Our Economic Growth System is Reaching Limits in a Strange Way
We don’t just extract fossil fuels. Instead, whether we intend to or not, we get a lot of other things as well: rising debt, rising pollution, and a more complex economy.
Gail Tverberg
The Paris Climate Talks: A Nepali View
Before the COP21 meetings in Paris, I had never attended an international negotiation of any kind. Based on my experiences at the talks, I brought back to Nepal new and sometimes alarming understandings that will guide me in my continued activism for justice and climate change.
Perennial plants and a promise produce a new project
A friendly reminder, the bees, and some soil test results suggest a new garden project for 2016 and beyond.
Why Globalization Reaches Limits
We have been living in a world of rapid globalization, but this is not a condition that we can expect to continue indefinitely.
Review: The Age of Consequences by Courtney White
White strives to show how small, practical steps like these, rather than ever-more-grandiose advancements in industrial-age technology, are the real answer to meeting the calamities before us.
Pope Francis’s Ecological Vision: A Sojourner’s Guide to the Closed World
As remarkable a document as his Encyclical Letter is, even more significant is the reception of the Pope’s ecological manifesto by liberals and progressives around the world.
Newspapers, running on empty
There isn’t much news in most community newspapers these days.
The Decline and Fall of Hillary Clinton
The last couple of weeks in American politics have offered an interesting confirmation of some of the main themes I’ve discussed on this blog.
Freight expectations
When Trucks Stop Running makes a convincing case that the US is scarily dependent on truck transportation, and renewable energies will not power a freight system like the one we rely on today. But does this mean a crisis is just around the corner?
Retrotopia: Back To What Worked
Our narrator visits another school, catches the flu, and has his first encounter with the Lakeland Republic’s health care system…
The Hog Cycle And Oil Prices
The oil industry shares many of the delayed supply responses of the hog (pig) industry, especially as more and more difficult to finance and develop fields have to be developed.
Renewables: The Next Fracking?
As a general rule, in fact, the less direct experience a given person has living with solar and wind power, the more likely that person is to buy into the sort of green cornucopianism that insists that sun, wind, and other renewable resources can provide everyone on the planet with a middle class American lifestyle.
