Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Gene Logsdon When our bed of irises bloom for one brief but glorious week in late May, I think, strangely enough, of a letter a friend of mine received from a doctor in Minnesota. The doctor observed that in his medical practice, rural people face the prospect of dying with more equanimity than urbanites.
Perhaps you have noticed a common theme in my recent columns. Each policy proposed to solve our economic, oil or climate problems I have examined has a fatal flaw, and often more than one. New initiatives always seem dead on arrival.
Now I realize that some of you will look at any advice of mine on this subject with skepticism – after all, you may even blame me (quite correctly, perhaps), for your loved one’s going bonkers and talking about sheep and nut trees all the time. And yet, I do feel your pain. Or rather, my husband does, and he’s happy to tell me all about what it is like to look over at the person you love and wonder why on earth she’s babbling about soil.
Apathy threatens humanity, ex-Clinton aide says
Ten reasons why population control can’t stop climate change
‘Generation Green’ Environmentally Oblivious
Overcoming the stigma of ‘toilet-to-tap’ water
The World Water Crisis: High Cost, Low Priority
Is the Water Supply for 8 Million People in New York City at Risk?
Setting the pace to create the greenest building ever
Car-Driven Society Poses Health Risk for Americans
Bryn Davidson on Peak Oil, Climate Change and Transportation at the 2009 Art Center Sustainable Mobility Summit
The Bouwes house is part of a wave of forward-thinking building that is redefining Cully, a sleepy and sometimes forgotten northeast Portland neighborhood, as a miniature hotbed of sustainable construction…At the same time, and not coincidentally, Cully is in the grip of a social lifestyle revolution of middle-class, multigenerational families creating a new breed of society. At the moment, that revolution is playing out in the Bouweses’ dining room.
Beyond Westminster’s bankrupted practices, a new idealism is emerging (Transition movement)
Will Hammersmith eco-village inspire new generation of Diggers?
Critique of European liberal policy on energy
When caring is kept in the family
How retiring has made me more resourceful
Complementary Currencies Are Ushering In a Vibrant Local Economy
What’s Wrong with a 30-Hour Work Week?
Copenhagen: Slipping past a tipping point
Free carbon emissions permits could create added costs
Canada: petro-state or rich nation?
Oil economy driving growth of controversial tar sands
Communicating Transition
Empathy Marketing 101
Miller-McCune Receives Utne Independent Press Award
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