Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The next worst idea to turning tar sands into synthetic crude is turning ocean water into municipal drinking water. Sounds great until you zoom in on the environmental costs and energetic consequences. It may be technically feasible, but in the end it is unsustainable and will be just one more stranded asset.
Yellow is the New Green
The Economist special report: Talking rubbish
The truth about recycling
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
– Production and prices
– Obama’s budget
– Briefs
Hard Times for Horses
Sport failing to take role in environmental protection
Mr. Whipple Left It Out: Soft Is Rough on Forests
Cardoso, Gaviria, Zedillo Urge Obama to Decriminalize Marijuana
Compostmodern ’09
4 Models for Organizing a Community for an Uncertain Future
Post Carbon Newsletter – February 2009
Monbiot: Cutting consumption is more important than limiting population
Interview with William Halal and Dmitry Orlov
World Made by Hand and post-apocalyptic fiction: a prepper’s perspective
[Within the next three weeks, my forthcoming book, Sacred Demise: Walking The Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization’s Collapse will be released and will be available for purchase at this website and at the Amazon and Barnes & Noble websites. Below is the book’s foreword written by Sarah Anne Edwards, Ph.D. and co-author of Middle Class Lifeboat.
Obama focuses on green economy in speech before Congress
The Obama Code
Economic Crisis Complicates California’s Goals on Climate
Oil’s not well in Canada
A Marxist view of Obama’s prospects
Bill Clinton on the Future of Energy
Legalizing cannabis: is the ground shifting?
U.S. Housing Starts Fell to Record Low in January
In Paris, an anti-ad insurgency
The man behind Obama’s online strategy
The death of the news
New report: “Public media 2.0: dynamic, engaged publics”
Sustainable fashion: will government help bin throwaway culture?
Is there a viable eco alternative to leather?
Relocalizing clothing in North Carolina
The Abyss Stares Back
Owners must be weaned off the house-price drug
Bears in the finance-media zoo
