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The Positive Power of Emergencies
The Positive Power of Emergencies Seth Klein discusses his new book on tackling the climate crisis like we’ve fought wars — and now the pandemic. Called to the new fight. ‘What seemed politically impossible… can be quickly embraced,’ says Seth Klein, author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency, which will be published […]
Easy Ways to Increase the Available Minerals in Your Food
Image by author Kate Martignier Easy Ways to Increase the Available Minerals in Your Food Assuming you’re eating the healthiest plant foods, grown in the healthiest soils, that you can find or afford, what else can you do to increase your mineral intake without using pills? In the first article in this series we discussed the relative […]
The Coal Curse – A Review
The Coal Curse – A Review Governments are abrogating their first responsibility, which is to safeguard the people and their future well-being. The first part of historian Judith Brett’s Quarterly Essay, The Coal Curse – Resources, Climate and Australia’s Future, is a masterly dissection of Australian economic history since WW2. Credit – Unsplash It brings […]
How Low Flows Due to Irrigation are Destroying Oregon’s Deschutes River
How Low Flows Due to Irrigation are Destroying Oregon’s Deschutes River The majority of water removed from the Deschutes is used to grow irrigated pasture and hay for livestock not crops consumed directly by humans. Photo by George Wuerthner The recent article “Low Flows On Deschutes” highlights why irrigation is a significant threat to our […]
California Wildfires Cover 1 Million Acres In A Week As Storms Expected To Fan Flames
California Wildfires Cover 1 Million Acres In A Week As Storms Expected To Fan Flames In the course of just one week, wildfires blazing across the state of California have burned through nearly one million acres statewide, destroying hundreds of homes ahead of an expected storm system heading toward the state that could bring more […]
Sunspot Could Send Solar Flares Toward Earth That May Disrupt the Power Grid
SUNSPOT COULD SEND SOLAR FLARES TOWARD EARTH THAT MAY DISRUPT THE POWER GRID A massive sunspot on the surface of the sun has the potential to shoot solar flares toward Earth, and this particular sunspot is one of concern. A solar flare could disrupt the power grid and take down some radio communications. A massive […]
Double Tropical Trouble Brewing For US Gulf Coast
Double Tropical Trouble Brewing For US Gulf Coast The National Hurricane Center’s (NHC) latest update (Saturday morning) on two tropical storms swirling in the Gulf of Mexico, with crosshairs both pointed at the Gulf Coast of the US, is that both storms are set to strengthen through the weekend. Readers may recall, Tropical Depression 13 (upgraded to Tropical […]
Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline Inches Forward, But Opposition Intensifies
Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline Inches Forward, But Opposition Intensifies Late one night this past April, four people on off-road vehicles drove into a small, Indigenous village near the town of Blue River in British Columbia, Canada. It was dark and the vehicles drove through deep snow, smashing through wooden signs and barriers that guarded the […]
Values and goals: Can we intervene to reduce materialism?
Values and goals: Can we intervene to reduce materialism? In order to live well within the earth’s limits we need to prioritise ways of living that enable us to have more fun with less stuff. This will inevitably require an end to the pursuit of ever more material possessions as a means of acquiring ‘the […]
Whatever Happened to the Green New Deal?
Whatever Happened to the Green New Deal? The Green New Deal was the signature issue of the Green Party in the 2010s. Howie Hawkins was the first US candidate to campaign for a Green New Deal in 2010 running for New York governor. The Green Party’s presidential candidate in 2012 and 2016, Jill Stein, made […]
The Atlantic Basin Is “About To Come Alive”
The Atlantic Basin Is “About To Come Alive” Michael Ventrice, an atmospheric scientist at The Weather Company, tweeted Monday morning, “there’s risk for a hurricane to track towards the Gulf of Mexico in 7-10 days.” Readers may recall the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season has been extremely busy, with eleven storms so far, and the risk of two more […]
What Kind of a World do We Want? (…really?)
What Kind of a World do We Want? (…really?) Although this question is both enduring and familiar, its present urgency is fully accentuated in a typically brilliant, but viscerally terrifying, exposition by Noam Chomsky on the current frangible condition of the world, and its near-term prognosis. However, I am also reminded of the strapline from the International Permaculture […]
Is the pandemic causing an exodus from big cities?
Is the pandemic causing an exodus from big cities? Thomas Homer-Dixon, the Canadian student of complex systems and author of The Upside of Down, wrote in his 2006 book that “September 11 and Katrina won’t be the last time we walk out of our cities.” Today, many big-city dwellers appear to be seeking refuge in less […]
Rolling Blackouts, Prolonged Heatwave, And ‘Fire-nados’ Sends California To The Brink
Rolling Blackouts, Prolonged Heatwave, And ‘Fire-nados’ Sends California To The Brink Californians flocked to beaches, recreation areas, and lakes this past weekend to seek relief from one of the most extreme heat waves in a generation, straining the state’s power grid to the brink of collapse, reported Bloomberg. The heatwave brought triple-digit temperatures to […]
