Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Exhibit at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. “The majority of the world’s designers focus all their efforts on developing products and services exclusively for the richest 10% of the world’s customers. Nothing less than a revolution in design is needed to reach the other 90%.”
Reaction to the recent sustainability plan for New York City: “I expected to see steps that ask people to give more of themselves than their money. Why weren’t people encouraged to educate themselves about energy? Learn where it comes from. Don’t blindly accept proposals offered by government, corporations, or so-called experts.”
What the world eats (photo essay)
Review: Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
A perennial search for perfect wheat
Farming the deep blue sea
Brookside Farm- growing food, growing energy
Archdruid: Is history on anyone’s side?
The empire of crime
Preaching the gospel of green
The thing about technology
The present is pregnant with the future
Consumerism is dead- long live self-sufficiency!
Movie review: What a Way to Go (Life at the End of Empire)
Recreating “An Inconvenient Truth”s Manhattan flooding in Google Earth
CIA Factbook: China has best current account balances; U.S. the worst
Helium: a vanishing commodity
Australian Farmers say government laws are illegal in land clearing
Nature-deficit disorder
Transition Conference in UK: “feels historic”
What you can do about Peak Oil
Citizen media
The future of philanthropy: Innovation, networks, thought leaders and the fringe
“This book reveals very poignantly what has been lost in American culture.”
Carbon Neutral Watch – Corporates, Consultants And Credibility
The Bored Whore of Kyoto
Emissions plan hurts households, but not big polluters
A Note to Writers: Choose Your Voice and Your Media Carefully
Communication Tools: Make Them Simple and Ubiquitous or They Won’t Be Used
Not everyone’s a Feynmann
Below are comments I presented before my local transportation planning agency concerning its 2030 plan [in which I question the assumption that liquid fuels will remain abundant and cheap]. I hope these comments will provide some ideas for those who want to comment on plans in their own locales.
A while back a gentleman named Harvey Winston sent me an email, trying to explain why it is that the peak oil and climate change movements are as lily white as they are.
