Deep thought – Mar 24
Despoiled Nauru – poster child for “The Party’s Over”
What does climate change do to our heads?
Culture & Behavior
A global threat multiplier
A European Union study on the problems of global climate change contained the sobering assessment that a failure to take radical action now to address global warming would create the likelihood of severe conflict over resources in the decades ahead.
Yes, I care for animals and then I eat them
There is a severe disconnect between our society today and the realities of the food chain. Many people no longer understand that nature is a magnificent banquet table around which sit all forms of life killing and eating each other.
Deep thought – Mar 21
Study: it’s better to give than receive
What we can expect as nature changes
The United States of too much information (thinking about risk)
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 19
Holmgren and permaculture: Backyard answer to energy crisis
Rosemary’s gardens: permaculture and nutritional gardens in Cambodia
Hope dances eternal for media maven
A milestone in the dust
The rise of petroleum prices, in constant dollars, to the highest levels in history this month marks a milestone peak oil theorists have expected for some time. How much signal can we extract from the economic noise that surrounds record oil prices?
Making the most of a global depression
The problem is not just financial mismanagement; there is a deeper instability: the global economy is based on a fundamentally unsustainable exploitation of depleting natural resources.
Deep thought – Mar 17
David Suzuki: Blind date with disaster
The end of The Fire Age (Libertarians and Prometheus)
Can we be zero carbon?
James Cascio interview – the future is now
Do we have too much energy?
Our biggest challenge is not related to getting enough energy. Our biggest challenge is to understand our relationship with energy and to recast it so that we may live more harmoniously with the world around us.
Review: Kunstler’s World Made by Hand
James Kunstler’s vision of life post-peak gives even the most thoughtful doomers new things to think about and new ways to think about them.
Transport – Mar 11
Working on the railroad – personnel shortage
No brakes, no gears: the latest bike craze
Mass transit use hits 50-year high
It’s not just fossil fuels (auto addiction)
Food & drink – Mar 11
Dmitry Orlov: Grandpa Orlov’s vodka recipe
Gene Logsdon: A new look at ol’ demon alcohol
Sharon Astyk: climate-friendly bulk dry foods
