Deep thought – April 26
Jason Bradford: Revisiting relocalization
What are friends for? A longer life
Limits to growth model worth another look
Japan honours ‘Limits to Growth’ science author
Earth to aliens: let’s talk
Health
Suffer the little children – April 11
Commodifying kids: the forgotten crisis
Research links poor kids’ stress, brain impairment
Pollution link with birth weight
Food & agriculture – Apr 10
Meet the veg doctor
Human Impacts on Ecosystems
Household Dry Food Cooking
Food Industry Pursues the Strategy of Big Tobacco
Will New Food Safety Bills Really Outlaw Backyard Gardening and End Farmers’ Markets?
A conversation with Gail-The-Actuary
“The idea of scaling back is a real difficulty for these growth-based medical institutions… and how do you deal with a bigger and bigger uninsured population? How do you provide preventive care [and] some level of basic care” in a post-peak oil world? These are, in my view, the kinds of questions reformers should be asking.”
Economics – Apr 2
G20 leaders get OECD warning that global trade is in freefall
A Stimulus for Working Fewer Hours
Chavez promotes `petro-currency’ over dollar
Public health and the episteme of growth
Academic public health is ensconced in an institutional matrix of growth. It owes much of its existence to the socioeconomic expansion petroleum facilitated during the 20th century. … The best option I see for academic public health is to reorganize itself around the question: “If growth and economic development as they have been understood are no longer possible, then what kind of public health system is sustainable?”
EntropyPawsed Perspective on Health & Dis-ease
Most Americans are dis-connected from everything essential for survival. We have lost meaningful connections with the sources of our water, food, shelter, clothing, with our fellow humans in community, with those we love, with The Mystery of Life. No wonder we feel dis-eased!
Peak oil & supplies – March 22
Russia to cut oil exports, raise domestic consumption – Sechin
Saudi warns of ‘catastrophic’ energy crunch
Mass. conference on health care and peak oil (April 14)
Economics – March 22
U.N. panel says world should ditch dollar
Too big to fail? Think again
The economy is a real killer (health and recession)
Keynes, capitalism, and the crisis (John Bellamy Foster interview)
China’s big recycling market is sagging
Happiness & dysfunction – March 22
Are we happier in the West?
U! S! A! We’re Number …. 15?
Experts agree giant, razor-clawed bioengineered crabs pose no threat
U.N. raises “low” population projection for 2050
Solutions & sustainability – March 22
Innovating for a low-carbon age
Minimalist living in Silicon Valley
Jason Bradford: Household and community food security
Maggots as good as gel in leg ulcer treatments
Reuse stores make use of refuse
Sprouts!
Sprouting is a great way to produce some of your own food. If you have access to some clean jars, lids with screens, clean water, and appropriate seeds, you can raise your own sprouts.
