Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Olga Bonfiglio Caitlin Flanagan of The Atlantic Monthly objects to school garden programs because they take time away from the academic subjects. However, gardens can integrate academics with knowledge about food, reading & writing, entrepreneurship, and health.
New information prompts another look at the global supply of lithium, used in renewable batteries, and a major choice for use in the batteries of electric vehicles, such as the Chevy Volt.
-American Blitzkrieg: loving the German war machine to death
-This isn’t Falklands II
-Yemen’s water crisis eclipses al Qaeda threat
-Barclays and Bank of America see looming oil crunch
– China’s CNPC in Iran gas deal
-Saudi Arabia fears a peak in oil demand – and it’s going green, sort of
– OPEC strategy reveals that they’re 100% short-term focused, and sure Of peak oil
It’s really important to get that we’re not creating a movement. Directing, guiding, or nudging perhaps, but not creating. We need to supply the “thread” onto which to string all the “beads” of positive, resilience-oriented action
Science has a paper on the changes to the current global food system required to support the expanded global population we’ll see in a couple of decades time, noting that radical changes to agriculture will be required to support 9 billion people.
It’s easy to envision great and heroic personal sacrifice for a cause. Many of us think of think of ourselves as leaders in and members of a resilience building army. But the moment we have to step up and truly embody the mission, a lifetime of conditioning dulls our charge.
There is no more important question for us to grapple with than the question of how our community and larger society should be organized. We need to clarify what we mean by ‘community’ and think about what design we should strive for, because if you want sustainability and equality at the end of the day, you have to build them in at the start.
The mood amongst oil company executives meeting in London this week for the Petroleum Week conference was largely bullish, with global oil demand expected to recover this year as the world economy crawls out of recession. But the production side of the equation is becoming increasingly difficult and expensive…
Bill Gates is right that we need more funding, support, and attention applied to energy technology. But if we truly seek to fashion a sustainable future, we need just as much applied to laws, regulations, infrastructure, economics, behaviors, and values. We need to innovate a new way of being in the world, not just new tools.
Here is a post offering hope to those who consider themselves ’spaced out,’ ADHD (attention deficit), scattered, air-headed, a Space Cowboy, forgetful, inconsistent, unreliable and the like. There IS hope for you, and you can prep.
You know you’re living in a chaotic situation when (1) the mainstream media are constantly surprised by what is happening; (2) short-term predictions by various pundits go in radically different directions and are stated with many reserves; (3) the Establishment dares to say things or use words that were previously taboo; (4) ordinary people are frightened and angry but very unsure what to do.
