Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Cultural patterns, like political institutions, are likely to go through drastic changes as a society based on cheap abundant energy has to stand its assumptions on its head to deal with the twilight of fossil fuels. Can societies that have turned their cultural resources into a sideline of the marketing industry put them to more sustainable uses?
I got an email from a reader named Chris who asked me whether all of my emphasis on producing food and meeting our needs at home wasn’t antifeminist and pushing women back into the kitchen and out of the workforce, and thus, out of the public sphere.
BREAKING: New York City’s traffic fee plan wins state OK
What drives quality of life for seniors? Driving
Flying high on pond scum
Conservative MP: Small is inevitable after PO
Robert Putnam and social capital
Designed deterioration
Argentina: Where jobless run factories
Rob Hopkins on the transition movement
Oregon peak oil group
Sheri Liao, Global Village Beijing: “We have to change our lifestyle”
In trash-strewn Italy, a city cleans up
Green energy town proposal in Ireland
The Vatican to become world’s first carbon neutral sovereign state
Astyk: Pick up your hat (is it time yet?)
Choosing to live the good and sustainable life
Taking action in the face of collapse
Green future demands a radical shift in lifestyles for British
Lessons of history help the future
The World War II home front was the most important and broadly participatory green experiment in U.S. history.
For a year five experts ditched theory for practice, running a Welsh farm using 17th Century methods. (What our great- great- great- … grandparents can teach us about saving the world.)
Millions to work for climate protection
Live Earth pledges
Why rock won’t save the planet
Could this be the global-warming generation?
LiveEarth pledge (two versions)
Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology
Steady state economy (Brian Czech intvw)
Web site helps you find energy-use profile
“If our public health and health-delivering institutions are to adapt to major natural environmental changes in the 21st century, they must develop a cooperative, conceptually inventive and integrated response to global warming and peak oil.” (A working issue brief being circulated to health departments and hospital administrators across the country.)
Wikipedia- biggest encyclopaedia ever written
DOD develops a parallel Earth: war games on the grandest scale
Murdoch takes on Manhattan- and the Financial Times
