Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
May I speak for those who do things not for payment, but simply because they love them, or they are fascinated with them, or infuriated by them? Speaking as one of many people who began blogging not to compete with anyone, but because they simply care deeply about a subject, deeply enough that even the boring bits are fascinating, I can honestly say that there are things that no payday can ever fuel.
U.S. Navy Cuts Energy Consumption 12%
Report highlights vital fact on energy: Efficiency gets cheaper the more you spend on it
Peak Moment: Energy Investment, Energy Return
James Hansen on why scientists should speak out
American shores face threat of rising sea level
Faster climate change feared
Web overtakes newspapers as source of news in US survey
How to blog
Julian Darley a-blog
Ecofont saves ink
Groups soliciting funds to buy BLM leases (student disrupts auction)
Coal front group sets up dirty ‘blogger brigade’
Korea oil bunker
Most contemporary thought about the future relies consciously or unconsciously on the belief that history has a direction that the future will inevitably follow. Does this “historicist” outlook offer useful insights, or are those who cling to such notions of inevitability fooling themselves?
Vancouver mayor promises action on peak oil
The year 2008 in photographs
Sarkozy fears spectre of 1968 haunting Europe
New York Times beefs up environment coverage
Scientists find increased methane levels in Arctic Ocean
The Vermont Creed
Ban bottled water
Sentient Times and social change
Going green for Hanukkah
Ashland group pushes for ‘transition town’ status
Slow Towns
Life Without Cars
The dead mall problem
As I sip my morning espresso, I have a brief moment of longing for an earlier time when I could make my stovetop coffee quickly on a gas burner. It takes a lot longer using this electric one. Little did we know that gas was right behind oil in peaking. Fortunately we finally have plenty of solar-produced electricity and, once again, access to coffee. So it’s a minor inconvenience, but just another reminder of things we used to take for granted.
Climate news reporting routinely draws big, loud pushback
On Reading in an Age of Depression
Writing’s on the Wall for Newspapers
The Death of News?
News You Can Lose
A media meltdown threatens the Great Lakes
Energy Bulletin: Journalism is dead, long live the new journalism!
Citizen journalism will shape the new face of the Oakland Press
How long can newspapers keep delivering the news?
