Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
A new approach to gardening is highlighted in the book The Earth Knows My Name: “Just as you should never have a monocropped field, so you should never have a monocropped people. If we are going to think about diversity as the key to survival and saving the environment, I really think you can’t have biological diversity succeed without cultural diversity.”
There is nothing that says, “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here,” quite like a trip to China with Edward Burtynsky, an internationally known Canadian photographer.
Stress of blogging can be a hazard to your health
How to reduce, prevent and cope with stress
Sharon Astyk: On finding my work
Comparative planetology: interview with Kim Stanley Robinson
Does the future need a legal guardian?
Jared Diamond: What’s your consumption factor?
Dr. Albert Bartlett in depth (transcript)
Nate Hagens: evolution, addiction and economic demand
Joshua Farley and ecological economics
Carbon quota an eerie echo of Technocracy
John Michael Greer (Archdruid Report) on Spengler, Toynbee and the decline of the American empire
Classicist: I stopped cheering for the Romans
A question of blame when societies fall
Noble or savage?
If medicine would regard peak oil as likely to occur within 12 years, in line with most predictions, then it will choose strategies which automatically address climate change as well. If the health care industry fails to lead, it will suffer the draconian consequences of having ignored the driving forces of the opening decades of the 21st century.
I sense that we are approaching a tipping point, so I decided to re-embed myself within institutions to have more contact with people and resources to help make a transition to whatever we can create to thrive during the changing times.
Quaker writer John Yungblut used the ways of thinking he found to deal with his Parkinson’s disease to provide a new way “into” times of personal and collective hardship.
New Scientist: ‘Year of the environment’
Top 10 global warming stories
Independent: ‘The sheer scale hasn’t sunk in’
Gwynne Dyer: It was all about oil, global warming
NASA scientist on PO and climate change
Life after peak oil: not so bad
Saudi Aramco: don’t worry about PO
Busting the Hubbert myths
DVDs of the 2007 Houston ASPO conference
Review of Crude Awakening by leftist paper
Welcome to “peak climate,” “peak food,” “peak water,” “peak electricity,” or as some people are putting it, “peak everything.”
