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First Nations Celebrate Win Against Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion
First Nations Celebrate Win Against Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Here’s how indigenous leaders pulled together a grassroots movement to resist the pipeline expansion. A Federal Court of Appeal on Thursday struck down the Canadian government’s approval of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion, halting construction of the 1,150-kilometer project indefinitely. The expansion would […]
The Tip of the Radiation Disaster Iceberg
The Tip of the Radiation Disaster Iceberg Photo Source Surian Soosay | CC BY 2.0 The World Nuclear Association says its goal is “to increase global support for nuclear energy” and it repeatedly claims on its website: “There have only been three major accidents across 16,000 cumulative reactor-years of operation in 32 countries.” The WNA […]
The Link Between Minimalism and Permaculture
THE LINK BETWEEN MINIMALISM & PERMACULTURE There is an inherent link between permaculture and minimalism, so it’s no wonder why people are finding ways to combine the two ways of living into one super-philosophy. Both minimalism and permaculture hinge on utilizing highly efficient systems to make room for the important things in life: interconnectedness, abundance, […]
Batteries, mine production, lithium and the “cobalt crunch”
Batteries, mine production, lithium and the “cobalt crunch” Growth in Li-ion batteries depends on a number of imponderables, such as how rapidly the world converts to electric vehicles, how quickly battery manufacturing capacity can be ramped up and where the electricity to power millions of EVs will come from. This post ignores these issues, concentrating […]
Workers’ Power vs. Climate Destroyers: What It Will Take to Save the Planet
Workers’ Power vs. Climate Destroyers: What It Will Take to Save the Planet Humanity faces a multi-faceted crisis. Endless wars of imperial aggression, both overt and covert– from Iraq, Syria, Libya and Afghanistan to Yemen, Palestine and Central and South America. These conflagrations compel those at the bottom of the economic pyramid to fight and die […]
Human Predators, Human Prey: Part 2
Human Predators, Human Prey: Part 2 Society as Ecosystem in a Time of Collapse, Part II For Part I of this essay see here. 4. Our current context: the adaptive cycle, conservation, and release As we’ve seen, predator-prey relationships shape the flow of energy through ecosystems. But what happens in either a natural ecosystem or […]
A Sufficiency Vision for an Ecologically Constrained World
A SUFFICIENCY VISION FOR AN ECOLOGICALLY CONSTRAINED WORLD Owing to the limits of eco-efficiency and the need to liberate environmental space for the global poor, new policy instruments should be designed to bring about ecological fair sharing between countries and a new economy based on the concept of sufficiency. EU economic policies should pursue an […]
Congo: Ebola “Bungle in the Jungle” a Planned Mishap
Congo: Ebola “Bungle in the Jungle” a Planned Mishap Malthusian theory holds that depopulation (or zero population growth) is a necessity to control a species (namely humanity) that reproduces and consumes natural resources without limits. This is a “New Age” mantra adopted early on by Communists as far back as Marx and Lenin. The ball […]
Seawalls for oil refineries and other ironies of climate change adaptation
Seawalls for oil refineries and other ironies of climate change adaptation A friend of mine includes a saying with each of his emails that goes like this: “It shouldn’t be easier to imagine the end of civilization than the end of air conditioning.” But in most depictions of the end of civilization at the cinema […]
NOAA Issues Geomagnetic Storm Warning: “A Crack Opened In Earth’s Magnetic Field & Plasma Started Pouring In”
NOAA Issues Geomagnetic Storm Warning: “A Crack Opened In Earth’s Magnetic Field & Plasma Started Pouring In” According to NOAA Space Weather forecasters, a powerful G3-class geomagnetic storm is in progress on August 26th as Earth passes through the wake of a coronal mass ejection (CME) that arrived with little notice approximately 24 hours ago. Strong […]
The 1.5 Generation
Grist / Amelia Bates The 1.5 Generation My generation is radically remaking climate activism. Will it be enough? My generation, the millennials, will never know a time when climate change wasn’t a grave threat. Back in 1988, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere crossed the 350 parts per million level when I was still watching Sesame […]
Disruptive Markets–What Sustainability Really Means For Business
Disruptive Markets–What Sustainability Really Means For Business Many look around at today’s crises – climate change spinning out of control, inequality driving political instability and our oceans filling with plastic – and despair at the prospects for serious change. Most then try to apportion blame or at least seek to understand why. Business blames consumers. […]
Ebola Deaths In DRC Spike 21% In Four Days, Bordering Countries On High Alert
Ebola Deaths In DRC Spike 21% In Four Days, Bordering Countries On High Alert The latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DNC) has claimed 67 lives, up from 55, according to Robert Redfield, director of the CDC. On Friday the WHO said that the virus has spread to an area of “high […]
Greenhouse Hothouse Firehouse
Greenhouse Hothouse Firehouse A scientific paper recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) is getting a lot of attention. Written in the dry style of systems analysis—and throughout the text referring to the planet as the ‘Earth System’, it nevertheless brilliantly manages to present the looming dangers of extreme climate […]
Extreme Flash Floods Hit Hawaii As Dangerous Hurricane Lane Could Dump “30-40 Inches Of Rain”
Extreme Flash Floods Hit Hawaii As Dangerous Hurricane Lane Could Dump “30-40 Inches Of Rain” Dangerous Hurricane Lane is moving toward the main Hawaiian islands as a powerful Category 3 storm Friday. The hurricane could hit the isolated volcanic archipelago in the Central Pacific within 24 hours, and unleash torrential rain that may produce destructive flash […]
