So here is the dirty little secret of our civilization: It runs...energy …Food & Water |
May 16, 2013
The Corporate Enclosure of Seeds Intensifies
If you think that a farmer ought to be able to use the seeds from one crop …Food & Water |
May 16, 2013
Lawns Of Purple and Gold
We burn 800 million gallons of gas mowing lawns, and statisticians say that …Society |
May 16, 2013
The Pleasures of Extinction
The latest apocalyptic fad is near-term human extinction, or NTE for short: …Economy |
May 16, 2013
"What Then Must We Do: Straight Talk About The Next American Revolution"
Gar Alperovitz's keynote speech at "The Summit" at Appalachian …
Society |
May 16, 2013
"Apocalyptic Journalism" and Why We Need Reporters to Face the Reality of Our Crumbling Society
We have no choice but to deal with the collapse of journalism, but we also …Economy |
May 15, 2013
Reexamining Rationing
Recent interviews with Stan Cox author of Any Way You Slice It: The …Environment |
May 15, 2013
The NR35 Dead-Hedgers Society
It just so happened that the five of us who turned up at Richard’s on …
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