Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Edward Carpenter: a pioneering open democrat
A 21st-century battle we must win for all the world’s sake
Consuming anxiety
Turning a corner (on peak oil)
Sharon Astyk: What I’d like to have been able to say to New York Times readers
Kittens and climate change
Climate change is driving increase in tiger attacks
Climate change is ‘faster and more extreme’ than feared
How to talk to a climate skeptic
Sharon Astyk is one of those “loony tunes” who shows her concern for the planet by depriving her children of central heat and baseball, or at least that’s how she’s portrayed in the New York Times article by writer Joanne Kaufman.
This article is part of a new media genre that takes the serious worries of almost two-thirds of Americans, and creates a special brand of pathology designed to stigmatize, pathologize, trivialize, and marginalize their concerns. In some articles, they call such activism “eco-anxiety” and seek out therapists who “treat” the “disorder.” In this article, she’s coined a new name for the ‘disease,’ calling it “carborexia,” and apparently it is a disease that is spreading.
Thesis on peak oil and potential solutions
Transition Towns: Ecotopia Emerging?
Economic crisis indicates critical need for relocalization
The Garden of Eatin’: A Short History of America’s Garden (YouTube)
Sulfur critical for phosphorus fertilizer
Organic farming ‘could feed Africa’
Australia: No opt-out of filtered Internet
The electronic activist
Corporate curriculum (industry-sponsored education materials)
Mexico City: Bad air for growing brains and minds
Code green, stat! (environmental sins of hospitals)
Why journalists stay silent
Heinberg: The magic market
Worthwhile videos + ASPO conference DVDs
From the subprime crisis to the financial meltdown, peak oil the hidden responsible
April 2007 forecast – the connection between PO and the collapse of the monetary system
Nature loss ‘dwarfs bank crisis’
Climate author goes political
Global fund ‘could pay owners to keep rainforests safe’
I was struck by how eerily similar are the now admitted journalistic lapses and the failure to connect the dots in the financial story to what we have been witnessing in the media’s coverage of peak oil. The heart of Kurtz’s apologia in the Washington Post is the troubling question “Why didn’t they see this coming?”
“Heading Out” on ASPO-USA Sacramento
The Oil Drum honored at ASPO-USA Sacramento
Peak oil and retirement
Heinberg: Bursting bubbles
Matt Simmons: Oil and gas — The next meltdown?
Companies scramble for ever-scarcer resources
Personal view of ASPO-USA – day 3
The recurring myth of peak oil
Complex issues in a world of soundbites
