Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff Recession has taken toll on alternative energy
Canals and rivers to lead micro-hydropower revolution
Locavolts or Super Grids? Where to Source Clean Energy?
Warnings Grow Louder About Global Data Center Power Crisis
Amazon rainforest could shrink by 85% due to climate change
Dramatic new sea level figures
Land use and density affect fires in Indonesia
Best and brightest minds underestimated how quickly we’re scorching the atmosphere
Argonne National Laboratory report: Water issues associated with heavy oil production
Shell exec on coal, NCOs and peak oil
A risk Big Oil companies can afford to share
WSJ: A new peak for oil, and curbing nuclear exuberance
Friedman calls for carbon tax to spark change
Kunstler: Forget about “recovery”
George Will: Americans are overfed but undernourished
Steven Chu, United States Secretary of Energy, on Charlie Rose
Volunteer army takes on oceans of trash
Boat made of plastic bottles to make ocean voyage
A call to go (nearly) paperless
As the economy slumps, so does trash
Climate crunch heralds the end of the end of history
Saul Griffith calculates what we need to do to keep the world we evolved in
Top 10 Myths about Sustainability
A mid-week review, including:
-Prices and production
-China
The Great Outdoors arose out of ideas developed from the Free Range Network’s Less is a Four Letter Word initiative. We had to solve the problem of communicating the need for change encapsulated in the question, “in a world of excess consumption and luxury, how do you develop a means of teaching people to live simply?” …After much deliberation we hit upon a quite novel approach — we go camping!
Today I report on a study with public health officials from across the nation… The questions are not about peak oil per se; that topic would make for a short interview, indeed. I’m inquiring about the current fiscal and economic crisis… (transcript of talk for the “After Peak Oil” Conference, Johns-Hopkins University, March 12)
Our preferred food source is our own land. We know what goes into, and what comes out of, our little garden plot, and we know how it is handled, processed and stored. We now how to locate and identify wild edible plants – greens, mushrooms, nuts, berries and other fruit.
Suspicious minds: paranoia on the rise
Psychology of denial
Framing The Collapsonomics Practice
Hot, Flat, and Confused
Dealing with collapse proactively is getting all the more urgent, and that includes realizing that the talking heads have been hopelessly invested in a broken system that was painful and wrong from the get-go. Fortunately, one of them must have had a revelation or had the equivalent of some psychedelic trip. Tom Friedman of the New York Times has woken up.
