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May 21, 2013
by Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
•At margins of shale oil boom, a tempered euphoria •Fracking envy •Radioactive fracking debris triggers worries at dump sites •Poland’s shale gas hopes suffer blow •Poland Shale Boom Falters as State Targets Higher Taxes •The fight for North Dakota's …
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May 21, 2013
by Gustavo Esteva, The Wealth of the Commons
These notes offer a quick glance to ways, in the south of Mexico, in which people are regenerating the society from the bottom up. It is a new kind of revolution without leaders or vanguards....
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May 21, 2013
by Matt Mushalik, Crude Oil Peak
We have a race between peak oil and global warming. Symptoms of these complex processes pop up every now and then.
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May 21, 2013
by Helen Camakaris, Meanjin Quarterly
During the Pleistocene evolution favored those humans who left the most descendants so our evolved instincts encourage us to procreate, seek status and consume resources. Now sustainability is an existential issue and these instincts and our invention of technology are threatening our future.
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May 21, 2013
by Anna Glasser, Food Tank
The Edible Bus Stop (EBS) is a gardening project trying to transform neglected spaces throughout London into vibrant green patches of community engagement. The project is due to launch May 18, 2013 at the Grand Opening event, ‘Donate a Plant’ at the Landor Road Garden.
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May 21, 2013
by Brent Blackwelder, The Daly News
Is any nation on Earth taking seriously the need for a true-cost economy, where we live sustainably in a steady state?
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May 21, 2013
by Jason Heppenstall, 22 Billion Energy Slaves
So, sustainable communities, to me, means keeping out of the way of things that are too big to fail.
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May 21, 2013
by Greg Dalton, Climate One
How can reporting on energy, presented as opportunity or catastrophic risk, compete against grumpy cat memes and economic woes? Is there a secret to breaking through the flood of information to make a meaningful impression on the public?
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May 20, 2013
by Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
• Some of My Best Friends Are Germs
• Bye-Bye Baby Boomers
• The repentant environmentalist: Part 3
• Thanks for coming
• Needed: An ecosocialist cosmovision
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May 20, 2013
by Philip Ackerman-Leist, Post Carbon Institute
Regardless of terminology, one point is writ clear: the most technologically and economically advanced cultures in the world have the highest rates of food waste on the planet
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May 20, 2013
by David Bergman, EcoOptimism
Cycling is a great example of an EcoOptimistic solution, as I’ve written about before. It works on so many angles that it surpasses the win-win-win solutions that I often discuss here.
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May 20, 2013
by Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch
Ten years ago, as a contrarian and a person who prefers not to see others suffer, I tried to undermine despair with the case for hope.
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May 20, 2013
by Anna Springer, Shareable
As Detroit recovers from staggering unemployment due to the mass exodus of the auto industry, small business creation is now being touted by many locals as a better solution for resiliency, higher wages and employment stability than big business recruitment. But starting a new business from a …
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May 20, 2013
by Andrew Ranallo, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
The true economic impact of frac sand mining may fall short of industry claims promising sustained prosperity and economic opportunity, says a first-of-its-kind expert report to be released Wednesday, May 15. By using currently available economic data, The Economic Benefits and Costs of …
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May 20, 2013
by Tom Whipple, ASPO-USA
A weekly update. Including:
-Oil and the global economy
-Middle East
-China at a turning point?
-Quote of the week
-Briefs
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May 19, 2013
by Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
The famous Danish physicist Niels Bohr once humorously observed, "Predictions are very difficult, especially about the future." And so, as the world considers yet another rosy oil supply forecast, this time from the Paris-based International Energy Agency, it is worth reviewing the …
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May 17, 2013
by Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
•Supply shock from North American oil rippling through global markets •The IEA Says Peak Oil Is Dead. That’s Bad News for Climate Policy •Saudis welcome US shale boom •China Seen Boosting Emergency Oil-Storage Capacity, IEA Says •Peak oil, climate change and …
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May 17, 2013
by Katharina Frosch, The Wealth of the Commons
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 with hundreds of juicy pears, and a foot-high layer of rotting fruit on the ground. A stone’s throw away – plums, mirabelles, elder …
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May 17, 2013
by Jeff Turrentine, Onearth
Twentysomethings are eschewing their cars in never-before-seen numbers for alternate forms of transit...
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May 17, 2013
by Tara Lohan, Alternet
We’ve arrived at a dangerous milestone. For the first time in human history, as Amy Goodman reported this week, "the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has topped 400 parts per million."
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May 17, 2013
by Helen Camakaris, The Conversation
Humans have evolved to feel a single sense of self, but our emotional brain is encouraging us to pursue perceived self-interest even if it means trashing the planet, leaving our rational brain to try and justify our actions. Why are our intuitions so poor, and how might we engage rational thinking?
