Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Many proposed responses to the crisis of industrial society focus on drafting plans for a new society in advance. Is this as sensible as it seems, or do we need to approach the future before us in a more improvisational way?
Democrats brace for ‘midnight rules’ from Bush
Bad economy threatens Obama’s climate fix
White House prods allies to oppose limits on greenhouse gases
Left out of the bailout: the poor
Monthly Review: Getting to the root of environmental crises
And now for some refreshing revolutionary anarcho-leftism
The words “holy crap” were pretty much the first ones to my lips this morning, when several people sent me George Monbiot’s latest column…After being so flattered I could die, I suffered the irresistable desire to argue back, and I’m going to…
U.S. pledges top $7.7 trillion to ease frozen credit
Kunstler: Zombie economics
Homer-Dixon: Deflation’s big game
Bailouts dwarf spending on climate and poverty crises
Perelman: Where did the economic crisis come from?
Reality meets ideology (on Fox News)
How the new racial landscape of America meets the Green movement, increasing the visibility of both.
Alaska’s Key to Oil Production – It’s a Gas…
UK: Coal’s return raises pollution threat
Oil giants talk tax to kill environment
Lower speed limit to tackle obesity crisis, say experts
Planners to consider S.F. congestion charge
Bike accidents open door to paths
Council obstructs family’s ethical land project
Monbiot: The planet is now so vandalised that only total energy renewal can save us
Forest protection plan could displace millions, say campaigners
Schwarzenegger’s bid to save the rainforest
Tell Barack Obama the Truth – The Whole Truth (about climate change) – PDF
Green-basher Boris relaunches himself as an eco-warrior
King coal wins battle of Smalley
Power in the desert: solar towers will harness sunshine of southern Spain
American Physical Society Report on Energy Efficiency
Challenges To Environmentally Responsible Energy Use In Today’s Society
At a New York Seminary, a Green Idea Gets Tangled in Red Tape
Peak oil activists from across the nation gathered on a college campus over the Halloween weekend to confront the scary prospects of declining worldwide oil production – and to focus on how they and their communities can cope. “People can find ways to lead happy, fulfilling lives even as this doomed system crumbles all around them,” Russian immigrant writer Dmitry Orlov told the conference.
