Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Oil prices remained steady this week as the closure of the Keystone pipeline in the US to address possible safety issues balanced bearish news on the Chinese economy. Beijing reported that Q3 saw growth slow to 7.4%, compared to the same period last year.
“We had no idea what was going on in Chicago; were we laggards or social and environmental innovators? So we decided to find out.”
The three sovereign entities in the United States are the federal government, the states and indigenous tribes, but according to Bill Tripp, a member of the Karuk Tribe in Northern California, many people are unaware of both the sovereign nature of tribes and the wisdom they possess when it comes to issues of climate change and natural resource management.
An important book argues that conservationists who focus on creating nature preserves are undermining their own cause. To truly protect biodiversity, environmentalists must support the global struggle of peasant farmers for human rights, land, and sustainable agriculture. In any discussion of biodiversity and species extinction, someone insists that overpopulation is the problem. More people equals more farms equals less wilderness equals more extinctions. Life is a zero-sum game: you can have people and farming OR wildlife and biodiversity, but not both.
The election is now just weeks away, and I want to urge those whose values are generally in line with mine — progressives, especially activists — to make this goal one of your priorities during this period.
A friend brought me a gift I never dreamed I’d ever see, or rather eat. A loaf of pawpaw bread. Just like banana bread but with pawpaws. Why didn’t I think of that?
*Big Tobacco lawyers target food industry
*How To Compost In Your Apartment
*Why Caring About Food Isn’t An Option, It’s a Responsibility
*Food price crisis: What crisis?
*New EU biofuel proposals inadequate, warns ActionAid
I am currently working on a book-length manuscript with a provisional title of Liberal Expectations. In it I argue that the liberal world-view, and especially the expectations of most liberals, prevent them (us) from grasping the reality and consequences of global warming, peak oil, and other resource depletion and environmental problems,
This week’s post is the third of five parts of a fictional narrative tracing out a scenario of American imperial defeat and collapse. As the war in Kenya reaches a climax, the action shifts to the United States—and to a president who has his back to the wall and very few options left.
A midweek roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Developments this week
My name is Charlotte and I am in Transition. Maybe I should rephrase that and say I’m in the Transition movement, or the Transition network (small n).
*Congress applies pressure to BP over Gulf oil sheen
*US Oil Rig Boom Levelling Off?
*Texas landowners take a rare stand against Big Oil
*Deepwater Permits in U.S. Gulf Exceed Pre-BP Spill Level
