Deep thought – July 28
Review: The Upside of Down
Alex Steffen: The world with us
Researchers say giving leads to a healthier, happier life
Culture & Behavior
The green consumer – July 28
Monbiot: Ethical shopping is just another way of showing how rich you are
Yes, we can shop our way to a cleaner Earth
Open season on ethical consumers?
Can ‘green chic’ save the planet?
Pressure builds to ban plastic bags
Turning the tide against bottled water
Environment – July 28
Humans appropriate 24% of Earth’s productivity
Quantifying and mapping the human appropriation
Our share of the planetary pie
China cancels environmental report
Peak oil – July 27
Paul Krugman: The sum of some fears
Happiness, economic growth & oil prices (Does PO activism make you happy?)
ABC on peak oil and cars (Australia)
Dysfunction – July 27
Four times as many children prescribed antidepressants versus a decade ago
Obesity spreads in social circles as trends do
Pollution-cholesterol link to heart disease
Electricity shortage threatens Macau gambling
Globalisation backlash in rich nations
Transport – July 26
Bicycle shame
Make your mark and ground the growth of aviation (Heathrow)
Carbon cost of building and operating light rail
On the rails to nowhere (Sydney rail)
Understanding the demographic transition
A shift in world population into a roughly steady state is occurring right now. How it works, what causes it, and what we can do to encourage it.
A failure of mimesis
Are there lessons for the peak oil movement in the cultural schism that has opened up in American society?
Metal theft – Jul 25
Cable theft cost C&WJ $40m last year
Farmers must fight metal theft locally
Sharp practice of melting coins
Dominican Forces Aid Metal Theft
For Thieves, Copper Is Gold in the Gutter
Peak tech?
Go anywhere in America … and one expectation is pretty universal: that technology will only bring us more wonders and miracles, and it will certainly save-the-day where our energy problems are concerned.
The seven habits of highly subversive people
Habit #1. Think
Habit #2: Understand the big picture, the global supply chain of everything that you touch
Habit #3: Fix, make or bake stuff yourself
Habit #4:
Know your porn so that you can understand how you are being told what to desire
Deep thought – July 22
Can ecological economists stop the mainstreamers before it’s too late?
Technophilia, virtual communities and the world of ends
Using Ecolanguage to explain complicated systems
Scrapping institutional education in favour of community apprenticeship learning
Fuel for thought (psychological roots of SUVs)
