Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Gene Logsdon It is no surprise that gardening and farming inspire art. The partnership between nature and humans in the act of producing food can’t help but produce beauty too. A shelf full of home-canned vegetables means food security, but the real reason we delight in them is that the food just looks so pretty sitting there in rows in the cellar. The act of laying by food is its own reward even before we eat the stuff.
A recently conducted survey of members of the global ‘Peak Oil Community’ has revealed wide-ranging negative expectations for the world in the twenty first century but also optimism on an individual basis. The findings show a view of the world drastically affected by declining global supplies of oil, expected to occur from 2007 to 2013. The effects of peak oil suggested will be wide ranging, with increases in crime, war and nationalism, and decreases in urban working, health and global population levels.
The UN is working on a global climate treaty to be completed at a conference December 7-18 in Copenhagen. Leaders have delayed on climate issues for 20 years, and many believe this is the last big chance before the window of opportunity closes for good. This fall activists are devising both creative and dramatic actions to send a strong message prior to Copenhagen: that equitable, science-based legislation is required before it is too late.
-The Future of Nuclear Energy: Facts and Fiction Part III: How (un)reliable are the Red Book Uranium Resource Data?
-Obama Has Fanned the Flames of Nuclear Development
-India plans to cut carbon and fuel poverty with untested nuclear power
-Communist China celebrates 60th anniversary with instruments of war and words of peace
-China vows to crack down on industrial overcapacity
-China, U.S. risk rifts in Middle East: former Chinese envoy
-Nigeria and China’s oil deal still a secret
-Parades and protests mark China’s National Day
The this week was largely on a downward trajectory despite tensions over Iran’s nuclear program, until Wednesday, when the US posted lower than anticipated stockpile figures…
-Will investors show an appetite for local food?
-Can farmland be saved without the farmer?
-USDA grant program benefits farmers market producers
-Grass-finished beef market sees exponential growth
-County to hear local food plan
Plenty of people think of metaphysics as one of those abstruse topics that give otherwise unemployable academics something to do with their time. Meanwhile the industrial world lurches toward disaster along a trajectory marked out, in part, by a common metaphysical error. The Archdruid explains, in this second post of a series.
-Ecuador, Indians trade blame for bloody clashes
-Greenpeace protesters target Alberta oilsands again
-Nigeria’s oil rebels name mediators
-Democrats unveil ambitious draft climate change bill to the US Senate
-E.P.A. Moves to Curtail Greenhouse Gas Emissions
-Kerry-Boxer: A second chance for progressives
-Population Growth Steady in Recent Years
-Stop blaming the poor. It’s the wally yachters who are burning the planet
-The coming Population Wars: a 12-bomb equation
-Mark Thurstain-Goodwin Responds to Colin Tudge on ‘Can Totnes and District Feed Itself?
-Under the Clinton Global Initiative, Growing Power takes its grassroots-agriculture model to Africa
-Americans turn to backyard chickens for food, security
-Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilisation?
-Critic’s Notebook: From earth to table, in more ways than one
