Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Amanda Kovattana Mention the word “hoarder” in a meeting of organizers and a collective shiver will run down our spines. A hoarding client’s clutter brings us head to head with a vision that is out of balance. Whether a result of unconscious compulsions, chronic shopping, expectations that don’t add up or an inability to reconcile cause with effect, it all comes to bear on the limits of space
The bulk of scientific research remains focused on manipulating and dominating the natural world rather than finding ways to live sustainably in it.
John Howard’s ideas on climate change have been influenced more by business than science. Marian Wilkinson explains how Australia was dealt out of the greenhouse revolution.
Three concerns – oil, China and the war on terror – are pushing the United States toward greater involvement in Africa.
Europeans do it better: learning to live with population decline
World’s population of elderly exploding
World population may reach 9.2 billion by 2050
I don’t think I can be the only person who finds in myself a strong degree of psychological resistance to the whole subject of climate change. I just don’t want to think about it. Part of the problem is one of scale. Global warming is as a subject so much more important than almost anything else that it is difficult to frame or discuss. [Excerpts]
Arctic could have iceless summers by 2100
Warmest winter on record
Alberta is Canada’s top GHG polluter
Climate change ended Angkor
Clean coal technology ‘a lost opportunity’
Abu Dhabi: Turning to the sun in the land of oil
Green energy enthusiasts also bet on fossil fuels
Can renewable energies be turned to a source of advantage by developing countries?
Report: Oil sands costs up 55 percent
Oil versus tar: Here’s where it gets sticky
Fort MacMurray oil
Profiles in municipal sustainability
Company fuels Second Harvest during Alberta’s fuel crisis
Earth: Home sweet home (animation)
Blogs can top the presses
Army foresees natural gas crisis
Peak Oil Task Force recommends Portland cut fossil fuel use
Prophecy, peak oil and the path for the faithful
Paul Roberts points out signs at energy crossroads
Movie review: “How Cuba Survived Peak Oil”
Big Gav: Peak oil in 30 seconds
Lester Brown: The coming decline of oil
A short history of what man covets
most – STUFF
The end of garbage
Britons throw out a third of all food
Kovattana: A hoarders guide to the end of the world
