Culture Change… A New Wrinkle in Our Time: Transforming the Oil Economy 11 May 2020 I've written before about how precarious the fossil fuel industry has actually been for many years now. A friend sent this brilliant summary of the recent oil price crash, and…
climate… Energy Return on Investment 1 May 20161 May 2016 What every schoolkid (and investor) should know, and why it is time for fossil fuel divestment. Energy Return on Investment (EROI) is easy to understand: how much energy do you…
climate… In the red again 20 Aug 201421 Aug 2014 As a species, we're into deficit spending for the year on the stuff that really matters, the stuff that keeps us going. Yesterday was estimated to be Earth Overshoot Day 2014: the day…
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… Peak Oil and Transportation Alternatives 12 Feb 201212 Feb 2012 I'm a bike commuter. I've said it and I'm proud. Earthstonstation has a new post about why single-occupancy cars are such a bad idea for the future, with some important…
disasters… “My bet is on the hairless monkey.” 29 May 201129 May 2011 From the Center for Pattern Literacy (Permaculture visionary and Gaia's Garden author Toby Hemenway's site) comes this refreshingly sober and calm blog entry on the realities of Peak Oil: Apocalypse, Not | Pattern…
disasters… Embracing the Anthropocene 25 May 201125 May 2011 Embracing the Anthropocene - NYTimes.com. An important look at our capacity to change our home planet, and how we choose to think about it. Revkin's thoughtful comments include: Earth is…
disasters… This Earth Week: Taking America Back From the Polluters — Green For All 20 Apr 201111 May 2020 This Earth Week: Taking America Back From the Polluters — Green For All. Excerpts from a stirring speech by Green for All's CEO Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins on the 1 year anniversary…
money culture Taxing Issues 15 Apr 20118 Aug 2011 This was originally posted on my old Apegrrl blog here: 5/14/03 Taxing Issues. It seemed fitting to repost, just in time for Tax Day. It's unedited, save for the removal or…
money culture The Money Culture, Part 3 14 Jan 201114 Jan 2011 "We are at the point in history where the infinite growth paradigm collides with something that is more powerful than money is..." - Michael Ruppert, Collapse (2009 movie) The more-powerful…
Ponderings of a Perplexed Primate 