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Society

Yes! Magazine special: 5,000 Years of Empire: Ready for a Change?

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community /
Portrait of a Perfect Economic Storm /
How Likely Is Collapse? /
Surviving Hard Times; It’s Not for Sissies /
North Korea & Cuba: Peak Oil Preview /
It Takes Energy to Make Energy / More…

June 23, 2006

The politics of oil: the discourse must change

The leaders of both political parties are not only headed in the wrong direction with respect to gas prices, but also fundamentally misunderstand the factors behind the current situation at gasoline stations around the US. Governments should be focused on helping us cure our “addiction to oil.” The answer does not lie in lowering gas prices, which will only encourage people to drive more and further waste our valuable resources.

April 27, 2006

A new environment

Why, after being so implacably opposed for so long to the Kyoto protocol, did the US perform a U-turn yesterday? To the complete surprise of even its closest allies, it announced a new pact with five Asian-Pacific states to cut greenhouse gases. Together the six states – Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea plus the US – account for over 40% of the six global warming gases that are already changing our climate.

July 28, 2005

Society

The Green Dream

The quest for a sustainable, ecologically sensible society in the Pacific Northwest. (Special edition, with several articles, including a long interview with Ernest Callenbach, author of Ecotopia.)

March 24, 2005

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