Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
– A Case Study in Web Survivability
– Live with the WikiLeakable world or shut down the net
– Massive Release of Raw WikiLeaks Files Threatened if Assange Harmed
– WikiLeaks avoids shutdown as supporters worldwide go on the offensive
– WikiLeaks, the web and the power of the people
– WikiLeaks a blueprint for things to come
– How to Think About Wikileaks
– Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy; “To destroy this invisible government” (best explanation for why he’s doing it)
– Something Wiki’ed This Way Comes
– The man who kicked the hornet’s nest
– US embassy leaks: ‘The data deluge is coming …’ (video)
– Assange: The Truth Will Always Win
“You say things are happening … give me an example. Numerous organizations are doing lots of great work – permaculture, relocalization, etc. This is wonderful, and I’m involved in it. But everything measurable is going the wrong way. So whatever we’re doing is not working. … Unless all this community work is linked with a broader political struggle, we’re not really going to get anywhere.”
– No Impact Experiment: A One Week Carbon Cleanse from No-Impact Man
– Peak oil to drive changes in Dunedin NZ (new report NOW ONLINE)
– Bringing Transition to the airport near you
– Bicycle freight: thinking outside the box truck
– Nassim Taleb looks at what will break, and what won’t
– Tea Party & Cars
– Post Carbon Politics, Intro
– Slow Money: Reconnecting The Economy To Soil, Biodiversity and Food Quality, By Woody Tasch
– UK economic recovery ‘poses threat to environment’
– Next Generation Democracy: What the Open Source Revolution Means for Power, Politics, and Change
– Cyber-Con (US government and the online revolution)
– The Atlantic: The Shameful Attacks on Julian Assange
– Japan Turns Its Back on Kyoto Protocol
– GOP Moves Quickly to Kill House Climate-Change Panel
– Albert Bates: The Cancún Climate Summit – Opening Day Coverage
– Monbiot: Cancún climate change summit: Is God determined to prevent a deal?
– Vía Campesina: Statement on the Climate Summit in Cancun
– Food Security Wanes as World Warms
More than a decade has passed since the first tentative email lists and conversations that launched the peak oil movement. During the years since, a central theme of nearly all factions of that movement has been the goal of inserting peak oil into the collective conversations of our time. The IEA’s awkward admission that the peak has already passed may just mark the arrival of the final stage in the struggle to make that happen. At this point, a new and even more challenging question emerges: now that we’ve won, what next?
Considering climate change, Copenhagen, Cochabamba, the coming calamity, and most controversial: capitalism.
– The Tea Party Targets… Sustainable Development?
– Here’s where we should cut: corn ethanol subsidies
– Walmart local food?
– U.S. Oil Imports Shrink, Yet Worries Loom
In order for humankind to resolve its ecological predicament, capitalism must be historically superseded. People who are aware of the system’s growth compulsion and the environmental destruction that results may well suspect that this statement is true. But carrying this train of thought forward is difficult. Why? Because currently the only well-known model for moving beyond capitalism is that of the socialist tradition. This model, however, arose in the context of class struggles rather than overshoot, and in my view it incorporates several grave errors. I therefore believe that an alternative model for the post-capitalist transition must be developed.
Birk has just the right message to the bike community: Don’t get defensive, hold your ground and push ahead, because in the end even your opponents will come to appreciate the progress you make. … “We’re driving a cultural shift where you trade off motor vehicle space for bike lanes. This is deep, fundamental change. It’s not like just adding a bike lane and Boom, you’re done.”
