Investing in Nutrient Dense Foods: Iron
Iron deficiency is the most prevalent mineral deficiency in the United States, and lack of adequate iron intake can have a range of impacts, from chronic fatigue to anemia or even organ failure.
Energy and the Economy – Twelve Basic Principles
There is a standard view of energy and the economy that can briefly be summarized as follows: Economic growth can continue forever; we will learn to use less energy supplies; energy prices will rise; and the world will adapt.
Dark Age America: A Bitter Legacy
Civilizations normally leave a damaged environment behind them when they fall, and ours shows every sign of following that wearily familiar pattern.
Investing in Nutrient Dense Food: Vitamin K
Vitamin K2 deficiency is likely a huge issue throughout modern society by virtue of the low quality foods that pervade our food system, and I hope that research on this important vitamin is made available in the near future to better guide us towards more cost-effective sources of this nutrient.
Using plants to clean contaminated soil
What we need is a device that can suck toxins out of the soil and either turn them into something harmless, or concentrate them in something lightweight and removable.
Ebola and the weak link of public health
It has long been my contention that one of the chief symptoms of the age of constraints we have now entered would be the decline of public health systems globally.
Dark Age America: The Rising Oceans
The vagaries of global climate set in motion by our species’ frankly brainless maltreatment of the only atmosphere we’ve got, the subject of last week’s post here, have another dimension that bears close watching.
Investing in Nutrient Dense Food: Vitamin D
Unfortunately there aren’t many foods that contain meaningful amounts of Vitamin D, and all of them are from either animals or fungi, the latter of which are more closely related to animals than they are to plants.
Investing in Nutrient Dense Foods: Vitamin A
I readily acknowledge that there’s more to the idea of nutrient density than calorie content, so this post will be the first in a series that looks at other nutritional elements of food, beginning with Vitamin A.
Energy & The Financial System Presentation
The financial system as an accelerator and multiplier of the economic and social impacts of energy depletion.
Bubble time: Friends and relatives act as if we’ve returned to business-as-usual
It is a testament to the psychological power of financial bubbles that people who know and trust me and generally accept the analysis I’ve put forth in my writings over the last decade are jumping into the stock market again with a pledge that they are in for the long term–no matter what.
Dark Age America: Climate
One of the most important factors that will shape the history of North America over the next five centuries and is particularly amenable to a systems analysis is climate.
