Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Because I am not a nice girl, or maybe not merely a nice girl, I feel that I should point out that the peak oil movement and the climate change movement are losing the race to plan the future, and to a large degree it is because we are refusing to be practical, also known as Machiavellian. Like all high minded people, we’re getting our asses kicked by the low-minded ones.
Getting over the cash and carry mentality
Bruce Sterling: My dot-green future is here
Activist hopes Missoula can break free from petroleum’s yoke
My Purim-spiel
To meet the need for news and commentary on perhaps the greatest challenges facing the United States today – human-caused global warming and a projected energy shortage – Conserve Magazine was launched today.
As we approach the peak of world oil production, and proposed solutions proliferate, the social momentum of the industrial world moves the other way. The connection between the two sides of this paradox may be closer than it appears.
World Bank: Deforestation Good for Growth
Slavery returns to Britain on large scale
Inadequate power supply killing cement co
Colin Campbell on the Isle of Man
TOD: That cubic mile
Kunstler critiques urban planning, oil shortage
Challenges and advances in Solar Cooking
Cleaner consumption and the low-carbon life
Making green computing even greener
Local Currencies: Replacing Scarcity with Trust
Report of change
Lost in the bush 40 minutes from Auckland
China Stocks Sink 8.8% on Crackdown Fears
Asian Stocks Fall after China’s rout
U.S. stocks plunge to worst 1-day drop since 2001
Perhaps it is just sour grapes that I have no inventing skills, and thus am doomed to poverty and obscurity, but Richard Branson’s $25 million climate change prize reminds me of the time our refrigerator broke down.
Crises and large scale challenges create fear in many but inspire others to act. What gives relocalization greater value than many other responses is its broader benefit to society, especially to local farmers, producers, community enterprise and businesses.
Kunstler talk: “America, think downscale!”
Climate change, peak oil and nuclear war
Study sees harmful hunt for extra oil
Climate Change, sabre tooth tigers and devaluing the future
Children’s TV ‘is linked to cancer, autism, dementia’
Scientific evidence: TV rots brain, ruins body
Malaysia to confine foreign workers
Endangered languages encode plant and animal knowledge
