Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
At one time I decided to give greed a chance, immerse myself in it by devoting all of my waking hours to the study of money. If bankers and I were sharing the same floor of Hell, such an obsession couldn’t be all bad. Maybe Hell just needed a makeover. We could spruce it up, refinance it, remodel…
Kunstler endorses Obama
Environmental Failure: A Case for a New Green Politics
California: Vote NO On Prop 7
Infrastructure: Nation’s physical plant another crisis for next president
Environment will wither whoever win US election
Australia: No opt-out of filtered Internet
The electronic activist
Corporate curriculum (industry-sponsored education materials)
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?
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
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
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?
