Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
It’s getting more and more onerous for me to interface with the dominant culture. Delusion is the water in which we swim. You can see it everywhere and anywhere and elsewhere and right here, well-documented and critiqued in Guy McPherson’s recent blog, Scale, and in Keith Farnish’s latest at Culture Change, Time to Decide What Matters. The depths of our cultural insanity astound.
But that’s the easy part, seeing the delusion around us.
-The way we eat is trashing the fragile conditions that make human life possible
-Syria: Drought driving farmers to the cities
-Plans for White House farmers’ market move forward
-Big Food vs. Big Insurance
-Food for all
-The Problem With ‘Eat Local’
-James McWilliams’ over-hyped and undercooked anti-locavore polemic
-Just Food
The next case of $120 oil, assuming we get there before the industrial economy falls into the abyss, will be brutal for an already over-stretched American consumer. Banks are falling like dominoes on a mule cart over the bumpy terrain of declining energy supplies. When will the lights go out?
[T]he present healthcare system is unsustainable for two sets of (interconnected) reasons, fiscal and ecological. The fiscal side receives attention in the current debate, but most discussion underestimates the problems and proposes solutions that provide little more than temporary band-aids… Our collective understanding of the ecological dimension is abysmal, especially its connection to the economy, and if grasped would lead to the abandonment of politics and business as usual in medicine and throughout society.
This episode of Equal Time Radio mostly discusses Jeff Mapes’ book Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities with the author, plus Vermont cycling issues.
We take a look at recent questions regarding Organic Foods and Organic Regulations. Our guests include organic advocates, industry officials, and former members of federal regulations in organic food & agriculture.
-Oil lobby to fund campaign against Obama’s climate change strategy
-‘Energy Citizens’ Take Aim at Climate Legislation
-An American neocon defends the NHS
-Democrats Seem Set to Go It Alone on a Health Bill
-Pesticides in your peaches
-The obvious advantage of organic food over conventional
-A debate about soil, organics, and nutrition
-Will Health Care Slip on Oil?
-Obama: Health Care Critics Creating ‘Boogeymen’ That ‘Aren’t Real’
-Facts, fallacies on what is buried on legislation’s pages
-With House food-safety bill a done deal, questions remain
-Organic food ‘no better for health than factory-farmed food’ says report
-Bill would restrict antibiotics in food animals
