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Down the Rabbit Hole

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Rod Dreher has a fascinating observation…He talks about watching an interview on CNBC with Taleb and Roubini: Roubini and Taleb were both trying to make their case for why what’s wrong with the economy is radical, is fundamental, goes to the very base of all our economic assumptions.…The more I think about his point, the more I think that it epitomizes something fundamental about the intellectual shift we have to make – and about how hard it is to make it.

The peak oil crisis: the economic rebound

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The overriding issue is just how long the economic downturn will last. Historical precedent and conventional wisdom from Wall Street seems to be saying that by the middle of 2009 we will hit bottom and things will start to improve. Some, however, are not so sure and are making cases for a downturn of many months, quarters, years, or in extreme cases decades. Sorting this out is obviously impossible for we seem to be entering an era unique in history.

Peak textiles – Feb 12

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Cardiff’s online shoppers are worst offenders for binning unworn clothes
Colourful adventures through textiles – Part I
Is the time right for Slow Fashion?

Toward Ecosophy

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Underlying the common casual assumption that some way out of peak oil will be found are the presuppositions and value judgments some social critics have called “scientism,” centered on faith in the omnipotence of human reason over nature. What options do we have for moving toward a less self-defeating worldview as the limits to humanity’s supposed “conquest of nature” come within sight?