Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Richard Douthwaite on complementary money systems
Julian Darley on economics, the money system and capitalism
No efficiency without controls
McKinsey report: Invest in existing technologies to lower energy demand growth
HopeDance special on “LOCAL”
Heinberg: Talking ourselves to extinction
New transcripts and translations on GPM
Why working less is better for the globe
Having an environmentally friendly day in bed
Amory Lovins: Lectures on advanced energy efficiency
Emissions-free travel way of life for globe-trotting B.C. couple
Paradise lost: the downside of travel
Freight train usage keeps rolling higher
Bicycles beat subway as fastest mode of travel in NYC
Portland ponders: Paper or plastic?
The teeming plasticized masses’ awakening
Julian Darley on relocalization and energy use
Relocalizing Eugene
Paul Hawken: Something Earth-changing is afoot among civil society
Nuncio says by living simply Catholics can help protect the earth
The ecology of work
Transition Towns In Italian
Waste Equals Food (video)
8am: Shower. Save the water. Save the planet
Heinberg, Pollan, Kingsolver on PO and sustainable food
Mental health benefits of natural, low-cost ecotherapy
52 Weeks of Energy Cuts: #3 Make it yourself
LEDs emerge to fight fluorescents
IBM starts green business arm
Mass. union: Overloaded grid ready to ‘pop’
Texas House favors gas tax break
40 percent of babies watch TV, study finds
Review of Consumed by Benjamin Barber
Greenhouse crackdown scuppers Kipper gas field (Australia)
U.S.’s thirst for liquid natural gas growing
The cost Of coal on the environment
American society, as an autopoietic system, by its very energy-intense design, is inclined toward blindness of certain stimuli in its environment… It is well known that any large-scale organization as a system adjusts slowly to alterations in its environment. This suggests that there may be more promise in correcting our vision at the micro level.
Moving New York City toward sustainable energy independence
Rob Hopkins (Transition Totnes) interview
Bill Rees (“eco-footprint”) on pushing the planet to its limit
