Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Well, Doctor, I have this recycling problem
Tantalising glimpses of resilience (Hunza)
Luz Girl of the Knowing (peak oil cartoon)
Food for body and soul
New models of shared leadership
Shock tactics (displaying electricity usage)
£25 congestion charge will hit 30,000 of worst polluting vehicles, says London mayor
KunstlerCast: Drugstores
L.A. to enact tighter green building standards
Passive survivability – buildings remain livable when electricity, fuel or water are unavailable
New York Times on eco-moms
Sharon Astyk on ‘Pleasures’
Generation Green taking on parents
Going green for 80 cents a day
Infrastructure for the future we want
Peak oil movement in Israel
Sustainability implications of peak population?
Replacing ourselves
Hierarchy must grow, and is therefore unsustainable
Interview with climate scientist Susanne Moser: “A dam works well and for a long time, until one day it breaks. A social movement builds slowly and quietly, until one day it takes off and major political changes become possible. We’re witnessing the building of such a climate protection movement right now.”
We have only to look at historical events to see that it is perfectly possible, for both good and ill, to radically change circumstances in a host of ways that looked completely impossible not very long before.
Does peak oil “make ordinary politics irrelevant”?
Monastery throws switch on green initiatives
Generation Green taking on parents to help them save the planet
How former miners transformed a pit into an energy village
Eco-villages prove to be sustainable
10 ways recession can help the environment
Re-Energize Texas summit – if Texas can do it…
The one-tonne-carbon lifestyle
Making conventions environmentally friendly
Don’t let the green grass fool you (Suburbanites awake)
Alex Steffen: Jim Hansen, Climate Code Red and the atmospheric singularity
Carolyn Baker: Holding vision alongside current reality
Dmitri Orlov: Money as metaphor
The (un?) sustainability of growth
Middle School teacher Aaron Wissner wants to get the word out that energy is about to get very expensive — a Wall Street Journal article would do nicely.
The upside to peak fertilizer
Nitrogen pollution stomps on biodiversity
Astyk: Time for a new Victory Garden movement!
Studies conclude that biofuels are not so green
Fermentation and food: The revolution will not be microwaved
Farming the Amazon with a machete and mulch
Homogeneous horror in agriculture
Bob Waldrop on local food systems
The birth of a farmers’ market
