Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
It’s popular to talk of modern industrial civilization as the most advanced form of human society. Ecological considerations suggest otherwise. In hindsight, will the industrial age be seen as the first clumsy step in an evolutionary process — and where might that process lead?
Is great happiness too much of a good thing?
Against happiness
On average, religious people are much happier than nonreligious ones
Traditional dance as way to fight addictions
Marital spats, taken to heart
Cardiovascular disease and diabetes mortality reductions found after population-wide weight loss during 1989-2000 Cuban economic crisis. [Since Cuba is an example of what peak oil might look like, this study provides hints at the effects of peak oil on public health.]
Nate Hagens at ASPO-6
Vandana Shiva: How to address humanity’s global crises?
Sharon Astyk:
Collateral damage
11th Hour offers solutions to inconvenient truths
We laud heroes who save us from dangers that are immediate and concrete. The most obscure of heroes are those who prevent bad things from happening
Vaclav Havel: Our moral footprint
Sharon Astyk: The water fountain
Global food shock real, says former Australian political leader
The Internet: our last hope for a free press
Hurricane Katrina exacts another toll: enduring depression
Interview with green pediatrician Alan Greene
He’s happier, she’s less so
Falling German birthrate dispels baby miracle myth
CNN:
Overpopulation could be people, planet problem
Quantifying American overextension
UN: 35 years to half-extinction
Mundane science fiction (what if there is no quick and easy escape route?)
One of the basic concepts of ecology — the process of succession — casts an unexpected light on the contemporary crisis of industrial society. Is the industrial world an early stage of succession soon to be supplanted?
Planning for hard times: The Community Solution
The end is nigh. Be positive
Paul Hawken, Bill McKibben on blessed unrest and deep economics
Permaculture for the post carbon transition
Ancient peoples often imagined that any calamity natural or otherwise was the work of displeased gods. Today, we are more enlightened. When we suffer misfortunes such as rising energy prices, some of us immediately imagine small secretive groups in high places engaged in elaborate conspiracies.
