Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
This is the story of two very different cities. One is a city whose past is steeped in historic achievement, and recent failure. The other is a city whose horrific past has gotten desperately worse, but whose future… well, who knows? Though world’s apart, these places embody a common metaphor for an elusive global possibility.
At this juncture in the industrial age, we have two tired, one-armed lifeguards and a handful of victims. All eyes are on Greece — fittingly, the birthplace of western civilization — but Greece, which naturally turned to Goldman Sachs to try to hide its debt, is one tiny canary in a coal mine the size of Earth.
-America’s Food-To-Fuel Problem
-EU biofuels significantly harming food production in developing countries
-Burn Up the Biosphere and Call It Renewable Energy
-Palm oil deal ‘a threat to the rainforest’
The reason such sloppy critiques of climate science have gained so much traction with the public has less to do with their scientific logic–which is almost nonexistent–and more to do with human psychology.
My disappointment in government leaders is matched by my admiration for a new influential group of Americans, whom I call lifestyle leaders — those who take matters into their own hands, by building gardens, weatherizing their homes, getting rid of their cars… Believing this group may hold the key to the rapid dissemination of low-energy lifestyles, I conducted an online survey of 2,005 of them in late 2009.
-Tribalism and a Place at the Table
-Walking: A simple focus for the Smart Growth movement
-A Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition
-Network Theory: A Key to Unraveling How Nature Works
-How to Get Our Democracy Back
-Globalization Is Killing The Globe: Return to Local Economies
– Marmalade and the gift economy
– How Hurricane Katrina turned me into a citrus fanatic and marmalade maker
– Obsessives: Marmalade (video)
– Evil Mad Scientist: Marmalade is way easier than it looks
– Wikipedia: What is it?
– A.A. Milne: Marmalade instead of butter
-Defusing the Methane Greenhouse Time Bomb
-Think-tanks take oil money and use it to fund climate deniers
-China: Prince of Denmark
-Loss Of Species Hits Economy
Are current corporate-dominated international institutions inadequate to the task of meeting the multiple planetary survival challenges they themselves have helped create?…Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute (postcarbon.org), talks about the factors contributing to the stalemate in the Copenhagen climate summit, the other ‘game ending’ challenges confronting the current economic system, and the bottom-up steps necessary to move to a post-carbon economy.
– A taste of permaculture in Belize (video)
– Local food — by and for the people (video)
– Rob Hopkins on homepage of New Scientist
– Transition San Francisco recognized as 55th US transition initiative
– The Making of an Elder Culture
– Slow-tech: Manifesto for an overwound world
– Stuck accelerators: Toyotas and the fossil-fuel growth economy
– Energy flow, emergent complexity, and collapse
