Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Kelpie Wilson Leonardo DiCaprio’s documentary The 11th Hour is a valuable film and everyone who can get to a theater should go and see it. A more personal treatment of the same ground can be found in What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire.
The ‘Guilty Green’ (gasp!) don’t always recycle
Want not, waste not is the next green step
Vatican penance
Nobel prizewinner Yunus calls for lifestyle ‘traffic rule’ to fight warming
Petroleos de Venezuela to convert accounts away from dollars
Greenspan clarifies Iraq war, oil link
Iraq oil reality vs the NY Times
Wesley Clark: The next war
Shortfalls in Russian oil deliveries to Germany
Can’t we all just … be vegans?
Return of GM in UK: climate concerns may reduce backlash
Fuel shortages may hurt corn harvesting
Make or break time for Australian harvest
Author and economist F. William Engdahl has just made a surprising turnabout on peak oil. He now supports the idea of the abiotic origin of petroleum. (Excerpts from interviews and past articles.)
Toxic jatropha not magic biofuel crop
The biofuel backlash
Farmers tout alfalfa as fuel
Amy Goodman at the “Global Triple Crisis” teach-in (Korten & Shiva)
10 things we can do: Rebuilding civil society
The power of voluntary actions
Can this really save the planet?
Don’t just be the change, mass-produce it
Arctic ice loss: Northwest Passage now open
Bush aide says warming man-made
‘Climate change: The limits of consensus’
Panel Faults Emphasis of U.S. Climate Program
Insurance industry joins climate change fight
Worst places on Earth Are home to millions
We will be known by the junk we throw away
Wider chairs, plumper derrières?
Pollution raises exercise risks
Give the earth a Sabbath day
In Greenland, an interfaith rally for climate change
Environmental awareness taking root in conservative Christian churches
Live the good life in a green mansion
Overweight? Blame your ZIP code
Japan: Overcrowded from cradle to grave
Interview with Lisa McCrory and Carl Russell in rural Vermont who teach a variety of skills for sustainable living, including the use of draft animals in raising organic crops.
