Human ecology & behaviour

The other side of gainful unemployment: the downsides of doing it all

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2012-06-01

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/hayes-image2.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="100" /></span>“Today, I will do one thing at a time.” These are the words I’ve been saying to myself each morning lately as I leap from my bed...</p>

The Rumbling of Distant Thunder

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2012-05-30

<p>After well over a decade of peak oil events, it may come as a surprise to see one break new ground. Still, last weekend's "Age of Limits" conference managed that, by focusing steadfastly on what happens when current efforts to evade the limits to growth inevitably fail -- and in the process, it allowed a glimpse at certain unexpected realities in and around the peak oil movement.

Values and the next generation

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2012-05-30

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/Rio_Kasser_Figure1.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="66" /></span>...perhaps the next generation will work to coordinate and jointly design interventions, communications, and campaigns that discourage values such as money, image, and status and that

Real Homes: Small, frugal, and green

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Tue, 2012-05-29

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/image_large_7.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="73" /></span>It’s a perfect time to take a look at what it means to own a home, to make a home, to rent a home.

Oil addiction generates denial

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Sat, 2012-05-26

<p>Whenever the U.S. supply of imported oil is threatened with interruption (or if the U.S. economy should recover much), the global marketplace bids up the oil price, and the politically sensitive price of gasoline will rise in step and depress consumer spending. Whenever the world oil price is high enough, it can cause an economic crisis.

Post-Carbon Postcard#1: California, USA and British Columbia, Canada

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2012-05-25

<p>Contrary to the views of some ill-informed journalists and politicians, there are many places where the international momentum is swinging rapidly towards -- not away from -- a swift transition to a post-carbon economy.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-05-25/post-carbon-postcard1-california-usa-and-british-columbia-canada">read more</a></p>

Agriculture & artifice - May 22

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Tue, 2012-05-22

<p>- The Chelsea flower show is nature for the 1%<br />
- Randers: “Don’t teach your children to love the wilderness”. Discuss<br />
- Don’t Put Monsanto in Charge of Ending Hunger in Africa<br />
- The power of bread: let us eat politics<br />
- Kenyan TV show ploughs lone furrow in battle to improve rural livelihoods</p>

The great chemical reaction: life and death of Gaia

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Mon, 2012-05-21

<p><b>CaSoO<sub>3</sub> + CO<sub>2</sub> -&gt; CaCO<sub>3</sub> + SiO<sub>2</sub></b></p>

Conceptualizing post-capitalist economics

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2012-05-18

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/SacredEconomicsFrontCover3-200x300.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="67" height="100" /></span>Sacred Economics: Money, Gift and Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein is a well-researched discussion of the history of money, capitalist economics

My town in Transition (transcription)

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Thu, 2012-05-17

<p>My role in Transition started in 2005 when a friend and myself started showing some films about peak oil, about the idea that we are reaching the end of an age of cheap energy and all that that has made possible.

Deep thought - May 17

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Thu, 2012-05-17

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/IMG_5310.thumbnail.JPG" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="75" /></span>-The Barcode moment, Part 1<br>-Learning To Love A Wounded World<br>-It's all right</p>

The commons law project: A vision of green governance

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Thu, 2012-05-17

<p>For the past two years or more, I’ve been working on a major research and writing project to try to recover from the mists of history the bits and pieces of what might be called “commons law” (not to be confused with common law).

The twilight of protest

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2012-05-16

<p>It's become common to see activists rejecting, often with quite a bit of heat, the suggestion that they might want to embrace in their own lives the changes they hope to get the rest of the world to adopt.

When the experiment fails

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2012-05-16

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/dragonfly_white-200x261.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="77" height="100" /></span>Celebrating Failure is perhaps the least understood ingredient in the book. Because we live in a culture of success.

Environment - May 16

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Tue, 2012-05-15

<p>- WWF Report: Consumption of Earth's resources unsustainable<br />
- Monthly Review: Marx’s ecology and the understanding of land cover change<br />
- New report from Club of Rome warns about humanity’s ability to survive without a major change in direction<br />
- The Big Fix: documentary exposes BP, U.S. Gov't on Gulf disaster/Interview: the Tickells, filmmakers