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‘Cosmo-Localization’: Can Thinking Globally and Producing Locally Really Save Our Planet?
‘COSMO-LOCALIZATION’: CAN THINKING GLOBALLY AND PRODUCING LOCALLY REALLY SAVE OUR PLANET? Fablabs, makerspaces, emerging global knowledge commons… These are but some of the outcomes of a growing movement that champions globally-sourced designs for local economic activity. Its core idea is simple: local ownership of the means to produce basic manufactures and services can change our […]
Inefficient productivity or productive inefficiency?
Inefficient productivity or productive inefficiency? New research demonstrates – again – how deceptive the concepts of productivity and efficiency are in agriculture. Huge increases in labor productivity and modest increases in land productivity are gained by a massive increase of use of external resources, while natural capital is depleted. Is that efficient? There is a […]
A Proposal for a United Nations Framework Convention on Population Growth
A Proposal for a United Nations Framework Convention on Population Growth The United Nations Meeting Room by Keith Burns | Flickr | CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Introduction Recently, an international assembly of scientists from 184 countries endorsed an article published in the journal Bioscience entitled “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice”. As the warning states, “We […]
Constructing Hope: A Discussion of “Green Earth”
Constructing Hope: A Discussion of “Green Earth” Neither hope nor its cousin joy are to be confused with optimism. The latter tends to be more a quality of temperament than a realistic assessment of prospects. As for the former, well, you have to go looking for them, or even, laboriously, construct them for yourself, at […]
Climate Strange
Climate Strange The eco-obsessed often get labeled as weirdos — even by their peers. Weird, however, is looking better and better. Alec Mitchell doesn’t like praise for what he’s doing. Not for loaning out reusable coffee mugs at farmers markets, nor running a compost collection service on a bike, nor renting out dishware at events […]
EPA Division That Studies the Health Risks of Toxic Chemicals is in a Fight For Its Life–Against the EPA
Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images EPA DIVISION THAT STUDIES THE HEALTH RISKS OF TOXIC CHEMICALS IS IN A FIGHT FOR ITS LIFE — AGAINST THE EPA A SMALL BUT vitally important program within the Environmental Protection Agency is in a fight for its life. The Integrated Risk Information System, or IRIS, is the only division of […]
NASA Admits Pole Shift is Close: Here’s What You Can Do to Prepare
NASA Admits Pole Shift is Close: Here’s What You Can Do to Prepare With all of the horrific weather anomalies, and the increase in earthquakes and volcanoes over the past six months…pronouncing themselves especially just in the past week…there is a cause for concern. In the article, “Earth’s Magnetic Poles Show Signs They’re About to Flip […]
“One Typhoon Away From Full Breach” – US Nuke-Test Dome Leaking Fatal Radiation Into Pacific Ocean
“One Typhoon Away From Full Breach” – US Nuke-Test Dome Leaking Fatal Radiation Into Pacific Ocean Before the 1970s, the United States and other nuclear-armed countries conducted more than 500 atomic weapons tests in the atmosphere. During these tests, radioactive debris and gases were flung up into the atmosphere and traveled around the world. The Centers […]
Earth’s Poles Show Signs Of FLIPPING: Widespread Grid Failures Imminent
Earth’s Poles Show Signs Of FLIPPING: Widespread Grid Failures Imminent Scientists from the University of Colorado in Boulder are sounding the alarm that the Earth’s magnetic poles are showing signs of reversing. Although the pole reversal, in and of itself, isn’t unprecedented, the solar winds that would take out the power grid and make parts […]
Gasoline–Such a Big Bang for the Buck
Gasoline–Such a Big Bang for the Buck Are you a fan of beheadings? Are you fond of autocratic regimes? Do you want to help those kooky, lovable Koch brothers purchase another member of Congress? Do you yearn to support Saudi Arabia, Iran, Donald Trump, and Vladimir Putin, but it seems so difficult to give them […]
Megadams Not Clean or Green, Says Expert
Megadams Not Clean or Green, Says Expert Forty years of research show hydro dams create environmental damage, says David Schindler. ‘When you add the emissions from building and producing materials for a dam, as well as the emissions from clearing forests and moving earth, the greenhouse gas production from hydro is expected to be about […]
How a U.S. Company is Suing Canada for Rejecting Quarry in Endangered Whale Nursery
How a U.S. Company is Suing Canada for Rejecting Quarry in Endangered Whale Nursery When a Canadian federal-provincial environmental review panel ruled in 2007 that a proposed quarry would go against community core values and would threaten right whales and other marine life in the Bay of Fundy, groups that had fought against the project […]
