Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Cleared: Jury decides that threat of global warming justifies breaking the law
Nuclear is the real threat to the fuel-poor, not wind energy
How good an eco-driver are you? Regulator’s tips on careful motoring may save £500 a year
Indonesia: Price increases push US soy beyond reach of poor
Meet the urban sharecroppers
The great honey drought
With the federal bail out of the GSEs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, even a blind man can see that the economy is tanking at full throttle. … I conclude that peak oil will be pretty much off the radar in the next few years among the public, the media and politicians
Big bike race
No need for speed
U.S. highway fund crushed by cutback in driving
PBS Public Bike System Plug ‘n’ Play Swipe ‘n’ Ride
CSIRO paper: A comparison of the Limits to Growth with Thirty Years of Reality
Is California on the brink of environmental collapse?
The machine in our heads
Love, Schmove – Just tell me how to build community with the guy who mows his lawn in his speedo!
Oil prices, technology, and the cost of ignorance
Meet the greenshifters
It never hurts to be prepared for Armageddon: Be to go-to gal
Is it better to lease, hire or borrow than to buy?
If we could come to accept that our current industrial age is just a phase, ephemeral like all ages, neither a triumph which must be defended in its entirety at all costs, nor a mistake which must be allowed to collapse, nor a system that can be redeemed with just a few adjustments, we could learn to let go of it as it recedes without rejecting aspects of it that might prove to be instructive or useful. We could then move on to our next task, creating a new phase of human existence on planet Earth within limits we can no longer ignore.
With homeowner in doghouse, bobcats move in
Solar panels are hot for the stealing
Greek “Robin Hoods” steal at the store, give to the poor?
Blackouts force power-free surgery
The Take-Us (self-published book)
The new black (oil influences fashion)
Cheap clothes, clean conscience
Power cuts hits textile industry
Adaptation: The Ultimate Challenge
Technological fundamentalism in media And culture
The long downsizing of civilization — buy a boat
Hot Japan’s cool green trends
Plan C 5.0: Community Solutions to Climate Change and Peak Oil
Introducing Transition Chat!Planting seeds: Website seeks to liberate diets – and wallets – from supermarket
This is a guest post by writer Mynda Ubis-Ness, a lead reporter from the Canadian Environmental Magazine “Salacious Green.” Mynda writes “I asked Astyk for an interview about her newly released (on store shelves today) book, but it became very clear shortly after I arrived at her farm that there was a much bigger story here – she’s not really what dozens of readers have come to believe she is. The public has a right to know how she’s misleading us!”
