Peak oil – April 18
Charles Hall in American Scientist: Revisiting the Limits to Growth after peak oil
Matt Simmons video
The “peak oil disruptor” – 4 rules to address the “global energy transition”
North Sea protection: U.K. oil industry seeks aid
Culture & Behavior
Population – April 17
Paying for the excesses of youth
Consumption dwarfs population as main environmental threat
Attenborough warns on population
Overpopulation is a cultural challenge
Food & agriculture – Apr 16
India’s Farming ‘Revolution’ Heading For Collapse
‘Green Revolution’ Trapping India’s Farmers In Debt
Punjab farmer suicides cast shadow on polls
What Your Neighborhood Needs is a Seed Library
Some Advice for Distributists
Among the implications of the implosion of the global economy over the last year is that the great quarrel of the Cold War years between capitalism and socialism was a contest between two dysfunctional and failure-prone systems. As peak oil becomes a fact of life, is it time to start looking for other options?
Consumerism & its critics – Apr 16
Andy Rooney Comments On The Changing Environment And Admits He’s Part Of The Problem
WWF Scotland boss calls for energy wasters to be prosecuted
The Gospel of Consumption and the better future we left behind
Equality Needs to Be Our Organizing Principle
Consumption dwarfs population as main environmental threat
Climate & environment – Apr 15
India Rejects Calls For Emission Cuts
Rich-Poor Divide Still Stalls Climate Accord
What will global warming look like? Scientists point to Australia
World can halt global warming, activist says
Economics – Apr 15
The Coming Siege of Austerity
What’s the secret to an endless vacation?
Austere Times? Perfect
UK & Europe – Apr 13
Archbishop makes credit crunch case for monastic lifestyle in Easter sermon
UK goes into ecological debt on Easter Sunday
Weak pound heaps food price inflation on poorest households
Mayor unveils plan to turn London into ‘electric car capital of Europe’
Housing & urban design – Apr 13
Developer shrugs off recession, plots all-solar Fla. city
Is America’s love affair with the “exburbs” over?
Sustainability a growing movement at colleges, universities across Canada
Formulating a future: the case for anti-modernism (part 1)
It is this that my readership has in common – anti-modernism, a fundamental skepticism that economic growth, more energy, more technology, more shiny things, minor economic social change and other incremental variations on the same basic themes can resolve the deeper problems.
Until all the evidence is in
We need to recognize the phrase “until all the evidence is in” for what it really is: 1) a stalling technique, 2) a reflection of the ignorance of the speaker about the limits of our knowledge or 3) a colloquialism signaling the desire to wait for more information.
Life after the crash: lessons from Kenya
During the past 28 years, I have spent a lot of time in Kenya, where our family has a home. What I experience there is a society that does pretty well with VERY little energy, all things considering. Mind you, not ‘pretty well’ by any standard of the Western world. But survival – and happiness! – are pretty much possible.
