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Hope from the margins
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Hope from the margins

These notes offer a quick glance to ways, in the south of Mexico, in which people are regenerating the society from the bottom up. It is a new kind of revolution without leaders or vanguards, which goes beyond development and globalization. It is about displacing the economy from the center of social life, reclaiming a [...]

Published by on May 22, 2013 5:06 AM
Shale gas, tight oil, and fracking
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Shale gas, tight oil, and fracking

Click on the headline (link) for the full text. Analysis: At margins of shale oil boom, a tempered euphoriaKristen Hays and Jonathan Leff, Reuters For the past three years, the boom in the U.S. shale oil industry has outstripped all expectations. Production surged far faster than any forecasts; drillers raced to secure space in new [...]

Published by on May 21, 2013 3:05 PM
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So Much Wasted Energy

This is the final part of our serialization of Chapter 4 (Energy) from the latest Resilience guide, “Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable Secure Food Systems“. This installment shows the big problem we have with waste, but also suggests that this is an area where we can all wade in.  Like everything else [...]

Published by on May 21, 2013 1:05 AM
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Deep thought

Click on the headline (link) for the full text.Some of My Best Friends Are GermsMichael Pollan, The New York Times I can tell you the exact date that I began to think of myself in the first-person plural — as a superorganism, that is, rather than a plain old individual human being. It happened on [...]

Published by on May 20, 2013 11:05 AM
Global property markets: Boom and gloom
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Global property markets: Boom and gloom

STOCKMARKETS around the world have been stimulated by ultra-loose monetary policy. The response of property markets—the biggest asset class of all—has varied. Whereas the housing boom before the financial crisis was remarkable for its global reach, the recovery after the bust is patchy. Among the 18 countries shown in the table, prices have risen over [...]

Published by on May 20, 2013 3:05 AM
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Will the International Energy Agency’s oil forecast be wrong again?

The famous Danish physicist Niels Bohr once humorously observed, “Predictions are very difficult, especially about the future.” And so, as the world considers yet another rosy oil supply forecast, this time from the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA), it is worth reviewing the agency’s record. Back in the year 2000, the IEA divined that by [...]

Published by on May 19, 2013 9:05 PM
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Will the International Energy Agency’s oil forecast be wrong again?

The famous Danish physicist Niels Bohr once humorously observed, “Predictions are very difficult, especially about the future.” And so, as the world considers yet another rosy oil supply forecast, this time from the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA), it is worth reviewing the agency’s record. Back in the year 2000, the IEA divined that by [...]

Published by on May 19, 2013 9:05 PM
Free exchange: The humble hero
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Free exchange: The humble hero

THE humble shipping container is a powerful antidote to economic pessimism and fears of slowing innovation. Although only a simple metal box, it has transformed global trade. In fact, new research suggests that the container has been more of a driver of globalisation than all trade agreements in the past 50 years taken together. Containerisation [...]

Published by on May 19, 2013 3:04 PM
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Don’t Trust Your Stone Age Brain: It’s Unsustainable

Our brains haven’t evolved to consider the long-term consequences of behaviour that brings short-term rewards. Patrick van IJzendoorn Cognitive dissonance is that uncomfortable feeling we have when we know we should invest in solar panels but the 46″ wide screen TV wins out; we know we should catch the bus but we take the car [...]

Published by on May 19, 2013 7:03 AM
‘Follow the Money’: How Rainforest Action Network Is Beating the Corporate Giants
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‘Follow the Money’: How Rainforest Action Network Is Beating the Corporate Giants

We’ve arrived at a dangerous milestone. For the first time in human history, as Amy Goodman reported this week, “the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has topped 400 parts per million.” Climate scientiststs have warned that we should seek to stabilize emissions no higher that 350 ppm if we hope to fend [...]

Published by on May 19, 2013 7:03 AM
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