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#26: Nonpartisan but NOT apolitical

By Staff Reports | December 6, 2011

Reason 26

Big Oil, Big Coal and Big Nuclear rule American energy policy along with an even larger posse of corporate plutocrats who exercise far too much influence inside the Beltway. None of them seem inclined to give up their hold on Washington. Nor are they troubled by operating free from accountability to the American people. Their henchmen in Congress appear unbothered by this, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 31 Reasons to Support Transition Voice, communication, energy policy, global warming, nuclear power

Calloused but not broken: Walking Away From Empire

By Staff Reports | September 28, 2011

Feet

Guy McPherson’s latest gift, Walking Away From Empire: A Personal Journey, is a necessary tonic, or more aptly perhaps, a high colonic, for those who have ears but refuse to hear the story of climate change and its pervasive affect on the life of man and the world. This collection of essays proclaims loudly, and occasionally with raw emotion, that it's time we took off our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Reviews Tagged With: apocalypse, climate change, dystopia, global climate disruption, global warming, Guy McPherson, James Hansen

Why you can’t fight climate change without peak oil

By Erik Curren | July 25, 2011

Requiem for a Species cover

Publishers of books on climate change seem to be competing to ratchet up the doom factor in their titles. Pretty soon you can expect to see "Dr Kevorkian's Rx to Save Yourself from Climate Hell" or "Praying for Pol Pot: Genocide May Be the Only Answer." The title Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change helped draw me to Australian activist Clive … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Climate Tagged With: climate change, Clive Hamilton, consumer behavior, economic growth, futurology, global warming, Max Weber, Robert Hirsch

Mindfulness in the midst of chaos

By Staff Reports | January 14, 2011

Dalai Lama Graffiti.

At the time of Buddha Shakyamuni, 2,500 years ago, the early Buddhist community that gathered around him was  highly sustainable, ecologically aware, and self-consciously so. In many ways it can be seen as a perfect model of how to live contentedly with very little and in harmony with nature. The monks and nuns recycled cast-aside rags to make robes. They ate with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Spirit Tagged With: activism, Buddhism, climate change, global climate disruption, global warming, Jan 2011, peak oil, pollution, vegetarian

Tune in, turn off, hang up

By Staff Reports | December 1, 2010

Bill McKibben wants Obama to save the world through solar panels.

In 1988, as an eighth grader in Mr. Cedric A. S. Paine’s Introductory to Physical Science class, I tried to create the greenhouse effect in a two-liter Coke bottle. It kind of worked, but more importantly, the project made a powerful impact on me that remains to this day. In 1989, a writer from the Adirondacks published The End of Nature. It was the first book for a popular … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: Bill McKibben, clean energy, conservation, Dec 2010, DIY, global warming, homesteading, Jimmy Carter, michelle obama, renewable energy, solar power

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