Notes From a Born-Again Soil Worshiper
In modernity, we value progress and individualism, which are part of a constellation of values that also includes mobility, acquisition, and change. We are suspicious of social ties that may bind…
Erik Lindberg
Will the real International Energy Agency please stand up?
It was as if the International Energy Agency were appearing on the old American television game show To Tell the Truth last week as it offered a third contradictory forecast in the space of a year.
Toward a Green Future, Part Two: The Age of Unreason
The biophobia discussed in last week’s post makes a useful example of the way that toxic ideas can have the same kind of impact on a society as toxic waste of a more material kind.
Rob Hopkins Introduces New Yorkers to the Transition Movement
As Rob Hopkins explained to a small NYC audience, the Transition movement is increasingly focused on local economic development. Reports on localizing food production, energy conservation and renewable energy capacity set out next steps toward a new green economy.
Unsustainability Now!
What will happen when an unsustainable system attempts to keep running as if the resources necessary for its continuation still existed?
Two Kinds of Power
The words “stop buying” barely scratch the surface of what is actually required of us. It is like saying to an alcoholic, “Just stay away from bars”—when he drives by twenty of them on the way home from work each day. No, to challenge the mad machine world we’ve built—and we must challenge it—we have to dig deep.
Dueling forecasts: Why our energy future is actually a risk management problem
It is well to remember that none of people making forecasts can know the one thing they all desperately want to know: the future.
Economic Growth: A Social Pathology
We have built our society, economy, and belief systems around the benefits and sustainability of economic growth. As further growth endangers our welfare by destroying the earth’s ecology upon which we are dependent, the inability to move away from such growth is truly pathological.
Toward a Green Future, Part One: The Culture of Biophobia
To understand the predicament of industrial civilization, it’s not enough to grasp the outward shape of the crisis of our time…
Why United Nations Climate Change Conferences Will Always Fail
Over two decades have already been wasted on an ineffective approach which is simply not up to the task of driving the fundamental societal changes needed to foestall dangerous climate change.
Growing Fruit in a Nuthouse: Designing Our Orchards for Economic Collapse and Climate-Destabilization
Moving forward, agriculture as we have known it will no longer be a given. We will need to lean heavily on perennial crops such as fruit and nut trees. But how can we increase the chances of getting a living baseline yield from these orchards?
Coal Displacing Nat Gas…Already
Natural gas use is touted by industry as well on its way to replacing coal for power generation, thereby claiming significant cost savings for consumers and benefits for the environment. Unfortunately, such claims have proved short lived and oversold.
