Resistance is Not Futile – Does Our Entire Way of Life Depends on It?
Resistance is Not Futile – Does Our Entire Way of Life Depends on It? I find it amazing how stupid people can be. Those claiming if everyone just got vaccinated, we would all go back to normal. I know there were Jews in Germany who left early looking at the trend that was emerging and […]
Crisis hiding in plain sight
Crisis hiding in plain sight Putting a positive gloss on the news is especially important as we attempt to recover from a pandemic. And if that positive gloss is green in colour, so much the better. And so yesterday we were treated to the news that: “More electric vehicles were registered than diesel cars for the second […]
‘Preppers’ Quietly Stock Up for the ‘Perfect Storm’
Travis Maddox, a prepper and producer of “The Prepared Homestead” on YouTube, feeds his turkeys and chickens. (Courtesy Travis Maddox) US FEATURES ‘Preppers’ Quietly Stock Up for the ‘Perfect Storm’ A crippling ice storm that left Travis Maddox and thousands of other Missouri residents without power in 2007 had an “almost apocalyptic feel to it.” […]
Lake Oroville Hydro Power Plant Shut Down For First Time Due To Megadrought
Lake Oroville Hydro Power Plant Shut Down For First Time Due To Megadrought One of California’s most important hydroelectric plants has ceased operations due to falling water levels, according to the Department of Water Resources (DWR). On Wednesday, Lake Oroville fell to a record low of 642-feet above mean sea level. By Thursday, the lake stood at […]
The Threat of an Ice Age is Real
The Threat of an Ice Age is Real Most people have NEVER heard of the Beaufort Gyre, a massive wind-driven current in the Arctic Ocean that actually has far more influence over sea ice than anything we can throw into the atmosphere. The Beaufort Gyre has been regulating climate and sea ice formation for millennia. Recently, however, something has changed; […]
Beyond the Growth Imperative
Beyond the Growth Imperative For 30 years, environmental economist Tim Jackson has been at the fore of international debates on sustainability. Over a decade since his hugely influential Prosperity Without Growth, the world is both much changed – reeling from a pandemic and with unprecedented prominence for environmental issues – and maddeningly the same, still locked […]
Leveraging collaboration to tap into the potential of local foods
Leveraging collaboration to tap into the potential of local foods Photo Credit: North Coast Opportunities’ Caring Kitchen Project With farming being the root of the nation’s food supply, former President Barack Obama’s administration launched a federal Local Foods, Local Places (LFLP) program in 2014. This initiative was designed to help communities develop creative approaches to tap […]
Diagnosing Abiotic Disorders II
Diagnosing Abiotic Disorders II In this blog I continue to examine maladies caused by environmental conditions in the absence of a disease agent or insect. Salt affected plants show damage to older leaves starting from the edge of the leaf and moving inward. Salinity Salt in soils or water is simply the presence of too […]
Black Sea Turning Into “Zone of Dangerous Military Confrontation”: Russian Foreign Ministry
BLACK SEA TURNING INTO “ZONE OF DANGEROUS MILITARY CONFRONTATION”: RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY The Black Sea is turning into a zone of dangerous military confrontation, Yuri Pilipson, director of the Fourth European Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said in an interview with RIA Novosti. This was the diplomat’s answer to a question of how NATO […]
Peter Schiff: Central Banks Have Created the Mother of All Bubbles
Peter Schiff: Central Banks Have Created the Mother of All Bubbles The Federal Reserve and other central banks around the world have pumped trillions of dollars into the global economy and depressed interest rates to artificially low levels to blow up the mother of all bubbles. In his podcast, Peter Schiff explained how the recent […]
Seven Years after Mount Polley Disaster, Mine Waste Still Flows into Quesnel Lake
Seven Years after Mount Polley Disaster, Mine Waste Still Flows into Quesnel Lake A ‘temporary’ permit allows wastewater to be dumped in the water. That may not change anytime soon. The view from Quesnel Lake toward Mount Polley Mine’s tailings pond shows the scarred landscape following a breach of the mine’s tailings dam on Aug. […]
The only thing worse than an energy collapse
The only thing worse than an energy collapse We learned recently that one of the last coal power stations in the UK is bidding to become the first commercial nuclear fusion plant on Earth. The news should be taken with a large pinch of salt… nuclear fusion has been 25 years in the future since before I […]
The Future is a Landscape
The Future is a Landscape I’ve been reflecting of late about the way that our habitual expectations about change blind us to the way that change actually happens. One of the most important of these is the frankly weird but pervasive notion that the future is a single place, where only one kind of thing […]
It’s a Trap, Don’t Do It
It’s a Trap, Don’t Do It My last article focused on mindsets and how they can lead us into traps. One of the most pervasive of these traps is the energy trap. People are constantly searching for new types of energy, new energy generation, and/or ways to improve energy efficiency, ALL of which unfortunately are ultimately […]
Hubs of Resilience
Hubs of Resilience In December of last year, thanks to funding from The National Lottery Community Fund, the Transition: Bounce Forward project distributed £140,000 to 112 Transition projects across England. One of those projects was hubRen, a Hub of Resilience imagined by Amy Scaife of Transition Leytonstone who asked herself: What if the plans for the thriving future became widely available? […]
