Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
“Transitioning gracefully from the Age of Excess to the Era of Modesty” – the subtitle of Richard Heinberg’s forthcoming book – invokes not just an era of more modest usage, but also social, sexual and cultural modesty, subjects that, if they are discussed at all, tend to be thought of as discussions to be had on the “right” rather than throughout the political spectrum.
Beneath the radar screens there were a number of developments that could foreshadow important changes in our way of life, much sooner than we would like to think.
For decades our collective conversation about the future has focused on claims that the eleventh hour has arrived and radical change is the only alternative to imminent catastrophe. Inevitably the peak oil situation has been portrayed in these terms.
Altar call for true believers
‘Right to Dry’ movement: the clothesline makes a comeback
Sharon Astyk on cutting your laundry energy
The newly appointed head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has put the big hush on one of the government’s most important safety agencies. The agency’s new policy effectively means that some of the world’s top safety researchers are no longer allowed to talk to reporters or to be freely quoted about automotive safety issues that affect pretty much everybody.
Hundreds protest in Myanmar over fuel price hike
Myanmar arrests dissidents, squashes fuel protests
Behind Burma’s fuel price rise
Fuel price policy explodes in Myanmar (Update)
When the sun is shining, break out the solar oven
Slow is beautiful
Building the climate camp (video)
Monbiot: Beneath Heathrow’s pall of misery, a new political movement is born
US castoffs resume dirty career
Greenhouse development rights: climate-clean and fair?
Naked on a glacier to spread global warming message
Warming will exacerbate water conflicts
No argument was ever won by people trying to hide or manipulate freedom of movement or speech. It is an ugly culture that cannot welcome its potential friends, and debate with its enemies, and which feels it must control people’s perceptions so crudely.
Offshoring emissions, historical carbon and climate imperialism
Distributed generation of Amory Lovins’ brainpower
Ecological economist Herman E. Daly on climate change: From ‘know how’ to ‘do now’
Singing the nation electric: post-oil democracy
Myanmar’s junta imposes 100% fuel hike
Dubai on ice (conspicuous consumption)
The case against expanding Heathrow airport
Crematorium concern over carbon footprint
Carbon market encourages chopping forests
Scientists warn Arctic sea ice is melting at its fastest rate
