Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
I was asked this by a friend recently, and it has been stuck in my head (even though the whole idea requires an egomaniacal suspension of disbelief). "If you could sit down to dinner with the people you think see the world we’re in most clearly and spend dinner working on how to change things and be ready for a crisis, who would you invite to eat with you?" He added the caveat that I can have as many people as I want, and no, I don’t have to cook and clean up.
Serial climate hacker Russ George (Planktos) leads indigenous villagers to dump iron into the sea – a secret geoengineering project off Canada’s West Coast. Press conference statements by the Haida Old Massett Village Chief, interview with Living Oceans’ Karen Wristen, Russ George clips from interview by Guardian’s Martin Lukacs.
Cities across the U.S. discover that good biking attracts great jobs and top talent to their communities
We’re excited to announce that our new site Resilience.org is live and ready for you to explore. Resilience.org will soon be the new home of Energy Bulletin, as we broaden our scope to provide tools to effect change.
Ever since we first got together my husband and I have talked about how to respond to one of our key shared interests — peak oil.
The centralized creation of money and credit has a profoundly negative effect on local economies, sovereignty, and cohesiveness. Bankers value profit at all costs, while locally-controlled institutions tend to hold other values – like community, justice and sustainability – more highly.
As farmers struggle to keep up with soaring demand for grain and soybeans, this ratcheting upward of food prices ensures that many of the 219,000 new guests at the global dinner table each night are facing empty plates.
*The murky future of U.S. shale gas
*After the Boom in Natural Gas
*US natural gas boom claims first nuclear plant
*Report sees economic boost from unconventional oil and gas
*US fracking sites impact health – report
*UK public favours wind turbines over shale gas wells, poll finds
This post is about the hopeful idea that technology is going to save us from having to adapt to descent. A recent article describes an episode of geopiracy to geoengineer the ocean, so we’re back at climate again, since this example provides particular insights and illustrations into our blindspots about the limits to growth and the limits of technology.
To get a handle on the Promoting Local Food Act tabled in the Ontario legislature on October 4, it helps to know the difference between government support and government policy. If you choose door 1 and get support, you’re in luck. If you choose door 2 and get policy, that’s the booby prize.
No, shale gas won’t entirely go away anytime soon. But expectations of continuing low prices are about to be dashed. And notions that the U.S. will become a major gas exporter, or that we will convert millions of cars and trucks to run on gas, now ring hollow.
*Whistleblower forced investigation of TransCanada Pipelines
*Aging Pipeline Poses Threat to Great Lakes, Report Says
*Enbridge, B.C. pipeline spat gains new traction
