Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Our quality of life, both collectively and individually, is more dependent on how we use our energy than on how much of it we use. We can better influence our quality of life through improving technics than through increasing energy.
Go bright green WorldChanging
Hazel Henderson: Time for true market reform
Architecture: Green and greener
Energy use study shows power of social norms
The people of Lampeter, a small community in the middle of rural Wales, gathered together earlier this week to mobilise for a new war effort. They decided to plan their “energy descent”.
Climate panel confident warming is underway
Deal is near on climate after disputes
Poorest to be hit hardest, say UN scientists
Study: New U.S. Dust Bowl?
UN Security Council to discuss climate threat
With all the attention on the great challenges and sacrifices ahead, I feel it incumbent to serve as an ambassador for the American low-energy lifestyle. It’s really not so bad, folks.
JM Greer: The shadow of our downfall
Sharon Astyk: World War II as metaphor
The limits of eco-localism: Scale, strategy, socialism
Palm oil failing as biofuel
Palm oil is not a failure as a biofuel
The biofuel of the future driving an ecological disaster now
Barbara Ehrenreich: How we learned to stop having fun
Projecting population, fertility and HIV/AIDS
In BC, life begins at 30
Mike Davis: Denial in the desert
Drought means no palms for Palm Sunday
Asia’s river systems face collapse
Malaysia makes rainwater collection mandatory for big roofs
Bates’s new book delivers a concise summary of the problems of peak oil and climate change followed by chapter after chapter of ideas to prepare yourself and your family to live more self-sufficiently… I have not yet tried his recipe for grasshopper quesadillas.
ELP plan: Economize, Localize & Produce
Chicks teach sustainable community
Peak Moment TV highlights localization
WorldChanging is making lists
CSIRO Sustainability Network newsletter
Lovins: US can cut oil imports to zero by 2040
Stories for sustainable future (Orlov on sailboats)
Poor nations to bear brunt as world warms
Climate report maps out ‘Highway to extinction’
GW could bring hunger, melt Himalayas
Global warming puts 60 nations at risk
Australia faces extreme weather rise
Health woes worldwide
