Review: The Alien Effect by Cary Neeper
There’s a lot in Cary Neeper’s Archives of Varok novels. They are by turns wondrous, wise, witty, tense and gripping—all in service of a heartfelt environmental polemic.
Frank Kaminski
Continuing With The Insanity
A few stories from a single issue of the Financial Times show how little things have changed, and how few lessons have been learned, since the 2008 financial crisis.
Nuclear war: A forgotten threat to human sustainability
The possibility of a new Cold War between Russia and the United States and its NATO allies brings with it the spectre of nuclear war.
Facts, Values, and Dark Beer
The notion that life has to justify itself to me seems, if I may be frank, faintly silly, and so does the comparable claim that I have to justify my existence to it, or to anyone else.
Eight Pitfalls in Evaluating Green Energy Solutions
Does the recent climate accord between US and China mean that many countries will now forge ahead with renewables and other green solutions? I think that there are more pitfalls than many realize.
Dust Storms Again in the High Plains
A cold Arctic air mass swept southward across the high plains last Tuesday, its 50 mph winds dropping temperatures by 50 degrees overnight. Blowing over drought-parched farm soil, the wind created a huge dust storm in eastern Colorado, visible in striking photographs from space.
Frugal Value: Designing Business for a Crowded Planet
In this article, I critically examine the notion of business growth in our time, reflecting on the purpose, nature and workings of individual firms in the age of the Anthropocene.
Dark Age America: The Hoard of the Nibelungs
Of all the differences that separate the feudal economy sketched out in last week’s post from the market economy most of us inhabit today, the one that tends to throw people for a loop most effectively is the near-total absence of money in everyday medieval life.
Climate Crisis and the Pursuit of Happiness: Reflections on Community Solutions Conference
This last phrase has been sticking out in my mind all day–the pursuit of happiness, especially.
Genetically Modified Escalation
How much money, effort and time must be wasted in the service of feeding today’s GMO escalation trap? By the time one side wins, society will have lost.
Oil Price Slide – No Good Way Out
The world is in a dangerous place now. A large share of oil sellers need the revenue from oil sales.
Dark Age America: The End of the Market Economy
One of the factors that makes it difficult to think through the economic consequences of the end of the industrial age is that we’ve all grown up in a world where every form of economic activity has been channeled through certain familiar forms for so long that very few people remember that things could be any other way.
