Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The steps Bill [McKibben proposes] — local food and local energy — are generally good ones, but they alone are not going to get us anywhere close to one planet living. For that, we need truly radical change, delivered through widespread innovation and systemic redesign, and going far beyond the sorts of impacts we can create though individual consumer actions.
An Oxford scholar has published a definitive work on why we’re not happier, even with rising levels of wealth.
Bill McKibben has been championing the themes of global warming, peak oil and sustainability for years. In his recently released book, Deep Economy, he focuses on relocalization and a rethinking of our conception of happiness.
The Auto Empire Rolls On
Probe launched after thousands trapped on Sydney trains
EU Open skies pact to worsen climate change
Parking plan is ‘discriminatory’
Faith schools fight to keep free transport
High Speed Passenger Rail Act, Draft
Highway speed limit plan irks Germans
Return of the Electric Car
Transport issues prompt voters rethink
Mention the word “hoarder” in a meeting of organizers and a collective shiver will run down our spines. A hoarding client’s clutter brings us head to head with a vision that is out of balance. Whether a result of unconscious compulsions, chronic shopping, expectations that don’t add up or an inability to reconcile cause with effect, it all comes to bear on the limits of space
A short history of what man covets
most – STUFF
The end of garbage
Britons throw out a third of all food
Kovattana: A hoarders guide to the end of the world
Got a plan? TREC do, it involves concentrated solar power and high voltage DC transmission, and they want your help to get it into public view.
Gore Urged to Put Brake on Biofuel Production
Demand for corn driving up meat prices
Livestock Industry Testifies Before Congress In Food Vs. Fuel Debate
Success derails biofuels bandwagon
Perhaps we should be mourning after the world’s largest oilfield, rather than dead celebrity Anna Nicole Smith, for Peak Oil means the death of the American dream, not just one queen of kitsch.
Getting over the cash and carry mentality
Bruce Sterling: My dot-green future is here
Activist hopes Missoula can break free from petroleum’s yoke
My Purim-spiel
Oil prices set new records and the industry maintained a historically high level of activity in 2006. Energy agencies issued consensus forecasts that production would rise. Yet crude oil production was down and total liquids production was flat. The economists should be shaking in their boots.
