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Japan crisis

After the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, now the shaken nation is facing nuclear emergency. Read all of our coverage on the situation in Japan with analysis of the lessons that this tragedy may hold for a world desperately in need of clean, safe energy in the face of climate change and peak oil.

When disaster strikes: looting or love?

By Erik Curren | June 28, 2011

Lyttelton, NZ earthquake cleanup

"A powerful riposte to those who argue that in difficult times people become more selfish and turn on each other.  Beautiful," says Rob Hopkins about a video from a New Zealand town recently leveled by an earthquake with a plucky community spirit. It makes dramatic TV to see angry mobs brandishing Glocks, busting store windows and pushing shopping carts full of bottled … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: community gardens, disaster, earthquakes, Japan crisis, New Zealand

Nukes are forever

By Lindsay Curren | June 8, 2011

Into Eternity

For all the tragic and mind-boggling downsides to the recent Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, one silver lining emerges from that dark cloud: At least we're talking with some degree of seriousness about the substantial dangers in so-called "clean" nuclear energy. Waste not, want not A recent film out of Finland, Into Eternity by Danish director Michael Madsen (not to be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Films, Reviews Tagged With: Finland, Japan crisis, Michael Madsen, nuclear power, nuclear waste, Onkalo

Earthquake: A Reflection

By Staff Reports | May 26, 2011

Japan Prayer

Earthquakes are not unusual in Yokohama, Japan or in Tokyo. If fact, a big one has been predicted for years and people in the area have been living with the knowledge that a very big one could hit the area anytime. All Japanese are aware of that, including myself, but who would have thought that we’d experience it? Rocking my world It happened when I was visiting my mother in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Spirit Tagged With: apocalypse, Christianity, Japan crisis

Like Japan, let’s junk new nukes

By Staff Reports | May 12, 2011

No Nukes

Japan will build no new nuclear reactors. Their decision delivers a huge body blow to the global nuclear industry, and could mark a major turning point in the future of energy. As Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said about his country, We need to start from scratch… and do more to promote renewables. Wind power alone could---and now probably will---replace 40 nukes in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: activism, harvey wasserman, Japan crisis, nuclear power

A different kind of supply-side economics

By Lindsay Curren | April 8, 2011

Japan Toyota Dealership

In the wake of the devastating Japanese earthquake and tsunami, an instructive story is unfolding about the manifold vulnerabilities of the modern industrial world. Robin Young of the radio show "Here and Now" reported yesterday on the too-often overlooked phenomenon of industrial supply lines. Her guest, Jeffrey Karrenbauer, a supply-chain expert with Insight Inc., said … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: community organizing, Japan crisis, manufacturing, peak oil, relocalization, Transition

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