Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
– McKibben, Greenpeace, RAN: We need big, brash, nonviolent climate protests. Are you in?
– Facebook and Twitter are just places revolutionaries go
– Controversialization: A Key to the Right’s Continuing Domination of Public Debates
– 2011 is 1848 Redux. But Worse
Traders have adopted a new yardstick for oil security, and it’s influencing the abrupt climb of oil prices. Call it the Flaming Oil Port Index. It’s a notional appreciation of how many more OPEC countries may see fighting, taking their oil production with them.
Ok, you know about edible landscaping – you’ve replaced your burning bush with blueberries and your spireas with elderberries. You’ve trained that grapevine over the arbor. Now you are eying that space on your front lawn where the perennial border is (or should be or used to be or is in your head). You want flowers. You need flowers because they make you happy. Maybe you have to grow flowers there if you grow much of anything but grass, because of neighbors or zoning laws. Can you grow an ornamental flower garden that is totally edible? Yes. Yes, you can!
– As climate crime continues, who are we sending to jail? Tim DeChristopher?
– Republicans attack Obama’s environmental protection from all sides
– Bill McKibben: My life as a communist
– Barack Obama May Be Forced to Delay US Climate Action
– Who’s Blocking U.S. Action on Climate Change?
– Hillary Clinton: US Losing Information War to Alternative Media (video)
– How WikiLeaks is democratizing journalism, redistributing power and increasing transparency
– In the Age of WikiLeaks, the End of Secrecy?
– The Internet’s Unholy Marriage to Capitalism
– Could a blueprint for a happier and more successful society come a little-known French philosopher?
– Reflections on the Early Global Springtime of Peoples
– 1 million workers. 90 million iPhones. 17 suicides. Who’s to Blame?
I’m writing you today about Tim de Christopher. For you that don’t know his name, here’s a short story: In its last days, the Bush administration was selling off 77 parcels of federal land totaling 150,000 acres for drilling, a last round of favors to the oil and gas industry. The leases were on wilderness areas, including some areas next to national parks. Business as usual. Then a student at the University of Utah named Tim de Christopher showed up.
– Guardian on oil prices: Green light from the black stuff
– China Reportedly Plans Strict Goals to Save Energy
– UK facing 1970s-style oil shock which could cost economy £45bn – Huhne
– Libya, oil production, OPEC responses, Saudi Arabian capabilities and the SPR
– David Strahan: My2050@lastoilshock
So often each of us evaluates the present based on our fantasy of the future. That fantasy has been heavily influenced by the science fiction genre in books and film–a genre which is, of course, an outgrowth of faith in unlimited technological progress.
– Calls Mount to Tap U.S. Oil Reserves
– White House considers tapping oil reserves
– Crude Oil Heads for Its Third Weekly Gain as Unrest Spreads to Middle East
– Oil no immediate threat to recovery; fundamentals different from 2008
– WSJ: U.S. Wavers on ‘Regime Change’
– Video: Libya rebels control oil port
– Saudi Arabia bans public protest
– Muammar Gaddafi’s opposition: How Libya’s revolt has stalled
– In New Food Culture, a Young Generation of Farmers Emerges
– Peak Phosphorus: Is there enough for biofuels at scale?
– The Future is Organic (but it’s more than organic) – report from plant scientist
– (GMO) Alfalfa and Our Future
