Deep thought – Oct 22
Comparing What a Way to Go with The 11th Hour
Stop calling me a “doomer”
Desire and the green cure (consumerism)
A strange feeling as a way of life
Society
Developing community constitutions
Can we apply the elements of the Systems Engineering process to create a constitution that ensures a sustainable and open community?
Willits meets the S-curve
It has been a hard lesson: rational explanations of threats such as peak oil and climate change can only get one so far. People in any group or community adopt ideas at different paces based on their orientation toward change.
Population, health & pollution – Oct 19
Are boys an endangered species?
Mother fears ‘stinky neighborhood’ caused son’s cancer
Dioxin pollution leads to more baby girls: study
China’s surplus of sons: Geopolitical time bomb
Harbor seals may help determine effect of eating toxic fish
Transport – Oct 18
Pilot points to airline policy of wasting fuel
Bicycling for transportation pumps money into local economies
After cyclist’s death, Portland aims for safety
The dangers of autobesity
UK road-pricing plans ‘to be shelved’
American malaise – Oct 16
Kunstler: The casino syndrome
Why money doesn’t buy happiness
Why are Americans so fearful?
Cities – Oct 12
Book Review: How to Build a Village
Seattle’s recycling success
Portland gives bike rentals a spin
Climbing down the ladder
Most efforts to devise new social and economic arrangements for the aftermath of peak oil attempt to make the transition to sustainability in a single leap. In the future of slow decline we most likely face, a different strategy may be more useful.
Bicycles – Oct 9
Safe streets: Not pedaling can kill you
Evolution of a bicycle friendly community- Davis
Big cities try to ease way for bicyclists
Population, 3rd World health, happiness
Japan eyes robots to support aging population
Family planning, population and global warming
Debunking third-world myths
American men and women unhappiest at ages 49 and 45
Deep thought – Oct 8
Sharon Astyk: The Fertile Crescent and the closed circle
World moves into the ecological red
The prophet misarmed: Trotsky, ecology and sustainability
Review: Deep Economy by Bill McKibben
Willits and the problem of slow knowledge
After three years, Willits, while still a clear leader in peak oil preparedness, has not achieved nearly the progress envisioned by Bradford and other organizers. While their sense of urgency still remains, they have begun to realize that municipal governments move at what seems like a glacial pace and that public awareness is not the same as public understanding.
