Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff For those too young to remember, this is what a recession looks like
‘Bernanke rides to the rescue’ – more cowboy deception
Reich: The Politics of an economic nightmare
Soros: The worst market crisis in 60 years
Steady state economy
Drought could force nuke-plant shutdowns
Future of Yucca, expansion of nuclear
Vinod Khosla: Biomass I, II and III
Der Spiegel: Critique mounts against biofuels
Eco-Farm: Eric Schlosser on Florida pickers and fair wages
Gates hopes his money can help poorest farmers
Canada: Faraway food production
Mendocino renegade
My other car is a bright green city
Daniel Lerch on post carbon cities
Mayors climate protection summit
Shell chief fears oil shortage in seven years
The Gospel According to Matthew [Simmons]
Hagens, Savinar interview
PO talk in Minnesota
PO activist in Saturdays’s WSJ
More bad news for ethanol – UC researchers say it could be twice as bad as gasoline in terms of emissions
Biofuel production may worsen water, food problems in Asia : study
Lester Brown: Ethanol production will drive food prices higher
Academia moving fast enough on climate change?
Europe plans revamp of carbon trading
Businesses want a say in global-warming bill
Photojournalist Braasch gives first-hand account of warming’s impact
From toilet to tap
Whole Foods sacks plastic bags
Ontario to end ban on clotheslines
Candid piece on PO from Bloomberg: “Prius designer says industry must lose oil addiction”
Energy: Centre of power is on the move
The universal mining nachine
Oil pimping: Kunstler interview
I look at the empty countryside around our farm and can’t help but wish it were as thick with people as when my grandparents made a living here.
Since the end of World War II, the private gasoline-powered automobile has become the center of life in America. There are few other cultures in the world today that are not trying to emulate America as soon as their economic circumstances permit.
