Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The financial crisis sweeping the world has led many to reconsider the neoliberal premises of the U.S. government. Jae-Jung Suh sits down with sociologist and world systems theorist Immanuel Wallerstein to consider the paradigm shift in global thinking on economic policy and the future of capitalism.
Activist and professor Del Gandio entreats his fellow radicals to recognize the importance of effective communication, and then proceeds to outline the basics of writing, public speaking, body rhetoric and other rhetorical mainstays.
As a practical matter, failing at capitalism does not automatically make you socialist, no more than failing at marriage automatically make you gay.
Interview with the geologist-authors of The American West at Risk, a recently-published tome that details how ongoing environmental issues are destroying the general livability of Earth for all species, including humans. This book shouldn’t just be on every wannabe Greenpeace activist’s nightstand. Each of the 13 chapters explore one subject in depth — forestry, mining, military operations, road building, to name a few — and balances science with politics and reality to sharpen the argument for preservation of natural resources.
For several months I have been meaning to write a review of Rob Hopkins’ The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience, but other things got in the way-like a planetary economic meltdown and out of control climate change that exceeds some of the most dire predictions by climate scientists. I should have spoken out earlier in support of this movement, but I didn’t. Now, as we commence this new year, I am.
I will begin this book “review” by telling you that I find nothing-absolutely nothing wrong with The Transition Handbook. If that then makes this article into a commercial for the book instead of a review, so be it.
WSJ: Russian professor predicts end of U.S.
The upside of downward mobility
Obama for America 2.0? (Net Movement)
Drillers eye oil reserves off California coast
Alex Steffen: What if climate change is not an energy problem?
Tim O’Reilly: Thinking about Wendell Berry
Greed is not good, says God
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)
A food agenda for Obama
It was a gas (Haber-Bosch process for fertilizers)
Fresh eggs, finances and fun: families flock to keep hens
‘Green’ jobs compete for stimulus aid
Krugman: Barack be good
A green stimulus for the people
The coming capitalist consensus: “Global Social Democracy”
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
The Vermont Creed
Ban bottled water
Sentient Times and social change
Going green for Hanukkah
Ashland group pushes for ‘transition town’ status
