Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Couldn’t this Green culture that we are nurturing here in the San Francisco Bay Area become part of our cultural pride and identity, that we then spread to the entire state of California? … Perhaps the Chronicle was not far off in using the headline “heartbreaking” about the Bay oil spill. As one activist pointed out, “It is in the breaking of the heart that we truly discover what it is we feel compelled to do.”
The world’s unsustainable population
Three’s a crowd
The strategy that I have been pursuing to deal with the multiple threats to the Earth is to embed myself within certain institutions, especially schools and churches.
Cloth toilet paper and peak oil… There are some ideas you run into once and immediately say “Why didn’t I think of that” and implement it in your own life, but there are many other things where the first time you confront an idea, you can’t do much more than file it away as a weird factoid. Without context and familiarity, it is just too hard and too strange.
A number of writers on peak oil now insist that the American political class intends to impose a “feudal-fascist” regime on the world. A look behind this rhetoric exposes some uncomfortable issues in the contemporary peak oil movement.
If we call those pessimistic about the future “Doomers,” what do we call those who are blindly and enthusiastically optimistic? We might call such optimism a “Panglossian Disorder” and the Peak Shrink suggest that it is a tough, culturally ubiquitous disorder to treat.
UK’s towns on ‘the road to enlightenment’
Chicago takes a shine to Portland
Wales: How green is my valley?
Post-carbon cities and the future of growth
High oil prices push giant shifts in wealth, power
Indian ties with Russia to reach ‘great heights’: PM
Rebuttal to NY Times Venezuela article
The means don’t justify the end over oil
Venezuela proposes OPEC change oil pricing method
The destructive search for military control amid acute environmental constraint highlights the prescience of pioneering work on global sustainability. (The Club of Rome and The Limits to Growth )
High-priced oil adds volatility to power scramble
A map of the oil world
Iraq oil production and export hit new high
Skepticism greets new US Africa Command
No more complaints about the media! Read this so you’ll be ready when a reporter calls. Or if you want to write better articles.
How to save the planet – did they get it right?
A Code of ethics for sustainability professionals
What future Brighton?
Lay Catholic community Agape
