Deep thought – Sept 23
Sharon Astyk: Why I believe in individual action
Who said Marx wasn’t green?
Is it time for Americans to start cutting our baby emissions?
Culture & Behavior
Agriculture in a post-oil economy
Agriculture in the future will be largely a “family affair”: without motorized vehicles, food will have to be produced not far from where it was consumed. But what crops should be grown? How much land would be needed? Where could people be supported by such methods of agriculture?
Unexpected details – Sept 20
When eco-keener meets enviro-slacker (relationships)
How green issues are changing our language
Making garbage visible in all its stinky glory
High gas prices could make you skinnier
Solving Fermi’s Paradox
In the context of current debates about how to maintain the onward march of technological progress, it may be worth revisiting a logical paradox half a century old that casts doubt on whether unlimited technological progress is possible at all.
“The 11th Hour” and Generation Z
Leonardo DiCaprio’s documentary The 11th Hour is a valuable film and everyone who can get to a theater should go and see it. A more personal treatment of the same ground can be found in What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire.
Mass-produce the change – Sept 16
Amy Goodman at the “Global Triple Crisis” teach-in (Korten & Shiva)
10 things we can do: Rebuilding civil society
The power of voluntary actions
Can this really save the planet?
Don’t just be the change, mass-produce it
Faith – Sept 16
Give the earth a Sabbath day
In Greenland, an interfaith rally for climate change
Environmental awareness taking root in conservative Christian churches
Is peak oil a guy thing?
As the crisis deepens, those focused on spreading the word (whether in a “confrontational” manner or not) and those focused on inclusiveness and the implementation of responses will find that they need each other as much as the world needs to hear and see what both groups have to offer.
Population – Sept 14
Russia’s demographic crisis
Russian ‘sex day’ to boost births
Child mortality at record low; further drop seen
Birth control sticker shock
The innovation fallacy
Many people in the peak oil movement cling to the hope that technological innovation can make up for the end of the age of cheap abundant oil. Is this hope as plausible as it seems?
Public teach-in on the triple global crisis Sept 14-16
Over 60 prominent policy leaders, activists, scientists and scholars will gather to discuss the Global Triple Crisis in Washington DC:
– Climate Change
– Peak Oil (The End of Cheap Energy)
-Global Resource Depletion (including Species Extinction)
Unprepared
Not too long ago I was marooned for an entire day at Chicago O’Hare airport. While there, I got the impression that the standard uniform for airline passengers is now a T-shirt, shorts, and flip-flops.
