Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
If you aren’t feeling some degree of apprehension right now, you aren’t reading the news. Here are some of my thoughts for turning that emotional energy into constructive action. (Author is a clinical psychologist.)
Who will be the leaders who will carry us kicking and screaming towards the sustainable way of life that we should have been leading all along?
Conservationist pins hopes on clotheslines
Urban farmers living off land
What you can do about PO and petrol prices
Cleveland
task force to address future of fuel
The Post-Materialist: Design’s past, future
How to live with just 100 things
One approach to sustainability: Work less
Social crisis in Detroit
One question: How are gas prices affecting you?
Vermont Lt. Gov. Dubie declared an emergency in advance of this winter’s heating season.
Daniel Lerch: PO challenges for local governments
How NYC’s congestion pricing plan crashed
Speech by Philadelphia Mayor Nutter inspires city planners
Kunstler on NPR
Sisters on the planet: women hit hardest by climate change
Oceans warm more quickly than suspected
As beaches creep in, ownership disputes erupt
Can religion help prevent eco-catastrophe? Orthodox Church leader thinks so
Why I love diggers and earthmovers
The geography of green consumerism
Where we ought to be: revisiting Total Loss Farm
Bellingham energy task force seeks volunteers
Putting Meat Back in Its Place
Seattle: Urban folks find farming a tough row to hoe
Brooklyn’s hopeful gardeners
Bill McKibben: Free public transit for all
When is a bike not a bike? When it’s electric
The threat to the car
Sandpoint becomes 2nd Transition Town in U.S.
Portland: Step program for gasoholics (Peak Oil taskforce no longer’apocalyptic’)
To hell with debate, what can the simple folk do?
38 pounds lighter, all from recycling
Community Guide to Environmental Health: comprehensive book, downloadable from Hesperian
Report on the recent peak oil conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Pittsburgh: When the oil runs out
Mark Morford:
Stay home, read, have sex
Robert Reich: We need public transportation but can’t get it
Black Commentator: Taking the train to a clean environment, a sustainable economy & jobs
