Planetary thinking – Aug 31
The nexus of water, energy and climate
Dirt isn’t so cheap after all
Humans now use 25% of the Earth’s productivity
Culture & Behavior
Technology addicts
We become dependent upon technology and upon the system that provides it and the energy to run it. We forget how to do things for ourselves. …
Hello. My name is Dale, and I am a technology addict.
Eco-friendly – Aug 29
‘Diaper-free babies’ fad swells
Cork vs. screw cap
Christmas trees are eco-friendly
Linux, Windows duke it out over energy efficiency
Deep thought – Aug 29
David Korten: Living wealth- better than money
Rise and fall of sea levels and civilisations
Albert Bartlett on population, energy and the exponential function
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 29
Jumbo jar is ready for rain (Thai water saving)
Radical Simplicity and the Fourth Step (online book)
What must we do?
Peak oil – Aug 29
Peak oil theater: Flamingo/Winnebago
News from TOD Canada
ODAC News
The twelfth hour
For decades our collective conversation about the future has focused on claims that the eleventh hour has arrived and radical change is the only alternative to imminent catastrophe. Inevitably the peak oil situation has been portrayed in these terms.
The end of civilization and the extinction of humanity
Peak oil spells the end of civilization. Runaway greenhouse spells the end of humanity. This is my latest attempt at standup tragedy, to steal a line from Derrick Jensen.
(Talk by a conservation biologist to an August 17 conference of students of public health.)
Right, schmight, left, schmeft
“Transitioning gracefully from the Age of Excess to the Era of Modesty” – the subtitle of Richard Heinberg’s forthcoming book – invokes not just an era of more modest usage, but also social, sexual and cultural modesty, subjects that, if they are discussed at all, tend to be thought of as discussions to be had on the “right” rather than throughout the political spectrum.
Deep thought – Aug 28
Sharon Astyk: Diversify, diversify, diversify
The Plan (a new human culture)
The Economist: Problems of aging, shrinking population
Visions – Aug 27
Destination Earth – delightful 1956 oil propaganda cartoon
Archdruid: Uncharted Waters
The end of traffic jams?
Deeper than a mud puddle
Story from the point of view of a farmer in an intentional community in a post-Peak Oil world several years from now.
