Deep Thought – Dec 30
Alex Steffen: What if climate change is not an energy problem?
Tim O’Reilly: Thinking about Wendell Berry
Greed is not good, says God
Activism
Deep thought – Dec 29
Sharon Astyk: The pleasures of the obsolete
The ugly truth behind the markets: Not even the experts have a clue (Homer-Dixon)
Worldwatch: ‘On the verge of an energy revolution’
A road to revolution? (Greek demonstrations)
Food & agriculture – Dec 27
A food agenda for Obama
It was a gas (Haber-Bosch process for fertilizers)
Fresh eggs, finances and fun: families flock to keep hens
A Green New Deal? – Dec 26
‘Green’ jobs compete for stimulus aid
Krugman: Barack be good
A green stimulus for the people
The coming capitalist consensus: “Global Social Democracy”
Potluck – Dec 24
Vancouver mayor promises action on peak oil
The year 2008 in photographs
Sarkozy fears spectre of 1968 haunting Europe
New York Times beefs up environment coverage
Scientists find increased methane levels in Arctic Ocean
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 23
The Vermont Creed
Ban bottled water
Sentient Times and social change
Going green for Hanukkah
Ashland group pushes for ‘transition town’ status
Dysfunction – Dec 22
Katrina’s Hidden Race War
Computing Power About To Peak?
The Needle and the Damage Done
The Versace beach will be refrigerated
Politics & economics – Dec 21
White House philosophy stoked mortgage bonfire (NYT)
The depression of 1929 is the wrong model for the current economic crisis
‘Greek Syndrome’ is catching as youth take to streets
The revolt of a disappointed generation (Greece)
Why dissensus matters
What we think we can know about the future determines how we prepare for it. The speculative bubbles that have left rubble across the economic landscape offer a useful lesson about the difference between knowing what won’t happen, knowing what will happen, and knowing the kind of things that will happen.
United Kingdom & Europe – Dec 15
Greece: How police shooting of a teenage boy rallied the ‘€700 generation’
If we’re going to spend, then let’s invest in Britain’s future
This won’t deliver without a global deal
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 15
Ecotopia: The Novel That Predicted Portland
A Yankee Model for Sustainability
Green gifts are made locally to last
Bright Neighbor uses online barter system to build community
Deep thought – Dec 14
Hubbert: king of the Technocrats
Astyk: Why Failure is normal, and should be part of the plan…but isn’t
A distant mirror: Ireland’s great famine
New Scientist: Top 10 environment articles in 2008
