Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Carolyn Baker reviews Sharon Astyk’s Depletion And Abundance
“When I realized that everything was going to change, I was at first afraid. Because I thought, if my government or public policy or other choices weren’t going to fix everything, what could I possibly do? What hope was there, if I had to take care of myself, if my community had to take care of itself?”
A ‘Green New Deal’ can save the world’s economy, says UN
Starhawk on meltdown strategies: financial disaster and climate change
Wackernagel: Crisis leads to ecological crossroads
Growth economics on a finite planet (Herman Daly at NY Times)
From energy efficiency to war: think tank sees 2030 climate future
Nature loss ‘dwarfs bank crisis’
Climate author goes political
Global fund ‘could pay owners to keep rainforests safe’
Monbiot: Stock collapse is petty compared to the nature crunch
Tom Engelhardt: My depression – or ours?
Sharon Astyk thinking ahead: predicting the depression
Ruppert: What really happened today
Is global warming really the ‘best thing that has happened to the culinary world in a long time’ as chef Laura Stec suggests? The discovery that our food choices can reduce global warming as effectively as buying a new fuel-efficient vehicle inspires new strategies towards creating a more sustainable world. What we eat does have an impact on our planet and you can eat better tasting, higher-vibe food and find solutions for the global warming diet through Cool Cuisine: Taking the Bite Out of Global Warming. (Excerpts)
This message of an ever more negative economic outlook was not even acceptable for discussion among my entrepreneurial peers who were kept inspired by an endless parade of motivational speakers. As I related the positive-to-the-point-of-delusion attitude of my business colleagues, to my peak oil companions, Kurt, who was himself from a business family, assured me that entrepreneurs must be overly positive because going into business for oneself is one of the craziest things you can do.
Is oil priced at $80 a barrel this morning? That’s nice. Except if the company that employs you is about to fold up and you face a holiday season of driving frantically around Atlanta in search of another job, which the odds are against you find finding. Or if you’re living on a retirement fund that’s just lost 37 percent of its value and it’s time to fill the heating oil tank.
Heinberg: Sustainability and resource depletion: survival challenge for the 21st century
Transforming the global economy: solutions for a sustainable world (Schumacher lecture)
Thomas Friedman: Hope for a hot, flat and crowded world
The explosive cocktail of too much debt and too little energy has now had the effect of toppling the already top-heavy world markets. When the world economy was humming along, nary a thought was given to its enormous complexity. It is only now when it is disrupted that we are forced to notice where that complexity is breaking down.
Bright Neighbor
The Gathering Inn: bed, breakfast and beyond (part 2)
Pint-Size Eco-Police, Making Parents Proud and Sometimes Crazy
James Taylor Prepares For Peak Oil, Fears Collapse Of Society
Oil has fallen to the lowest price in a year meaning respite for consumers as food prices are coming down
Finding Energy to Beat a Recession
The different reception accorded to warnings about global climate change, on the one hand, and peak oil, on the other, demand explanation. Why has one been turned into a cause célèbre while the other remains marginalized? The answer lies in the underlying beliefs, nonrational but emotionally powerful, that define the two visions of the future.
