Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Bioneers transformed a sprawling suburban civic center north of San Francisco into an educational eco-village for a sell-out gathering of over 3000 people Oct. 14-16. Bioneers are “biological pioneers,” according to its producers Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons. Another 8000 or so participated in 16 sites around the United States and one in Canada.
There was an economy that loved SUVs /
To haul all its workers far from the cities. /
The cars pushed the economy to depend on more oil. /
But I dunno why it depended on oil; perhaps it will spoil. (To the tune of “There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly”)
Have you ever wondered why various winged insects (such as moths or nocturnal butterflies) tend to behave as if they are attracted to artificial light sources? In this essay I attempt to analyze this behavioral anomaly from a nonconventional angle.
The world is quickly being split into two hostile camps: those with cars, and those without. Nowhere is this division more apparent than in this city of 14 million people, where cars push bicycles onto the sidewalk and people up against the wall.
When I learned of Peak Oil a few months ago, it was all very familiar… As in Tolkien’s book, the world as we know is coming to an end, for better or worse. Within my lifetime, what is left of it, most of what I have grown to know, if not love, will pass away, forever.
American society must abandon the notion that science will provide clear-cut answers about the environment and climate change and learn to make policy decisions based on research trends and probabilities rather than absolute conclusions, [said Andrew Revkin,] New York Times science writer.
Good discussion of the dominant worldview in America and some sobering ideas of where we might be headed, and how it may be the best thing for us.
A worthy reply to the Freakonomics criticisms of peak oil.
Excellent calm take on both pump fright and peak oil from mainstream newspaper columnist. [subscription reqd for full text]
Peak Oil is an underlying reality that can be used as a key to open doors to understand
what is happening locally and globally.
Queensland Australia Parliament member Andrew McNamara speaks to David Room about discovering peak oil, explaining oil depletion to his colleagues and his constituents, and previews his state’s oil vulnerability task force. [Audio & Transcript]
It is hard to escape the sense that we are collectively fiddling while the whole planet burns. This issue of the NI tries to convey this message by strikingly different means – by gathering the work of some of the world’s greatest photographers to show the beauty of the planet we are in the process of destroying.
