Peak oil – June 18
Simmons: Raised Saudi output is `drop in bucket’
Oil woes hitting health care system
Peak oil – worry now
Kris Can speaks with Kunstler
Health
Food & agriculture – June 16
Putting Meat Back in Its Place
Seattle: Urban folks find farming a tough row to hoe
Brooklyn’s hopeful gardeners
The smaller the farm, the better the food
A big reason for eating locally — it tastes better.
Food shock – May 29
Amartya Sen: The rich get hungrier
Food banks squeezed by prices, demand
Soaring energy prices ‘force up cost of food’
Responses – May 22
The changing role of the peak oil-aware
Astyk: So, you’ve just discovered peak oil!
NZ Guide to Surviving the Future 2008
Dangers of focusing solely on climate change (or PO)
Water: world crisis
“Water will be the oil of the 21st century.”
(Mammoth collection of links and excerpts).
Food & agriculture – May 20
Fat chance – policy vs personal
Sharon Astyk: Won’t we prioritize energy for agriculture?
World hunger, agribusiness and the food sovereignty alternative
Dysfunction – May 17
Obesity contributes to global warming
Why puberty at an ever-younger ages?
Environmental results of the Gold Rush
Not as green as they claim to be
Oil, food and agrotherapy
It is a good time for an increasing number of people to return to the multiple benefits and pleasures of growing at least part of their own food by gardening and farming. In addition to satisfying the need to eat and drink, farming can also help deal with depression, passivity, and other forms of psychological suffering. It can help treat both the body and the soul.
Deep thought – May 15
Kunstler and Orlov interview
Climate change and public health
Sharon Astyk: Problems and principles of energy descent
David Korten: Navigating the Great Turning from empire to earth community
Clay Shirky on deploying the cognitive surplus for the public good
Psychological – May 2
Green is the new neurotic
Eco-anxiety: a call to action
Astyk: Kindergarten ethics and disasters
We can survive but can we communicate?
Rising energy costs and the future of hospital work
Fossil fuel costs will continue to rise and eventually the healthcare system will be forced to downsize – just as the Baby Boomers and (possibly) climate change effects – inundate the system.
(Paper delivered at a nurses’ convention)
