Haiti redux – Feb 18
-UN alarmed at lack of global support for Haiti’s immediate agricultural needs
-Haiti Is Open For Business
-Haiti: A Creditor, Not A Debtor
-US Brags Haiti Response Is A ‘Model’ While More Than A Million Remain Homeless In Haiti
Building Community
Economics – Feb 18
-China losing appetite for U.S. debt
-Metal prices rising strongly again
-Collapse of the euro is ‘inevitable’: Bailing out the Greek economy futile, says FRENCH banking chief
-Goldman Goes Rogue – Special European Audit To Follow
-The Making of a Euromess
-Did peak oil cause the present financial crisis?
Agroinnovations #77: CREAR with Mark Feedman
Mark Feedman is the founder of CREAR, the Regional Center for the Study of Rural Alternatives, a small agricultural school located in the northern mountains of the Dominican Republic, near the Haitian border. Feedman has been an tireless advocate of sustainable agriculture for 40 years, and in this interview he recounts his struggle to create an educational center in the remote forests of Hispaniola. Topics include rural education, the future of Haiti, and the subject of hope.
What is collapse, anyway?
With any reasonably successful blog, you have a conversation going on, often between an author and commenters who have a long history and background, and people coming into the conversation for the first time…Balancing the degree to which you write for the regulars and to those new to you is always an interesting exercise.
It isn’t easy being green (cities) – Feb 17
-Even Boulder Finds It Isn’t Easy Going Green
-Ecocities Emerging Newsletter
-The Cleveland Model
-De-Industrializing the City
-Urban Form, Behavior Energy Modeling in China: Sim City for Real?
Deep thought – Feb 17
-Beyond “Green Capitalism”
-The zero point of systemic collapse
-Tending the Garden of Technology
-Power
The Transition Towns Movement: Its Huge Significance and a Friendly Criticism
The world is immensely complicated, and the forces of sweeping change may overall boost transition towns for their positive contribution. Or as Ted Trainer lays out below, a course correction is needed now.
Climate & environment – Feb 16
-Can Climate Shift the Biology of Ecosystems?
-Arctic sea ice vanishing faster than ‘our most pessimistic models’: researcher
-Snowmaggedon Backs All Climate Change Views
-Time to think small on climate change
-U.N. climate panel needs overhaul, top scientists argue in ‘Nature’
Peaking resources and possible responses – Feb 16
The Story of P(ee)
-Forest Carbon Scheme Gains Support, Faces Hurdles
-Warming Water Spurs U.S. to Consider ESA Protection for 82 Coral Species
-Rewilding’ the World: A Bright Spot for Biodiversity
Responses & resilience – Feb 16
-War at Home: The Local Eco-Warriors Making a Big Noise
-Brock Dolman on water: “Basins of relations: reverential rehydration revolution”
-Pathways to Re-Localisation with Joel Salatin
-Die Transition Towns-Bewegung – Städte und Menschen im Wandel
-Environmentalists launch low-carbon ‘churches in transition’
-Could chicken manure help curb climate change?
Building Cultures of Peace
We stand at a critical point in human cultural evolution. Going back to the old normal where peace is just an interval between wars is not an option; what we need is a fundamental cultural transformation.
From Copenhagen to Port-au-Prince
This is the story of two very different cities. One is a city whose past is steeped in historic achievement, and recent failure. The other is a city whose horrific past has gotten desperately worse, but whose future… well, who knows? Though world’s apart, these places embody a common metaphor for an elusive global possibility.
