Peak textiles – Nov 2
-I’m Too Sexy for This Footprint: Eco-Designers Take on Fashion’s Carbon Footprint
-French make cars from flax
-Farmers Arrested Planting Hemp On DEA Headquarters Lawn (Video)
Culture & Behavior
The EU’s climate change offer to the USA and a railway around the coast of Africa
Until 1 January 2010 Sweden holds the presidency of the EU. This means that Sweden’s Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt is head of the EU-delegation that today travels to the USA for a summit on climate between the EU and the USA on Wednesday. Reinfeldt will meet president Obama today and can then present the offer that the EU nations agreed on last week.
Deep thought – Nov 2
-Think Again: God
-A City Unbottled: Mary Beard’s Pompeii
-Why we don’t do much about climate change
Climate & environment – Oct 30
-Rainforest treaty ‘fatally flawed’
-Fewer Americans View Global Warming as a Problem
-Government launches map to highlight global warming threat
-Arctic Sediments Show That 20th Century Warming Is Unlike Natural Variation
-Betting the Farm
-UN chief will pressure senators on climate bill
Urban ag roundup – Oct 30
-Farmers Markets Enjoy Popularity, Face Challenges
-Hoop Dreams
-Farmers’ markets for seed savers
-Food Advocates Envision Rooftop Gardens and Vertical Farms
-Will Allen and the Urban Farming Revolution
How we gonna feed the world? – Oct 30
-UK urged to lead on future food
-World must use GM crops, says UK science academy
-Feed the world
-Can Biotech Food Cure World Hunger?
-Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
It’s Too Late, Baby, Times Up!: A Book Review
I live in Boulder, Colorado where the buzz among eco-activists who attended a recent lecture by Vandana Shiva is her chilling statement that if the human species continues on its present destructive trajectory, it has no more than 100 years of life on this planet. At about the same time this bomb was dropped on Shiva’s audience, Keith Farnish’s amazing book Time’s Up: An Uncivilized Solution To A Global Crisis arrived in my mailbox for review…
The Victory of the Commons
Nobel Prize-winning economist Elinor Ostrom proved that people can—and do—work together to manage commonly-held resources without degrading them.
Web & media – Oct 29
-Neri Oxman: Design is Truly Alive
-The launch of the economical environmentalist
-Where Home Is, The Heart Isn’t
-PopTech’s America Reimagined: Bringing Brains Together at the Coolest Conference You’ve Never Heard Of
Big Crash Coming?
In More Like A Depression Every Day, I described strong deflationary pressures in the American economy despite the Shock & Awe fiscal & monetary stimulus being applied. The flow of free money is supposed to counter deflation by boosting both asset values and government spending. Economist Nouriel Roubini, otherwise known as “Dr. Doom”, notes that this “wall of liquidity” is inflating asset values, not just in the United States, but all over the world.
Afghanistan again – Oct 28
-Push for Afghanistan troop increase continues on deadly day
-Success elusive for U.S. policy in Afghanistan
-Former Marine captain resigns in protest of Afghanistan war
-The great gamble
-A Crash Course in Democracy
Path to a peace economy
I start with a basic truth. A persistent pattern of violence against people, community, and nature is inherent in the institutional structure of our existing economy. You don’t treat a cancer with Band-Aids, and we can’t resolve our current economic crisis with marginal regulatory adjustments. It is time to rethink and restructure.
