Manufactured nightmares
There is nothing that says, “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here,” quite like a trip to China with Edward Burtynsky, an internationally known Canadian photographer.
Society
Kunstler on America – Jan 15
Kunstler: Disarray – The US economy has entered a black hole
“Kunslter was right” files: Heating costs the IED of suburbia
Empty houses home to crime as loans fail
Personal – Jan 10
Stress of blogging can be a hazard to your health
How to reduce, prevent and cope with stress
Sharon Astyk: On finding my work
Middle East and Russia – Jan 10
Cleric calls for energy saving in Iran
Shell and Total square up over gasfield in Iraq’s Sunni heartland
Russia scaremongering cranked up again
Russia’s new Abbott and Costello defense
Deep thought – Jan 9
Comparative planetology: interview with Kim Stanley Robinson
Does the future need a legal guardian?
Jared Diamond: What’s your consumption factor?
Dr. Albert Bartlett in depth (transcript)
Dysfunction – Jan 9
£1,290 car delights Indians, horrifies greens
Thieves target catalytic converters
Are the suburbs a health hazard?
Petrochemicals in beauty aids
Junk mail box
Media & activism – Jan 9
Reality TV “Dumped” – 11 volunteers marooned in a South London rubbish dump
Buzzwords 2007
How to diversify environmentalism?
Growing importance of nonprofit journalism
Looking backward – Jan 9
John Michael Greer (Archdruid Report) on Spengler, Toynbee and the decline of the American empire
Classicist: I stopped cheering for the Romans
A question of blame when societies fall
Noble or savage?
Hallowing the descent
Quaker writer John Yungblut used the ways of thinking he found to deal with his Parkinson’s disease to provide a new way “into” times of personal and collective hardship.
Water – Jan 2
Great Lakes record lows
Thirsting for answers in dry Georgia
Water and health: 88% of diseases caused by bad drinking water and hygiene
Population – Dec 24
Fertility rate in USA on upswing
Humanity is the greatest challenge
Driving the human ecological footprint
Who Knew? Albert Bartlett interview
The crisis that dares not say its name
The third rail of world politics
The U. S. Social Security system is said to be the third rail of American politics; touch it and you die. Politically, that is. But there is another broader issue that seems to have become the third rail for world politics: overpopulation.
