Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
In recent years, people have applied the CSA idea to other types of goods and services such as dining out, microbrews, and even fish. It’s a system that works for both producers and consumers.
What happened in Ferguson could happen where you live, for while race and poverty are important, this tragedy seems to have fed off more pervasive flaws in the culture.
It is a staple of apologists for the chemical and fossil fuel industries to say, "We have no proof that what you are talking about is dangerous." Let me restate that in probabilistic terms: "We are highly uncertain about the harm of what you are talking about."
It was Elinor Ostrom who began to speak of nestedness as one of the key components of a successful co-governance of the commons.
All over the world, there are waves of distress, anxiety, and depression, which are based on circumstance and not merely on brain chemistry gone awry… What are more useful perspectives to get through the night here at the possible end of days?
A roundup of the news, views and ideas from the main stream press and the blogosphere.
It’s one thing to suggest, as I did in last week’s post here, that North America a few centuries from now might have something like five per cent of its current population. It’s quite another thing to talk about exactly whose descendants will comprise that five per cent.
Something historic happened in America after the housing crash. For the first time in about a century, cities began growing faster than suburbs.
Transportation continues to generate a large proportion of emissions worldwide, even as emissions from other areas of the economy fall.
A roundup of the news, views and ideas from the main stream press and the blogosphere.
For millennia to come, the peoples of North America will have to contend with drastically expanded deserts, coastlines that in some regions will be many miles further inland than they are today, and the presence of dead zones where nuclear or chemical wastes in the soil and water make human settlement impossible.
Last year, as New York City prepared to launch bike-share program Citi Bike, naysayers grumbled about the 10,000 additional bicycles soon to join the streets of the Big Apple.
