Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
We will have to be much more imaginative as a people if we are to take meaningful action to deal with global warming. It is a simple truth that economic activity that transforms the Earth into consumer products is the main problem.
It is particularly likely that ethical dilemmas will arise during the redesign of the healthcare system as a response to peak oil. This is because there will be a conflict between what is best for society as a whole, versus what is best for the individual.
Traffic disaster towers over L.A.
Texas view on environment is 18 lanes wide
Burtynsky photos on consumerist capitalism
The end of the world as they know it
[On a trip to China to talk about energy,] I was pleasantly surprised when they began their discussion of energy by saying post-oil. They get it.
About 5 months into the Compact, I dreamt that I was at Crate & Barrel buying lamps and furnishings I didn’t need. At which point I thought to myself, “Oh no, I’m going to have to confess my purchases to the Compact Group.”
Absent from most of the discussions of the motives of peak oil “doomers” is the role that old myths in new clothes play in today’s culture. Can we think about the future at all without trying to impose mythology on it?
‘Ethical pharmaceuticals’ could change world politics?
Unconsumption
What’s the key to bright green cities?
Yes! Building a just, sustainable compassionate world
New quest in British politics: public happiness
Father of energy efficiency to get Fermi Award
Klare: Emerging energo-fascism (part 2)
Rep Ron Paul: escalation in the Middle East
Iraq cultivating ties with Iran
Oil’s vital new power
Iran and Venezuela plan anti-U.S. fund
Iraq’s billions & the White House connection
Oil, the elites, and the commons
USA lends oil-helping hand to former Soviet republics
Commentary on the recent film.
China: New wealth and its discontents
Advertisers: Your life is totally vile
Affluenza: Earn more, spend more, want more
My cure for affluenza (ecovillage)
The price of bling
Partly by accident I have been without a car for well over a year. What ensued was a suburban adventure through the tract housing that I regard as something like reverse exploration, a search for passage from this new and strange place to something older, familiar and more accessible. The development ringing the city suggests clans of a vast tribe. If they had a common name maybe it would be ‘Suburbanites’.
The petrodollars poser
Petrodollars funding US deficit
Petrodollar power poses a bigger threat than China
Russia opts for some roulette with mighty petrodollar fund
