Notes From a Born-Again Soil Worshiper
In modernity, we value progress and individualism, which are part of a constellation of values that also includes mobility, acquisition, and change. We are suspicious of social ties that may bind…
climate change
Deep thought – headlines
•’Sleepwalking to Extinction’: Capitalism and the Destruction of Life and Earth •The story of how greens became energy enemy number one •Collapsing Consciously
Loss and Damage @Warsaw
Deborah Phelan reports from the COP 19 climate talks in Warsaw.
Energy Crunch: the global picture
Everything is changing on energy, and yet everything remains the same. This is the message from the latest World Energy Outlook by the International Energy Agency.
Breaking Down The Numbers On Ethanol: Inside The Associated Press Biofuels Report
The Associated Press released a scathing new report on environmental degradation driven by American biofuel policy on Tuesday — which promptly got it into an online brawl with Fuels America, a group representing much of the U.S. biofuel industry.
Hello Warsaw, This Is Haiyan Calling
It seems these days that whenever Mother Nature wants to send an urgent message to humankind, it sends it via the Philippines. This year the messenger was Haiyan, known in the Philippines as Yolanda.
Unsustainability Now!
What will happen when an unsustainable system attempts to keep running as if the resources necessary for its continuation still existed?
We Have the Renewable Energy We Need to Power the World—So What’s Stopping Us?
Can renewables really replace fossil fuels? If so, are we willing to do what’s necessary to get there?
Jeremy Leggett: “Make no mistake, this is an energy civil war”
No matter who’s right in the peak oil debates, there has always been easily enough oil and gas, combined with coal, to wreck the climate and bring down civilisation.
“If not us, then who? If not now, then when?”
This tear-choked call to action from Naderev Saño, lead negotiator for the Philippines at the Climate Conference in Doha 2012, is made absolutely heartbreaking by the events of the weekend.
Climate, resilience and geopolitics – headlines
•Obama Administration Takes Action on Climate ‘Resilience’ •Global security in the age of climate responsibility •Climate Change Seen Posing Risk to Food Supplies •CO2 levels hit record high •How the world is failing at its climate goals, in one giant chart •The Climate Mapping Tool You’ve Been Waiting For •2012’s carbon emissions in five graphs
Change The Earth
Our planet is in a state of emergency.
