Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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.
Commodifying kids: the forgotten crisis
Research links poor kids’ stress, brain impairment
Pollution link with birth weight
Esther Duflo, a young French development economist is reinvigorating her profession by pioneering new anti-poverty strategies focused on experiment and evaluation.
Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world
Homer-Dixon: Make room for doom and gloom
Save the Holocene!
Symbiont or Parasite?
Electric Commercial Vehicles
Bad economy holds highway deaths to 1960s levels
Shippers Taking It Slow in Bad Times
Health risks of shipping pollution have been ‘underestimated’
China auto sales ‘surpassed US in Jan’
Ecological economics interview: Jon Erickson
Socialism has failed. Now capitalism is bankrupt. So what comes next?
Just 53% Say Capitalism Better Than Socialism
One question commonly raised among people who are beginning to face the crisis of industrial civilization is what they can do about it. With the help of two German Romantic poets, the Archdruid suggests some options.
My week of living (very, very) cheaply
Green Patriot Posters
Energy Co-op Brings Power to the People
What Can Transition Initiatives Learn from Smallholders?
The world is entering a great paradigm shift and our place in it will be markedly different 10 or 20 years from now. The most alarming thing to remember is that 95 percent of us have not discovered that major changes are underway and are waiting for economic recovery and new jobs to open up.
A bird in the yard is worth two in the shop
Urban Foraging – a Rising, Sustainable Fad
Fighting the recession, armed with seeds
New England’s sugar country confronts a bitter future as the climate warms
America is finally showing leadership on climate change. But unfortunately the Obama Administration and the majority of US climate change activists haven’t learned very important lessons from the peak oil debate and look to be leading the world down an illusory path.
Slum cooker protects environment, helps poor
TOD: What are YOU Changing (*if anything), Individually, Locally, Nationally, etc?
Walking restores the world and humanity
Post Carbon Newsletter #48, March 2009
