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Why the Arctic Sea Ice Matters to All Complex Life on the Planet
Why the Arctic Sea Ice Matters to All Complex Life on the Planet “President Niinistö in North Russia: ‘If We Lose the Arctic, We Lose the World’” Clearly we have lost the Arctic as one of our major planetary thermostats. Myself, Beryl Sirmacek, John Doyle and Arctic Oceanographer Jim Massa discuss the unravelling in the Arctic and […]
Thinking about Establishing a Home Permaculture Garden in 2022? 6 Key Benefits You Shouldn’t Overlook
Photo by Beth Macdonald on Unsplash Thinking about Establishing a Home Permaculture Garden in 2022? 6 Key Benefits You Shouldn’t Overlook Have you ever wondered why humans have to invest so much time and energy into growing plants that grow all by themselves in nature? Permaculture gardening may be the answer. Permaculture is a style of agriculture that aims to […]
1st Jan 2022 Today’s Round-Up of Climate News
1st Jan 2022 Today’s Round-Up of Climate News Facebook Twitter “Snow and ash over Colorado: Devastated owners of the nearly 1,000 homes razed to the ground by December wildfires survey the damage… “Colorado Governor Jared Polis declared a state of emergency on Thursday, calling the wildfires a ‘disaster in fast-motion’… Tens of thousands were ordered to […]
A review of three books: Futuresteading, The Good Life and Costa’s World
A review of three books: Futuresteading, The Good Life and Costa’s World It’s not often I comment on the constant flow of new books about green lifestyle, growing and wellbeing but three recently released titles had me thinking about the issue of communicating the good news to inspire and motivate people to adopt and adapt […]
Massive Snowstorm To Ring In New Year For Millions Of Americans
Massive Snowstorm To Ring In New Year For Millions Of Americans AccuWeather meteorologists say that millions of Americans will be ringing in the new year with a massive winter storm that is expected to blanket the Midwest and parts of the Northeast with as much as 18 inches of snow. As of 0900 ET, winter storm […]
E.O. Wilson’s lifelong passion for ants helped him teach humans about how to live sustainably with nature
E.O. Wilson’s lifelong passion for ants helped him teach humans about how to live sustainably with nature E. O. Wilson was an extraordinary scholar in every sense of the word. Back in the 1980s, Milton Stetson, the chair of the biology department at the University of Delaware, told me that a scientist who makes a […]
Texas Inspects Power Plants Ahead Of Freeze Warning
Texas Inspects Power Plants Ahead Of Freeze Warning A cold snap is headed for Texas after New Year’s Eve. The state’s grid operator conducted inspections of mandatory winterization efforts at power plants to avoid repeating last winter’s devastating blackouts. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) completed inspections at 300 electric generation units, representing 85% of the megawatt-hours lost […]
New England is an Energy Crisis Waiting to Happen
New England is an Energy Crisis Waiting to Happen “A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.” – Carl Reiner At its core, the human body is a symphony of chemical reactions. The complexities and interdependencies of the molecular machinery that makes our bodies function are almost too […]
Vaclav Smil: ‘Growth must end. Our economist friends don’t seem to realise that’
Vaclav Smil: ‘Growth must end. Our economist friends don’t seem to realise that’ The scientist and author on his latest book – an epic, multidisciplinary analysis of growth – and why humanity’s endless expansion must stop. Vaclav Smil is a distinguished professor emeritus in the faculty of environment at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. […]
“Tornadic Supercells” Possible In South As Storms Intensify
“Tornadic Supercells” Possible In South As Storms Intensify Northern portions of Alabama and Mississippi and parts of Tennessee are at risk of tornadoes, damaging hail, and high winds on Wednesday afternoon and evening, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). A tornado watch has been issued for Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee until late Wednesday […]
Here’s How the Energy Crisis Turns Into Hunger and Then… War?
Here’s How the Energy Crisis Turns Into Hunger and Then… War? We have previously warned about a whopping food crisis and supply problems in the fertilizer market. Well, now is worse because that was BEFORE we had the natural gas crisis. Why is that important? Natural gas is THE critical input into making fertilizer. Urea […]
Blueprints for impossible futures
Blueprints for impossible futures “A People’s Green New Deal” demands a different kind of impossible Over the past two decades, a proliferation of “Green New Deal” literature has promoted various strategies for changing the structure of the global energy system to combat climate change. While the term was first coined by the neoliberal economist Thomas Friedman, […]
Putting Post Growth Theory Into Practice
Putting Post Growth Theory Into Practice The Post Growth Entrepreneurship Incubator helps founders break free from traditional business models and implement sustainable non-extractive practices. Annie Spratt via Unsplash Melanie Rieback is the founder of the Post Growth Entrepreneurship (PGE) Incubator, Nonprofit Ventures, as well as her own successful post growth business, Radically Open Security (ROS). We sat down with […]
Tim Merges the Worst Climate News in History with Epic Images
Tim Merges the Worst Climate News in History with Epic Images “Climate change is one of a host of environmental ills for which technological solutions are being proposed. In fact, most of the proposed solutions exacerbate environmental ills in other dimensions such as species loss and mass extinction. This tendency of technological reasoning to ‘bleed’ from […]
