Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The past few days, delegates from 20 of the worlds largest economies met in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania to further develop international strategies to deal with the ongoing financial, energy and social crises.
In my father’s house are many mansions. Surely one of them has a room with no elephants in it….
Not to crunch too many metaphors right here at the top, but a consensus seems to be firming up in the animate jello of the Internet that we have entered the Season of the Witch. An odor of ripeness fills the virtual air — something between dead carp and apples baking. Whatever else appears to be going on in the upper stories and verdigris-tinged turrets of capital finance…the most perplexing part is that there hardly seems any safe place to preserve one’s savings.
Thoughts on the relationship between food issues, rural movements, and Climate Camps. To be more specific: this post mainly compares the distinct focuses and limitations of the Diggers’ movement toward agricultural autonomy, and the Climate Campers’ rallies and interventions against coal plants, airport expansion projects, and other commercially-driven operations.
The outlook for consumption growth in the over-leveraged United States is bleak. Economists Menzie Chinn and Jeffrey Frieden discussed the origins of the financial crisis, the debt situation in the U.S. and the global outlook in Reflections on the Causes and Consequences of the Debt Crisis of 2008. This text broadly describes the origin of the crisis.
-Books for Review: Portfolios of the poor
-Post-Bubble Malaise
-A year after financial crisis, the consumer economy is dead
-It’s Business as Usual Again for Wall Street’s Casino Capitalists
-Why the era of economic growth is over
-The “green-Prometheans” – better, but still a futile gesture?
Now the Task Force’s final Report, completed last March, is being formally considered by the Supervisors on Thursday, Sept. 24, at 1 pm in the Legislative Chamber in City Hall. In this critique I point to positive, progressive initiatives in the Report, some weak areas in it, and above all the essence of understanding peak oil and its implications — significantly lacking in San Francisco and beyond.
-Public bored by climate change, says IPPR
-Important week for global warming
-Politicians on climate: a failure of wit, will and imagination
-Buy ‘Climate Change’ — Now With Added Warming Power
-Collapse or survive: the stark choice facing our species
-Human-made Crises ‘Outrunning Our Ability To Deal With Them,’ Scientists Warn
-City life is a honey trap from Frances’ beleaguered bees
-A New Way to Turn Plastic Into Fuel?
-Don’t despair — get out there and do something
-Conservation for a New Era
This report was issued by the Center for Naval Analyses’ Military Advisory Board, which consists of a dozen retired senior military officers. Powering America’s Defense comes two years after the Military Advisory Board’s landmark report, “Climate Change” (May, 2007). This review of Powering will examine the way its authors deal with the issues of peak oil, oil imports and the potential for oil supply shocks.
-G-20 Nations Divided over How to Fix World Economy
-G20 Focus: Another battle begins
-Globalization Goes Bankrupt
-Not your average peak oil theory, from Macquarie
-Total issues oil shortage warning
-Would You Know How to Survive After the Oil Crash?
-Squeezing the last bit of oil from Mother Earth
-UK at risk of global energy shock, says MPC’s Andrew Sentance
