What Can We Do?
By Rex Weyler, MAHB
Reality 101 addresses humanity’s toughest challenges: economic decline, inequality, pollution, biodiversity loss, and war. Students learn about systems ecology, neuroscience, and economics. “We ask hard questions,” says Hagens. “What is wealth? What are the limits to growth? We attempt to face our crises head on.”
What Can we Do?
By Rex Weyler, Greenpeace
We may benefit if we simultaneously hold two extremes of action; both the huge, universal movements for ecology and justice and the daily, personal actions that help slightly and make us better examples to others.
Worldwide Honey Bee Collapse: A Lesson in Ecology
By Rex Weyler, EcoWatch
We know what is killing the bees.
Real wealth: Howard T. Odum’s energy economics
By Rex Weyler, Energy Bulletin
In the 1970s, Howard T. Odum explained human economics using ecology and energy fundamentals. His work remains essential for ecologists, who imagine achieving “sustainability.” Odum’s energy economics begins with an understanding that energy provides the foundation for all life processes, but that all energy is not equal. As energy is transformed through an ecosystem, quantity decreases as concentration increases.
Nuclear delusions
By Rex Weyler, Greenpeace Blogs
The heating of Earth remains the most urgent symptom of humanity's mismanagement of our technological civilization. Desperately seeking answers for a low carbon energy regime, some observers propose a "nuclear renaissance" to replace hydrocarbons. Nuclear companies, nations, and advocates offer nuclear as a possible "low-carbon" energy path. However, the evidence in hand shows that nuclear energy is not the solution to humanity's energy needs that many hope for. Here are the reasons...
Deep green: Why de-Growth?
By Rex Weyler, Greenpeace Blogs
In 2008, economists and scientists met in Paris to discuss “Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity.” The Degrowth (Décroissance) movement grew from this economic revolution in France. In 2010, a similar conference convened in Barcelona. For the last two years I have helped organize the Degrowth Conference in Vancouver, Canada. Journalists and traditional economists have asked why a degrowth movement is necessary. Here are answers to their questions...