Fed Chairman Paul Volcker’s Thoughts On Goverance
Fed Chairman Paul Volcker’s Thoughts On Goverance For many people, former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker’s relevance today is rooted in how he broke the back of surging inflation in 1980. He is widely credited with employing the harsh policies that ended the high levels of inflation seen in the United States during the 1970s and […]
Free Food: 33 Foods You Can Forage From July–September
Free Food: 33 Foods You Can Forage From July–September The summer months are a great time to forage for nature-grown edibles. Depending on what part of the country you live in, you are bound to find a few wild foods to take back with you! The summer months are a great time to forage for […]
Chronicling Ecosystem Collapse from the Tropics to the Antarctic
Chronicling Ecosystem Collapse from the Tropics to the Antarctic “We assessed evidence of collapse in 19 ecosystems (both terrestrial and marine) along a 58° latitudinal gradient for which major signals of change have been reported.” Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic A better title would have been “We aren’t Combatting Ecosystem Collapse from the Tropics […]
Water Woes
Water Woes If you live in a place where water falls from the sky during summer this blog is perhaps not so helpful. However, gardeners in much of the western United States will suffer this summer from hot days (sometimes record breaking) and will need to irrigate their gardens and trees in order for them […]
*Summertime, and the livin’ is easy…
*Summertime, and the livin’ is easy… If you listen closely you can hear the beasties in your garden just a-singin’ that tune. And who can blame them? Warm temperatures and lush green gardens? They enjoy them as much as we do. But sometimes they can be enjoying our landscape a little too much. So now […]
#228. In the eye of the Perfect Storm
#228. In the eye of the Perfect Storm A GUIDE TO THE SURPLUS ENERGY ECONOMY FOREWORD The title of this report makes intentional reference to the Perfect Storm paper published by Tullett Prebon back in 2013, when I was head of research at that organization. Since then, my efforts have been concentrated on (a) promoting discussion (at Surplus Energy […]
No Farmers, No Food, No Life
No Farmers, No Food, No Life The world is now facing a man-made food catastrophe. It is reaching crisis levels. Current policies in many parts of the world place a priority on climate change for realizing a green new deal. Meanwhile, such policies will contribute to children dying from severe malnutrition due to broken food […]
Micro utopias for an inclusive future
Micro utopias for an inclusive future When Gijsbert Huijink, a Dutch national living in Banyoles, in the Catalan province of Girona, set out to install solar panels in his home he stumbled upon a legal labyrinth that criminalized energy self-consumption. “If I wanted to connect to the grid to recharge my batteries and supply my […]
We are One Species
We are One Species Homeless camp and salmon mural under Morrison Bridge, Portland, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The world is a mess, in both social and ecological terms, mired in unjust and unsustainable systems. Responsibility for this condition is not shared equally. Powerful nations define world politics that has produced dramatic wealth inequality, and […]
Why The EU Could End Within A Year
Why The EU Could End Within A Year Germany, which has been high-and-mighty within the European Union and has imposed austerity against weaker European economies such as in Greece, Spain, Italy, and Portugal, is now demanding that other EU member nations bail Germans out of what will soon inevitably be an energy-emergency that results from Germany’s […]
Israel’s War On Cash Is About To Get More Drastic
Israel’s War On Cash Is About To Get More Drastic Starting Monday, it will be a criminal offense in Israel to pay more than the equivalent of $1,700 in cash to a business or $4,360 in cash to individual, as the government intensifies its ongoing war on tangible money. It’s a war that began in earnest […]
We Are Going To See Energy Prices Go Absolutely Nuts This Winter Just As We Plunge Into A Horrifying Global Economic Crisis
We Are Going To See Energy Prices Go Absolutely Nuts This Winter Just As We Plunge Into A Horrifying Global Economic Crisis How would you feel if your power bill went up by 50 percent this winter? How about 100 percent? Unfortunately, these kinds of price increases are already being announced. The world was heading […]
Gas Levy Could Triple Household Heating Bills In Germany
Gas Levy Could Triple Household Heating Bills In Germany Germany plans to introduce a levy for all its gas consumers beginning in October as the government looks to avoid a wave of collapsing gas-importing and gas-trading companies amid record-high natural gas prices, a new bill seen by Reuters showed on Thursday. Russia is further reducing flows via […]
