Family values – Nov 29
Ralph Nader: The lost art of family traditions
Removing our kids from the front lines of climate change
Young people reading a lot less
Culture & Behavior
Deep thought – Nov 28
Jamais Cascio’s Green tomorrows: 4 scenarios
The technodevelopmental quartet
Australia, the place to be
Food & agriculture – Nov 28
Studies: Is organic better? It depends
Vienna Vegetable Orchestra
Backyard gardens shelter Europe’s orphan seeds
Australian farmer: Wave of costs arriving to a farm near you
Efficiency – Nov 28
LA Times: Small steps, big energy savings
Dim prospects that ‘energy efficient’ will pay off: CIBC
‘Beer fridges’ present a gassy problem
Smart appliances learning to save power grid
Bringing back the clothesline
EnergyJoule power use monitor
The rich opt out
Off course again
After reading yet another climate denial piece by Bjorn Lomborg, Bill Henderson remembers the time the herring boat he was on went off course in strange waters in the middle of the night. He was furious then at those who allowed the boat to drift into danger, and he’s furious now.
The lovely, life-saving virtue of laziness
The work ethic, before which our culture bows down in adoration, can result in failure perhaps as often as it does success. I came to that conclusion after many years of trying to follow an ecologically-sustainable lifestyle out on the ramparts of society.
Adaptive responses to peak oil
Many of the proposals made so far to deal with the crisis of industrial society have centered on massive programs with huge price tags and few options in case of failure. A look at more flexible approaches may be in order.
Environment- Nov 21
The ‘stuff’ we buy hurts the birds we love
A future for fishing
Earth’s eighth continent – trash
Grim visions – Nov 21
Endings aren’t always happy
The freezing point of industrial society
Black Friday: Why this one is especially dark
Thinking peak – Nov 21
Clarke’s wager and the fate of civilization
A new exhibition considers the lessons of the 1973 oil crisis
Give thanks for oil – and OPEC
Are we green yet?
Couldn’t this Green culture that we are nurturing here in the San Francisco Bay Area become part of our cultural pride and identity, that we then spread to the entire state of California? … Perhaps the Chronicle was not far off in using the headline “heartbreaking” about the Bay oil spill. As one activist pointed out, “It is in the breaking of the heart that we truly discover what it is we feel compelled to do.”
Peak oil – Nov 20
Long-term oil gloom spreads in Houston
Heinberg: preparing for a world without oil
Is the decline of base production accelerating? (“hardcore PO wonkery”)
Decline rates from the megaproject forecasts
Wired on WSJ peak oil article
WSJ takes peak oil seriously – need another fringe topic
Peak oil- How will you ride the slide?
Energy Bulletin on the Reality Report
