Deep thought – Mar 31
Friedman: Mother Nature’s Dow
Size, Complexity, and Gluttony
The End of the Women’s Movement
Staff
Economics – Mar 31
How I helped build the bomb that blew up Wall Street
America the Tarnished
Kunstler: Under a Fluorescent Moon
China’s Quid Pro Quo
Food & agriculture – Mar 31
Powerdown Toolkit #6: Deconstructing Dinner
Farmers Face Growing Climate Change Dilemma: Scientist
Forging a Hot Link to the Farmer Who Grows the Food
Why the White House garden matters
A growing interest at Statehouse
Decisions, Decisions: “Blind Spot” or “The Great Sqeeze”?
Always eager to preview Long Emergency, end-of-civilization-oriented documentaries, I recently found myself in a rather blessed quandary. I received review copies of “Blind Spot” from Director Adolfo Doring and Producer Amanda Zakem and “The Great Squeeze” by Director/Producer Christoph Fauchere and Co-Producer, Joyce Johnson, but as I watched both several times, I found it almost impossible to decide which one I preferred.
The food and farming transition: toward a post carbon food system
How can we continue feeding humanity in a future of declining resources and environmental crisis? This 41-page report explores the growing vulnerabilities of the global food system, and the steps needed to transition to a post-carbon food system.
United States – March 30
Cities deal with a surge in shantytowns
Decrying AIG, top officials ask strong new control
California’s jobless rate forecast to pass 12%
NYT repeats coal talking points, try to sabotage Obama’s green energy plans
Economics – March 30
Obama’s Nobel headache: Paul Krugman
Peak oil and peak capitalism
It would be easier for Americans to get a handle on the financial crisis if they knew what it was about
In Levi factory town in Hungary, promise of globalization fades
Monbiot: Green oil may buy us new deal for environment — but at what price?
A few thoughts on religions and on belief systems
It seems like we encounter quite a number of secular belief systems, such as:
1. The Oil Drum, and our message
2. Contemporary economic theory (several different flavors)
3. He who dies with the most toys wins.
4. Beautiful bodies are everything.
5. Technology will solve all problems…
Water & environment – 30 Mar
Senate Testimony on the Energy Water Nexus
Drought Turns Water Into a Cash Crop
Water meters in every home ‘will prevent shortages’
Peak oil review – Mar 30
A weekly review including:
– Production and Prices
– Natural Gas Prices Continue to Fall
– The Next Oil Price Spike
– Briefs
After the bird strike
Against the backdrop of widespread economic carnage, the fact that global oil production likely peaked last summer seems almost irrelevant. The prevailing meme has long been that since oil created prosperity, peak oil would devastate it-but derivatives launched a pre-emptive strike.
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 30
Heirloom Design
Collapse Forward
Can the West cultivate ideas from Cuba’s ‘Special Period’?
Maintaining spiritual wholeness as the economy and political order come apart (video)
