Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Deficit rises, and consensus is to let it grow
Economists weigh in on the need for stimulus spending
UK Telegraph: We’re all socialists now, comrade
JPMorgan economist: “If you socialize enough of the financial system, it has to work”
Here comes stimulus – question is how
Bernanke: It’s time for stimulus plan
Completely unplugged, fully green (NY Times on Sharon Astyk)
A tipping point for the climate action movement
Gus Speth interview: Change everything now
How do we deal with an energy crisis?
Weaving the magic number, 350, into Transition
US climate change activists go on trial
Methane hydrates: Energy’s most dangerous game
Climate change and wildfires
What would the bank-bail out money buy for the environment?
A Green New Deal is essential (UN campaign)
The long-term solution to our financial crisis: the other forms of capital
China land reform disappears from radar
Plant-based fuel makers face tough test
Protesters disrupt European biofuels summit
Nature loss ‘dwarfs bank crisis’
Climate author goes political
Global fund ‘could pay owners to keep rainforests safe’
A biologist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers faces a 30-day suspension for kayaking a Los Angeles River. The off-duty challenge to a ruling that the river was not navigable “undermined authority.”
Coal’s comeback
‘Clean coal’ policies absent, GAO finds
Al Gore’s call for civil disobedience to block coal plants
When we live locally and strengthen our communities, we become stronger and better able to adapt to changes in the economy, climate, and energy availability. But we discuss much about how to go about this. So… how do you create change in your community? And how do you form a group of people who can tackle these community needs?
Last week, speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York, Al Gore suggested that young people should engage in civil disobedience to stop the building of new coal power plants “that do not have carbon capture and sequestration.”
I sympathize with Gore’s intent. Coal is the most polluting of the fossil fuels, and if we burn more of it there is little hope of averting catastrophic climate change.
But is carbon capture and storage (CCS) a solution?
“Young people are turned off by the doom and gloom that comes with haggling over the peak date and imagining how difficult and different life will be on the other side of Hubbert’s curve. We believe you when you say it’s going to peak, and those who don’t will when it’s properly explained. We don’t need to be converted, we need to be motivated.”
States, provinces have plan to cut emissions
Gore urges civil disobedience to stop coal plants
Coal, a tough habit to kick
