Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Phosphorus Famine: The Threat to Our Food Supply
Revealed: The Bid to Corner World’s Bluefin Tuna Market
Bob Shaw: Have you hugged your bag of NPK and S today?
Community Kitchens
Fighting for the right to grow food in L.A.
Frugal foods
Passing of Father Thomas Berry, noted ecological thinker
It Isn’t Nice
A Promise to Be Ethical in an Era of Immorality
It matters to us and to the 1.5 billion people in Asia: Dixit
Forest carbon market already shows cracks
California forests hold one answer to climate change
Nicholas Stern’s heresy: conceding the West’s climate burden
Obama’s Middle East Speech: VIDEO, Full Text
Using New Language, President Shows Understanding for Both Sides in Middle East
Obama’s Cairo speech
Shibley Telhami on Obama’s Historic Speech
Special documentary by ABC – ‘Earth 2100’: the Final Century of Civilization?
Reviews by peak oilers
Technology seen key to oil sands: Chu
Waxman Irks Allies by Bargaining With Companies on Climate Bill
Climate Bill Earmarks $500M for Clean Coal
In the rare instances where I come across a book that is a feast for the mind and soul I wrestle with it as with a lover. Pages get dog-eared, the pen comes out and notes appear all over. Great passages are underlined. There are coffee and wine stains. This marks my affair with a great book. “Sacred Demise” is the first such book I have read in many years.
Recently I’ve begun compiling a list of things to be cheerful about. Here are some items that should bring a smile to any environmentalist’s lips:
Apathy threatens humanity, ex-Clinton aide says
Ten reasons why population control can’t stop climate change
‘Generation Green’ Environmentally Oblivious
Setting the pace to create the greenest building ever
Car-Driven Society Poses Health Risk for Americans
Bryn Davidson on Peak Oil, Climate Change and Transportation at the 2009 Art Center Sustainable Mobility Summit
Communicating Transition
Empathy Marketing 101
Miller-McCune Receives Utne Independent Press Award
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