4 days ago

The Guardian Our need for a greener, life-enhancing economic model should make us seek answers in the unlikeliest of placesPerhaps it was when investigators realised that a mortgage had been given to an "M Mouse" that the depth of the banking crisis became apparent. Throwing money that didn't really exist, at cartoon characters that wer (Read More)

4 days ago

Submitted by Lostmoya from Google Reader: I decided to write another rather basic level article because there are so many people I meet who have heard a bit about the oil situation, and it is hard to point to one single article to give an overview of some of the current issues. Regular readers will find many repeats of graphs. There are some new ones, as well, from (Read More)

4 days ago

Submitted by Lostmoya from Google Reader: A week or so ago, I came across a podcast of a keynote that Bill Rees gave at the Resilient Cities conference in Vancouver last month.  Bill Rees is a significant figure in the world of ecology not least because he originated the term ‘ecological footprint’ and co-invented the method by which it’s calculated.It’s not often (Read More)

4 days ago

The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future I decided to write another rather basic level article because there are so many people I meet who have heard a bit about the oil situation, and it is hard to point to one single article to give an overview of some of the current issues. Regular readers will find many repeats of graphs. There are some new ones, as well, from (Read More)

Oct 28, 2009

Boing Boing Tim says: "Governator Arnold hides a colorful response in a carefully worded veto." Schwarzenegger's press secretary, Aaron McLear, insisted Tuesday it was simply a "weird coincidence." Can a statistician gives us the odds of this happening, please? Did Schwarzenegger drop 4-letter bomb in veto? . (Read More)

Oct 14, 2009

Environment | guardian.co.uk Earth Alert: A Photographic Response To Climate Change . (Read More)

Oct 10, 2009

mashable Beware: a Facebook poke could land you behind bars. Just ask Shannon D. Jackson of Hendersonville, Tennessee, who faces that very real possibility.Jackson was arrested and transported to Sumner County Jail on September 25th with a bond set at $1,500 after she violated an order of protection by allegedly poking a woman on F (Read More)

Oct 04, 2009

Submitted by Lostmoya from Google Reader: To mention money and metaphysics in the same sentence, as I did at the close of last week’s post, is to invite any number of misunderstandings. The hoary habit of thinking that walls off philosophical questions in a ghetto of abstractions apart from the world of ordinary life gets in the way of clarity here as so often, bu (Read More)

Aug 27, 2009

Submitted by Lostmoya from Google Reader: This post is a guest post by Morgan Downey. Morgan is author of the book ‘Oil 101’. Exactly one hundred and fifty years ago, on August 27, 1859, the first commercial oil well in the US began producing. The subsequent petroleum bounty has enabled and defined modern civilization. This post is a status update in honor of the (Read More)

Aug 19, 2009

Submitted by Lostmoya from Google Reader: According to a new study from social media solutions provider Rapleaf, the most popular Twitter client is the web. After looking at the 20 most recent tweets from over 4 million Twitter users, it was clear that that updating your status online via Twitter.com is still the dominant way that most people use Twitter with 65% o (Read More)

Sep 03, 2009

The Guardian As one devastating drought follows another, the future is bleak for millions in east Africa. John Vidal reports from Moyale, KenyaWe met Isaac and Abdi, Alima and Muslima last week in the bone-dry, stony land close to the Ethiopia-Kenya border. They were with five nomad families who have watched all their animals die of sta (Read More)

Sep 02, 2009

Boing Boing The Sweet Juniper blog has a gallery of abandoned Detroit houses that are being overcome by the foliage around them, trees and shrubs and plants growing around, on and in them. Feral Houses(via Neatorama)Update: Crap, this is a duplicate. Ah, c'est la vie. Enjoy it again, for the first time.Previously:Haunting photo-essay o (Read More)

Aug 29, 2009

Submitted by Lostmoya from Google Reader: The recent debate between George Monbiot and Paul Kingsnorth over whether we actually can save the world seems mostly to have degenerated into sound and fury, which is rather a problem, since the larger question of whether climate change is stoppable, whether we can avoid having billions of people die, seems, well rather a (Read More)

Aug 27, 2009

The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future This is a guest post by Kevin Rietmann, aka The Dude, on The Oil Drum. The post is a response to Tuesdays NYTimes Op-ed by political scientist Michael Lynch, showing some historical track records between some 'peak oilers' and Lynch and others.Energy analyst Michael C. Lynch's op-ed piece ‘Peak Oil’ Is a Waste of Energy, pu (Read More)

Aug 27, 2009

News from THE Where I sit is getting awkward these days. I find myself caught in the middle of an increasingly acrimonious debate between faculty and administrators as financial pressures are creating a perfect storm around the allocation of teaching... [extracted from From where I sit - Between a rock and a hard place via feedly] . (Read More)

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