Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
If we call those pessimistic about the future “Doomers,” what do we call those who are blindly and enthusiastically optimistic? We might call such optimism a “Panglossian Disorder” and the Peak Shrink suggest that it is a tough, culturally ubiquitous disorder to treat.
Rush to palm oil and biofuels in Indonesia threatens climate
Climate change a public health issue
CO2 for cooling not so bad
Focus on James Hansen (bio and ideas)
Online James Lovelock talk
UN: Poor countries will have to cut food consumption
TIME: Why our farm policy is failing
Restaurants becoming environmentally friendly
NOW program: Growing local, eating local
Whereas terrorism poses no fundamental threat to the functioning of our society, energy decline does because it can degrade non-medical and institutional determinants of health such as education, employment, housing, nutrition, transportation, and sanitation.
Michael Pollan on the farm bill
Church urges supermarkets to give farmers a fairer deal
Sharon Astyk: Change your diet
Food and community in Katine (Uganda)
Commodity, fuel costs boost grocery prices
Nordic nations sound alarm over melting Arctic
Australian researchers report on health effects of climate change
Tar sands growth makes meeting Kyoto targets less likely
Gov’t cannot halt oil incentives, judge rules
A break in Texas’s oil decline
Exxon’s crude nightmare
Is drilling method making people ill?
Children particularly at risk from global warming
Schwarzenegger regrets US’s poor climate effort
Malaria moves in behind the loggers (and climate change)
The other side of global warming (controlling the carbon cycle)
Full version of White House “edited” CDC climate report – with highlights!
I recently had the extraordinary privilege of sitting down with therapist and mentor, Carla Royal, to talk about collapse and how we can enhance our emotional well being as we prepare for and navigate it.
IPCC climate guru Steve Running
Hansen: drought, flooding threaten Texas
Climate change will hurt New Mexico water supply
Warming could wipe out half of all species
Greenland’s ice sheet melts as temperatures rise
Expert: Health risks rise as Earth warms
Canada: We’re the fattest nation of them all
Bob Dylan’s new ad for SUVs
Higher metal prices make theft attractive
Tests reveal high chemical levels in kids’ bodies
Continent-size toxic stew of plastic trash fouling swath of Pacific Ocean
Are boys an endangered species?
Mother fears ‘stinky neighborhood’ caused son’s cancer
Dioxin pollution leads to more baby girls: study
China’s surplus of sons: Geopolitical time bomb
Harbor seals may help determine effect of eating toxic fish
