Climate Code Red: The case for a sustainability emergency
Why peak oil and climate change must be treated together.
Culture & Behavior
Deep thought – Feb 7
Hooked on growth: our misguided quest for prosperity
Rolf Nordstrom discusses depletion scenarios
Feeding people
The big picture: climate chaos (Jamais Cascio)
The organic apocalypse
United States – Feb 6
Morford: The machine gun of capitalism
Bush recommends 40% cut in Amtrak budget
Kunstler: Serial bubbles?
One anthropologist’s view
Back up the rabbit hole
At several points in the last quarter century, due to a brief constellation of short-term factors, petroleum prices dropped to levels lower in constant dollars than ever before in history. Collective decisions made on the assumption that such prices were normal need to be revisited in a hurry as more realistic energy costs reassert themselves.
The near-ice biking experience
It took a near-ice experience and tomorrow’s potential challenge of an early, icy, 11-mile trip to get me to do a simple thing with immediate rewards like change out my bike tires. What, then, does it take to get people to make much bigger changes in their lives to prepare for a world with less abundant energy?
Deep thought – Feb 5
I am human, I’m American, and I’m an addict…
The Tata Nano strikes back – Does Jeavons’ Paradox apply to productivity, too?
Jeffersonian agrarianism and the question of slavery
A material world
On Monbiot’s population comments
Dysfunction – Feb 5
Obesity becoming world crisis
The world’s rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan
Wilderness under threat as visitors stay indoors
The acorn tree syndrome strikes again
Is it not scary when so many people no longer know that potatoes grow underground? Can the nature-illiterate vote intelligently about food issues?
Deep thought – Feb 1
Jamais Cascio: The big picture
Sharon Astyk on collapse: Let her go down
Carolyn Baker reviews William Kotke’s The Final Empire
Demand – Feb 1
Go to sleep early to save power – S.A. minister
New ‘green’ energy from dirty sources (efficiency)
Self-denial was made for me
Chinese on their environmentalism: ‘You buy our cheap goods. Don’t blame us’
The limits to scenario planning
I was involved in one of those periodic discussions that spring up about The Limits To Growth recently and found myself wondering, not for the first time, if other people have read a completely different version of the book to the one I possess.
Is the desire to relocalize merely aesthetic?
If the concept of peak oil proves anything, it’s that this most “utilitarian” civilization in history is paradoxically one of the most blind. How can we, who are so practical and scientific, have failed to notice that we were careening toward the edge of this cliff? And is it possible that our conditioned insensitivity to so-called “aesthetic” concerns is, in fact, a big part of the problem?
