Population – March 25
Starting from where you are – Sharon Astyk on having four children
The Nation: Europeans do it better
Society
Solutions & Sustainability – Mar 24
How to keep them on the Farm once they’ve seen Manhattan?
Reducing Knowledge Management Failures
JM Greer – Pt3 of review of Korten’s The Great Turning
Energy & empire – March 22
TOD: Entropy and Empire
Meacher:
The rape of Iraq’s oil
Iran conflict would push oil above $100, Yamani says
Sustainability pubs on the move
The Oil Drum is terribly two today
Grist in Outside magazine: What’s so funny?
Conserve: News & analysis for a lasting society
In Canada – Granville magazine
New Irish magazine: Sustainabiity
Water – Mar 20
Pollution, dams, climate change threatening world’s greatest rivers, WWF says
No-Holds-Barred Fight promised over Brazil River Project
Recycled water fight begins
Water prophecy may sink Baillieu
Invasive mussels in SoCal water supply
A hoarders guide to the end of the world
Mention the word “hoarder” in a meeting of organizers and a collective shiver will run down our spines. A hoarding client’s clutter brings us head to head with a vision that is out of balance. Whether a result of unconscious compulsions, chronic shopping, expectations that don’t add up or an inability to reconcile cause with effect, it all comes to bear on the limits of space
The United States and Africa: eyes on the prize
Three concerns – oil, China and the war on terror – are pushing the United States toward greater involvement in Africa.
Environment – Mar 16
Biodiversity extinction crisis looms says renowned biologist
U.S., Europe show gains in forests; rest of world loses ground
Destruction of Forests in Developing World
‘Out of Control’
Fishermen alarmed as sand closes Entrance port
Dysfunction – Mar 15
Iraq: beyond quagmire
Stumbling on happiness
Federal judge finds that Chevron covered up role in murders, torture in Nigeria
The Amphetamine of the Intellectuals
This second part of “Round in Circles: a review of David C. Korten’s The Great Turning” looks into the intellectual roots of Korten’s proposed solution for the crisis of industrial society. Will a change of political leadership and ideology actually solve our problems, or is something else going on?
The Peak Oil Crisis: The Portland Report
As someone who is familiar with the literature and follows the peak oil story on a daily basis, I can report that the folks on the Portland Peak Oil Task Force have produced a succinct, outstanding report that should be read by every local official everywhere.
Ticking time bombs and last-minute escapes
Much of the public has up until recently unreflectively embraced the idea that all emergencies will be met with unparalleled heroism that leads to the right solution–no matter how hastily and tardily conceived
