Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
-Dumping iron at sea can bury carbon for centuries, study shows
-Geoengineering projects around the world – map
-US geoengineers to spray sun-reflecting chemicals from balloon
-Trial Balloon: A Tiny Geoengineering Experiment
-Geoengineering Could Backfire, Make Climate Change Worse
The pipeline debate is often framed in terms of whether the jobs it will create justify its environmental risks. Let’s ignore those risks for the moment. Forget climate change. Forget leaks. Forget potential damage to streams and aquifers. Now does the pipeline make sense?
Not much.
Dire fire conditions, like the inferno of heat, turbulence, and fuel that recently turned 346 homes in Colorado Springs to ash, are now common in the West. A lethal combination of drought, insect plagues, windstorms, and legions of dead, dying, or stressed-out trees constitute what some pundits are calling wildfire’s “perfect storm.”
In any attempt to comprehend a puzzle, or find a new path, the first requirement is to see, and comprehend, all the components. We wish to add a component, previously unknown, to your considerations.
-Unsettling Infographic Details the Impending Disappearance of World’s Natural Resources
-Maps spark concern over corporate water grab
-Dramatic Time-Lapse Videos Show Changes to Earth’s Surface Using 40 Years of Landsat Images
The drought that is affecting much of the Midwest is scary enough but what makes me even more nervous is the way speculators in the grain futures market are sending grain prices gyrating all over the place as they bet on what will happen next. Betting on the future supply of food is risky business.
Europe is giving new meaning to the term “bootstrapping,” the age-old (virtuous) idea of picking oneself up off the floor after some blow or reversal of fortune has laid you low. The new method might be called “skyhooking” in which a massive rescue apparatus secured at some mysterious point unseen in the clouds lifts whole exhausted nations from their knees in order get them to summer vacation. Hence: the interesting spectacle of an entire continent headed for vacation despite facing utter financial ruin, revolution, and civil war.
I have made repeated references in past posts to the modest off-grid photovoltaic (PV) system I built to cover a large share of our—again modest—electricity usage. By popular demand, I’ll take you on a tour of the system: its history, its composition, and adaptation to my house.
-Frackers Fund University Research That Proves Their Case
-Doing Some Math on Fracking Propaganda
-Industry money and questionable ethics contaminate UT Austin fracking study
-Nationwide Mutual Declines to Cover Fracking
-U.S. calls New York anti-drilling lawsuit premature
– Canadian Couple’s Kitchen Garden Targeted By Authorities
– The world is closer to a food crisis than most people realise
– Small Farmers Creating a New Business Model as Agriculture Goes Local
– Online Solution for Home Gardeners to Profit from Bumper Crop
– Murdoch Censorship Gives the Lie to ‘Freedom of Speech’ Claims
– Journatic worker takes ‘This American Life’ inside outsourced journalism
– Forgive us our Press Passes (audio)
– Aggressive Cluelessness: Then and Now
– The most honest three and a half minutes of television, EVER… (from HBO)
– John Perkins: Occupy the Dam: Brazil’s Indigenous Uprising
– Appalachia Turns on Itself (over coal)
– ‘Deep Green Resistance’ — how not to build a movement
