Deep thought – Dec 12
The pathos of Derrick Jensen
Monbiot: Need a reappraisal of who we are and what progress means
Jamais Cascio: Futurism and its discontents
America’s climate and energy future: What will we look like in 2050?
Culture & Behavior
The Story Of Stuff: free video unmasks consumer culture
A new short film released today online takes viewers on a provocative tour of our consumer-driven culture — from resource extraction to iPod incineration — exposing the real costs of this use-it and lose-it approach to stuff.
Solvitur Ambulando
Proposals for dealing with the onset of peak oil often focus on large-scale, ideologically defined solutions. A more modest piecemeal approach may offer more options in the unpredictable future ahead of us.
Housing & urban design – Dec 4
Stay married – divorce is bad for environment
Five-tree fee for a Java wedding
Senior transportation a growing concern
Civic agriculture = sane housing
Dysfunction – Dec 3
Naomi Klein: Forget the green technology – the hot money is in guns
Eat, drink and be miserable: the true cost of our addiction to shopping
Clogged by plastic bags, Africa begins banning them
Easy way to start a grove of trees (with black walnut jam cake recipe)
I find in my tree sanctuaries what no king or CEO (today’s version of a king) can buy for any amount of money: tranquility.
Housing & urban design – Dec 2
Kunstler interview; the geography of nowhere
People-Centered developments for reduced-energy living
Building equity into green homes
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 2
Japan for Sustainability
Jan Lundberg on climate change and petrocollapse
Dutch horticulture, traffic, key to green future
Interview with author of The World Without Us
This stove cooks — but burns
Coming out of the eco-closet
Being Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual or Transgender in this culture isn’t easy. Yet many of you are finding your way in that. And as you take a stand, are you not finding empowerment and perhaps even excitement at times? I invite you to do the same regarding the state of the world.
Middle class angst: The politics of lemmings
The deepest fear in suburbia, never spoken aloud, is that when this epoch unravels, Suburbia’s citizens quite simply will not know how to survive… The real choice that Suburbia will face is one between fascism or self-sufficiency, which is a choice – as well – between spiritual death or spiritual renewal.
Climate – Dec 1
Rudd Kyoto promise pleases business
Asia faces “unprecedented” water crisis
A fifth of UN carbon credits may be bogus
Stern: Climate change a ‘market failure’
“People want to protect themselves a little bit” (study of climate denial)
Lifeboat time
Recent news stories point to the real possibility that a wave of crises of the kind predicted by the theory of catabolic collapse may be imminent. Can we afford to wait until the window of opportunity for constructive action closes?
