Responses & Resilience – Feb 24
-The Power to Make a Difference, We All Have It
-Oberlin Island
-The Unemployed Now Have Their Own Union, and It’s Catching on Quickly
Culture & Behavior
Deep thought – Feb 24
-Beyond Hope
-Avatar: The Prequel
-Competition is corroding our communities and self-esteem
Deep thought – Feb 23
-Lakoff on Real Reason vs False Reason
-Letters from Amok: The State of the World in Pen and Ink
-The ICPR Primer
It isn’t gridcrash that makes the lights go out
Electricity for private homes is something that was not necessary through most of human history, and is not truly essential today.
United States – Feb 22
-Environmental Advocates Are Cooling on Obama
-Is the Tea Party the Alternative Energy Party?
-Asia-Produced Ozone Making its Way to U.S., Study Finds
-Only 21% Say U.S. Government Has Consent of the Governed
-Unprepared and unplugged: Joe Stack and likely coming attractions
Economics – Feb 22
-Who L’eggo My Eggo?
-The Fat Lady Has Sung
-Germany’s Choice
-Millions of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs
-Chinese Labor Costs, Tea Partiers as True Believers
Into the Widening Gyre: Social Marketing Meets Peak Oil (book review)
While reading Gerald Zaltman and Lindsay Zaltman’s Marketing Metaphoria: What deep metaphors reveal about the minds of consumers, (MM), I recalled a healthcare consultant who told me, “You really should market peak oil, but you’ve got to give folks some good news to win them over.” I laughed and replied, “Are you kidding? I’m not selling whiter teeth”…
Transition – Feb 21
– Diversity
– Solidarity
– A former urbanite puts down green roots
– The easy pleasures of a simplified living space
Deep thought – Feb 21
– Gene Logsdon: Are cities becoming as obsolete as farms?
– Jeremy Rifkin: The third industrial revolution
– Hans Noelder: I am scared
– The price of environmental destruction? There is none
A movement or an organization?
It’s really important to get that we’re not creating a movement. Directing, guiding, or nudging perhaps, but not creating. We need to supply the “thread” onto which to string all the “beads” of positive, resilience-oriented action
The world-saving habit you’ll hate (and the great puzzle of the well-intentioned do-nothings)
It’s easy to envision great and heroic personal sacrifice for a cause. Many of us think of think of ourselves as leaders in and members of a resilience building army. But the moment we have to step up and truly embody the mission, a lifetime of conditioning dulls our charge.
Is there enough food out there for nine billion people ?
Science has a paper on the changes to the current global food system required to support the expanded global population we’ll see in a couple of decades time, noting that radical changes to agriculture will be required to support 9 billion people.
