Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
-Obama urges banks to accept new sense of responsibility
-Through the prism of fraud and poverty
-Keep banks on the straight and narrow
-A Critique of Ecological Economics
-From job to handouts in six weeks
-US Census Bureau Confirms Rising Poverty, Falling Incomes, And Growing Numbers Of Uninsured
-Can he fix it? Sarkozy’s carbon-tax plan derided by environmentalists
-New York Faces Dramatic Consequences of Crisis
-State predicts bright future for jobs in solar energy
-German Geothermal Project Leads to Second Thoughts After the Earth Rumbles
-Trees could be the ultimate in green power
-Renewables Transition 3: The Precautionary Principle
-Hawaii Tries Green Tools in Remaking Power Grids
-Schwarzenegger orders more renewable energy — his way
-Protesters March on Washington
-U.S. consumers cut debt by record $21.6 billion in July
-How the World’s Biggest Corporations, From Starbucks to Wal-Mart to Barnes & Noble, Claim to Be ‘Local’
Now that everybody in the USA, from the janitors in their man-caves to the president addressing congress, has declared the “recession” over, is exactly the moment when what’s left of the so-called economy is most likely to implode. If there were still shoeshine boys on Wall Street, they’d be starting their own hedge funds now, and CNBC’s Larry Kudlow would be toasting them in the Grill Room of The Four Seasons.
-Labour’s Crisis
-France’s Sarkozy pushes ahead with unpopular carbon tax
-The Great Cop-Out
-China Moves to Retaliate Against U.S. Tire Tariff
-Priceless: How The Federal Reserve Bought The Economics Profession
-Revealed: The ghost fleet of the recession
-Keynes: the return of the Master
Biting into a fresh-baked cookie from “Baked in Telluride” is a double treat — a yummy goody that also supports a local independent business. Owner Jerry Green has been going “green” for decades before it became fashionable. He shares the challenges of running an independent business in a tourist town while competing with bakeries thousands of miles away. While a town councilor, Jerry helped shape projects like affordable public housing and public transportation.
Steven Kopits, who runs the New York office of Douglas Westwood, was in Denver last week. He talked about his latest paper on peak oil and the economy with Steve Andrews and will share related remarks at the ASPO-USA conference next month. Steve popped a few questions:…
-The way we eat is trashing the fragile conditions that make human life possible
-Syria: Drought driving farmers to the cities
-Plans for White House farmers’ market move forward
-Big Food vs. Big Insurance
-Food for all
-Efforts to turn empty lots to a glass half full
-Obama’s Speech: The Doctor Is In
-Tom Friedman, our one-party democracy, and the clean energy jobs message
-Risk Pool
The recent debate in print between Paul Kingsnorth and George Monbiot on the possibility of saving industrial civilization from itself never quite got past some very problematic core assumptions. The Archdruid offers a third opinion on the subject.
-Debate about peak oil is misleading
-Saudi provides realistic outlook on energy future
-OAPEC to spend $133 bn on boosting refinery output
-Abu Dhabi to invest $10 bn on green projects
-UNDP Arab Human Development Report 2009
