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6 of the Most Sustainable Meat Alternatives
6 of the Most Sustainable Meat Alternatives After the coronavirus spread through a number of slaughterhouses in Germany and the United States, some people might be asking themselves how they can replace meat in their diets. Perhaps they’re worried that meat production could collapse if facilities are in lockdown. Or maybe ethical reasons are their main concern. […]
Understanding Our Pandemic – Economy Predicament
Understanding Our Pandemic – Economy Predicament The world’s number one problem today is that the world’s population is too large for its resource base. Some people have called this situation overshoot. The world economy is ripe for a major change, such as the current pandemic, to bring the situation into balance. The change doesn’t necessarily come from […]
What does COVID-19 mean for sustainable consumption?
What does COVID-19 mean for sustainable consumption? Our priorities shift when the wolf is at the door, Iona Murphy writes about the impact of the current crisis. It’s quite understandable that people may not have the headspace for sustainability right now. Nonetheless, we’re currently on a hiatus from consumerism—will it last? Back in the beginning […]
New Zealand Deprioritizes Growth, Improves Health and Wellbeing
New Zealand Deprioritizes Growth, Improves Health and Wellbeing Last May, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern released a budget to improve the “wellbeing” of its citizens rather than focusing on productivity and GDP growth. And not so coincidentally, New Zealand has one of the best coronavirus outcomes of any democracy in the world. Perhaps this […]
Don’t Bet on a Vaccine
Don’t Bet on a Vaccine If we get one, great. But here’s why we can’t count on it and what that means. Every day politicians promise eventual relief from the threat of COVID-19 with a vaccine. An unprecedented scientific race to develop more than 100 of them is now underway. But don’t roll up your […]
The lockdown air-freshener?
The lockdown air-freshener? The Covid-19 pandemic has cleared the city streets. But who foresaw that it would dramatically clean the urban air? One unexpected consequence of the global response to the coronavirus pandemic has been the extraordinary reduction in urban air pollution in cities where the majority of the population have been required to stay […]
Second Wave? China Orders ‘Partial Lockdown’ Of Border City; Seoul’s Newest Cluster Explodes To 120 Cases: Live Updates
Second Wave? China Orders ‘Partial Lockdown’ Of Border City; Seoul’s Newest Cluster Explodes To 120 Cases: Live Updates Summary: VW ‘pauses’ manufacturing of VW Golf, SUVs China imposes ‘partial lockdown’ on northeastern border city SK’s ‘Itaewon’ cluster climbs to 120 Germany, Austria agree to reopen mutual border Global cases: 4.22 million Global deaths: 291,519 Poland […]
Pandemic, Lockdowns, Fake and Manipulated Markets – Gold and Silver Outlook
Pandemic, Lockdowns, Fake and Manipulated Markets – Gold and Silver Outlook Watch Video Update (Live 12/05/2020 ◆ The massive global debt driven “Everything Bubble” is bursting due to the pandemic and more specifically the governments draconian economic lockdowns◆ A dollar crisis is inevitable with U.S. government debt surging by some $2 trillion in a matter of weeks […]
Small deaths and the real death: how humans are failing
Small deaths and the real death: how humans are failing Guest post by Federico TabelliniThis article was originally published last year on the Italian blog ‘Effetto Cassandra’. I repropose it here because I think the coronavirus crisis has made it somehow more relevant. The current situation raises new questions: is this new crisis just another ‘small death’ […]
Why Does The Mainstream Media Seem So Desperate To Keep The Coronavirus Lockdowns Going?
Why Does The Mainstream Media Seem So Desperate To Keep The Coronavirus Lockdowns Going? Something doesn’t smell right. The number of newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. each day has been declining, as has the number of deaths. This is great news, and we should be hoping that the falling numbers are a […]
Permaculture Alternatives to Waste-to-Energy (W2E)
Permaculture Alternatives to Waste-to-Energy (W2E) Waste-to-energy (W2E), particularly incineration, is being promoted as a good alternative to landfills – it gets rid of all that plastic we use and generate energy, right? In this article I’d like to first outline what’s wrong with W2E and then talk about permaculture alternatives. So What Is Wrong With […]
Review of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System
Review of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System Introduction This review is a critique of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System by Ian Angus. The review adopted a multi-theoretical framework that combines insights from socio-cognitive terminology theory (STT), legitimation code theory (LCT) and critical discourse […]
False Solutions to Climate Change: Real Solutions
False Solutions to Climate Change: Real Solutions Editorial Note: This is Part 6 of Mary Wildfire’s series on false solutions to climate change. You can read Part 1 on Electricity here, Part 2 on Transportation here, Part 3 on Agriculture here, Part 4 on Buildings here. and Part 5 on Geoengineering here. It’s become increasingly clear that climate change is not only real […]
Fourth Turning Accelerating Towards Climax
FOURTH TURNING ACCELERATING TOWARDS CLIMAX “At some point, America’s short-term Crisis psychology will catch up to the long-term post-Unraveling fundamentals. This might result in a Great Devaluation, a severe drop in the market price of most financial and real assets. This devaluation could be a short but horrific panic, a free-falling price in a market […]
This Energy Analyst Says the Oil Sands Are ‘Done’
This Energy Analyst Says the Oil Sands Are ‘Done’ COVID-19 is making many bearish about bitumen. Deborah Lawrence’s past pessimism has proven unpopular, and correct. Deborah Lawrence used to be a stockbroker with Merrill Lynch. Over the past decade, the independent economic analyst has developed a reputation for telling oil investors what they don’t want […]
