climate… Climate Scientist Jason Box: “Yeah, the shit that’s going down has been testing my ability to block it.” 13 Jul 201523 Jul 2015 I find it impressive that an article like this was posted in a mainstream magazine like Esquire. I especially like their web address that went with the article, which includes…
Culture Change… KSR: The question is… 16 Dec 201418 Dec 2014 Kim Stanley Robinson is one of my favorite science fiction writers. His works include some of the better collapsitarian novels, The Wild Shore, Pacific Edge and Forty Signs of Rain, plus…
disasters… The living wind stilled 25 Aug 201424 Jun 2014 One hundred years ago, the once mighty species Ectopistes migratorius lost its final survivor. Alone in the Cincinnati Zoo, on 1 September 1914, Martha was found dead at the bottom of her…
climate… In these times of change… 26 Jun 2014 A fascinating new piece, Want to Change the World? Read This First by Richard Heinberg was published on Resilience.org. He moves through important ideas from anthropologist Marvin Harris's cultural materialism…
Culture Change… The Population Problem 5 Nov 2013 Long-time population maven Paul Ehrlich just published a post called Overpopulation and the Collapse of Civilization on the blog for the Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB). "Food…
climate… Warmer climate strongly affects human conflict and violence worldwide, says study 13 Aug 201313 Aug 2013 In case you didn't get the memo that climate change is probably the most important, and almost certainly the largest human rights issue facing us today. If you want to…
Culture Change… …and I feel fine… 21 Dec 20122 Mar 2013 Happy Solstice 2012! While the Mayans have plans for coming years, this is prophesied to be a major time of transitions. Others are calling this U-Day, a day of global…
Culture Change… Pitchapalooza! « The Imagined Worlds of Michelle Yvonne Merrill 1 Aug 2011 Pitchapalooza! « The Imagined Worlds of Michelle Yvonne Merrill. A bit about the pitch for my latest fiction idea. I'm developing a young adult novel for a couple of strategic…
climate… Twelve year old Severn Suzuki speaking at the UN Earth Summit (1992) « Critical Docs 20 Jul 201120 Jul 2011 Came across this on a kind-of wikiwalk... just... wow. It's still mostly in "Litany" mode, but I think this is getting at what I meant by the way the stories…
climate… Bill McKibben’s Extreme Weather Oped 5 Jul 2011 Powerful Video of Bill McKibben's Extreme Weather Oped. Can we definitively say that any one "freak" record-breaking event was caused by the increased concentrations of carbon in the atmosphere? No.…
