Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Ancient peoples often imagined that any calamity natural or otherwise was the work of displeased gods. Today, we are more enlightened. When we suffer misfortunes such as rising energy prices, some of us immediately imagine small secretive groups in high places engaged in elaborate conspiracies.
Sharon Astyk: Why I believe in individual action
Who said Marx wasn’t green?
Is it time for Americans to start cutting our baby emissions?
Amy Goodman at the “Global Triple Crisis” teach-in (Korten & Shiva)
10 things we can do: Rebuilding civil society
The power of voluntary actions
Can this really save the planet?
Don’t just be the change, mass-produce it
As the crisis deepens, those focused on spreading the word (whether in a “confrontational” manner or not) and those focused on inclusiveness and the implementation of responses will find that they need each other as much as the world needs to hear and see what both groups have to offer.
Over 60 prominent policy leaders, activists, scientists and scholars will gather to discuss the Global Triple Crisis in Washington DC:
– Climate Change
– Peak Oil (The End of Cheap Energy)
-Global Resource Depletion (including Species Extinction)
Dismissing the importance of small personal behavior choices in favor of a sole focus on policy changes is a big mistake. Small behaviors are important not only for the direct environmental impact they have, but because they often lead to more and more pro-environmental behaviors over time.
Zac Goldsmith: ‘Peak oil informs everything’
Leftist discussion of Peak Everything
Atlantic: The world’s most essential oil field may be in decline
Matt Simmons series
TOD community update
ODAC News
The question of what to do about the imminence of peak oil has become tangled up with questions about who to blame for it. A hard look at this thinking may be in order.
Climate activists target Asia-Pacific summit in Australia
Controversial Greenpeace ad on climate change
2 out of 3 Canadians polled say warming is ‘very serious’
Nobel Prize winning economist Schelling on a post-Kyoto agreement
Concerning coal – the cheapest alternative
Plans for new coal plants stalled by growing opposition
Offsets aren’t enough
Mount Stripmine?
Peak Oil and climate change? Blame Cornwall
Whenever ecologists gather, we might expect them to be screaming at the top of their lungs (or at least doing what passes for this in academic circles) about the imminent peril in which we humans find ourselves. But at a recent annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), those figurative screams could only be rated as somewhere between muffled and nonexistent.
Greek forest fires could be CO2 threat
Climate change brings ticks ever closer
Al Gore, James Hansen, and civil disobedience
NASA scientists challenge security rules- claim agency may be trying to silence them about global warming
