Then & now
Recently a friend gave me a copy of a January 22, 1973 issue of Newsweek. The cover title was “The Energy Crisis”. It’s interesting to look back and see how things have changed; or, to be more accurate, not changed.
Media & Communications
Solutions & sustainability – July 10
David de Rothschild: Saving the world, one adventure at a time
Before We ‘Save’ Journalism
Auto-ban: German town goes car-free
Homestead Aesthetics
I know a lot of people who read “shelter magazines” – which is just a fancy way of saying magazines full of pretty homes. I admit to liking to look at them in checkout lines myself, since they do help me beautify my house – just not the way they are supposed to. I think: ”Wow, that’s a gorgeous sleigh bed – I’d love that…hmmm…8,000 dollars….yeah, my futon’s looking cozier and more elegant already!”
Transition Towns – July 9
Book Review: The Transition Timeline
Insights on Resilience from the Recent History of Totnes. 1: Back garden food production
Tooting Catches Carnival Cash
Deep thought – July 9
World at Gunpoint – Or, what’s wrong with the simplicity movement
The Malthusian insult
New book looks at economic devastation in an Iowa meat-packing town
Food & agriculture – July 9
Eat What You Grow, Grow What You Eat?
Coming Soon: ‘Local Food’, a Transition guide, and an interview with the author
Pelosi buys off agri-business to advance climate bill
Climate action & inaction – July 8
New Climate Strategy: Track the World’s Wealthiest
Gore: Deal on Emissions from Land Useage Change Critical
Gavin Schmidt: a climatologist trying to give out the right signals amid the noise
India Says Developed Nations Are Responsible for Climate Change
How the US Is Blocking Progress on Climate Change
Bikes and traffic – July 8
How driving a car into Manhattan costs $160
Bicycle Production Reaches 130 Million Units
Bike Among the Ruins
MuseLetter 206 – June 2009 (French translation)
Ce mois-ci, la Museletter réunit deux articles qui partagent un thème commun : l’Humanité est-elle capable de réaliser les changements nécessaires au sauvetage de la planète et par la même occasion à son propre sauvetage ?
Grief made in America is not “good grief”
This morning as I was gathering news for Truth to Power’s Daily News Digest, I opened Sharon Astyk’s blogspot, one of my very favorite, to find her caustic commentary on the death and funeral of Michael Jackson. As her comments distilled in my mind and body, I realized that I have even more to say about this cultural phenomenon-no desire to say it better than Sharon because who could (?), but hopefully to embellish her inimitable incisiveness.
United States – July 8
In Mother Russia, She’s 1st Lady of Gardening
Why Jimmy Carter’s Malaise Speech Is More Relevant than Ever
The Film Big Coal Does Not Want You to See
Solutions & sustainability – July 7
California’s green dream
Reframing Recession Fears to Conscious Consumerism
Costa Rica is World’s Greenest, Happiest Country
