Jon Steinman

Deconstructing Dinner: Exploring Ethnobiology I: Preserving traditional foodways among indigenous youth

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As people throughout the Western world are increasingly seeking to reconnect with their food, there’s a lot to be learned from the many peoples who have long maintained these dynamic relationships between their sustenance and the earth. Ethnobiologists research these very relationships through a scientific lens and it’s a field of study bringing together many disciplines like anthropology,ecology and conservation to name just a few.

Peak oil and apocalypse then

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Interview with Oxford researcher, Jörg Friedrichs, whose article “Global energy crunch: how different parts of the world would react to a peak oil scenario” is due to appear in the scientific journal, “Energy Policy.” Summary: Responses would range from predatory militarism to authoritarian retrenchment and the mobilization of local resilience.

Interview with Chris Martenson

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Chris Martenson is the creator of the “Crash Course,” an online tutorial that explores the connections between the economy, energy and the environment. After working as a research scientist, he earned an MBA and spent about a decade in the corporate world, ending as vice president in a company doing high level consulting to the life sciences industry. Then “I stumbled across the information that is now enshrined in the Crash Course and that changed my life forever.”

Limit our oil consumption: drive less

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The gusher far beneath the gulf is spouting a message that the era of easy oil is over, or they wouldn’t be drilling that deep. But there’s a response we can have other than just complaining about blackened pelicans, ruined shrimp, and tar ball beaches.