The Local Food Revolution

SUBHEAD: A revolution aimed at rebuilding food security and food sovereignty for all.By Michael Brownlee on 24 March 2011 in Boulder Weekly - (http://www.boulderweekly.com/article-4806-id-like-to-see-a-study-on-the-relative-cost-for-t.html)Image above: Boulder Belt Farm share. From (http://www.localharvest.org/blog/330/entry/boulder_belt_farm_share_inititiative16).Boulder, Colorado -Anyone living

Why Growth Won’t Return - Water

SUBHEAD: Users of water, and uses of water, compete for access to dwindling supplies.By Richard Heinberg on 4 March 2011 in Post Carbon Institute - (http://www.postcarbon.org/article/269759-earth-s-limits-why-growth-won-t-return)Image above: water jugs are lined up for 6 hour wait at pump in Abu Shouk camp in Darfur. From (http://postconflict.unep.ch/sudanreport/sudan_website/index_photos_2.php?

Interviewed by a Climate Zombie

SUBHEAD: The questions provide a glimpse into why we need Gaia University as an alternative to what currently passes for higher education.By Albert Bates on 26 February 2011 in The Great Change -(http://peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2011/02/interview-with-climate-zombie.html)Image above: College girl as a zombie. From (http://www.teefury.com/people/18670/Nerdbaitplus3/)."For the most part, those

Climate Change Is Priority #1

SUBHEAD: The carbon in our atmosphere threatens global food production and may render the Earth uninhabitable.By Bill McKibben on 16 February 2011 in The Nation -(http://www.thenation.com/video/158009/bill-mckibben-why-climate-change-most-urgent-challenge-we-face)Image above: Detail of painting "Mother Earth" by Jeness Cortez Perlmutter. From (http://www.americanmeditation.org/mother_earth.htm).

Extinction Event?

SUBHEAD: We worshiped at the heavenly altar of economic growth, and triggered hell on Earth.By Guy McPherson on 7 February 2011 in Nature Bats Last(http://guymcpherson.com/2011/02/extinction-event)Image above: From (http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/arctic/circulation.html).The Arctic is defrosting as warm Atlantic waters rush through the Fram Strait instead of skirting the southern coast of

ABC's solid Climate Change story

SUBHEAD: The forecast is looking more and more extreme!By Brian Merchant on 14 January 2011 for TreeHugger - (http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/01/abc-runs-good-story-climate-change-video.php)Image above: Still frame from opening of video below.Wha? What's this? A well-researched, well-rounded, entirely accurate story on climate change run in the mainstream media? In prime time, on a major

Peak Oil and a Changing Climate

SUBHEAD: In this video scientists, researchers and writers explain what will happen when the world's supply of oil starts to runs out.By staff on 5 January 2011 in The Nation - (http://www.thenation.com/article/157434/peak-oil-and-changing-climate)Image above: The banner ad over the masthead of this article by the Nation. Somebody has to pay the bills around here.The scientific community has long

Oh Brother, Not Peak Oil!

SUBHEAD: We are being asked to go eyes-wide-open into the greatest new experiment in living most of us have ever encountered.By Lindsay Curren on 29 December 2010 in Transition Voice -(http://transitionvoice.com/2010/12/oh-brother-not-peak-oil)Image above: Still image from Coen Brothers 2000 movie "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?". From (http://www.movietobo.com/2010/10/08/jons-top-10-

Time of the US Demagogues

SUBHEAD: Demagogues profess an answer for the restoration of the prosperity that is the American birthright.By Tom Whipple on 22 December 2010 in Fall Church News-Press - (http://www.fcnp.com/commentary/national/8087-the-peak-oil-crisis-the-time-of-the-demagogues.html)Image above: Sarah Palin delivers lecture at Glnn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally. From (http://www.upi.com/News_Photos/gallery/

Mexican Climate Miracle

SUBHEAD: I watched in awe as the US negotiator, Todd Stern, was whoopingly cheered by the entire assembly.By Albert Bates on 11 December 2010 in The Great Change -(http://peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2010/12/cancun-miracle.html)Image above: US negotiator Todd Stern at Cancun press briefing. From (http://www.rechargenews.com/business_area/politics/article238870.ece).What a difference a few hours can

Cancúnhagen

SUBHEAD: A warming of 4 degrees and higher by mid-century will sink many Island nations, dissolve coral reefs and extinguish countless species, perhaps even our own.By Albert Bates on 10 December 2010 in The Great Change - (http://peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2010/12/cancunhagen.html)“We are beginning to wonder if we will survive the negotiations themselves. We must keep the process afloat.” —

Can Cancún Can-Do?

SUBHEAD: When we talk about climate change we are really talking about changing everything.By Albert Bates on 4 December 2010 in The Great Change - (http://peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2010/12/can-cancun-can-do.html)Image above: Hotels at the tip of the Cancun peninsula melting into the Gulf of Mexico. From (http://blog.earth-touch.com/nature-news/sunny-with-a-chance-of-runaway-climate-change/)."Our

The Road to Nowhere

SUBHEAD: Only by terminating the world’s industrial economy is there any hope for the future of our own species.Image above: Firestorm on 10/25/03 in San Bernardino, CA burned several hundred homes. From (http://www.wildlandfire.com/pics/grprix/grandprix.htm).By Guy McPherson on 1 December 2010 in Transition Voice - (http://transitionvoice.com/2010/12/the-road-to-nowhere)When I wrote about the

COPS16 First Day

SUBHEAD: Opening day coverage of the Cancún 16th Climate Conference of Parties Summit (COPS16).Image above: Pool at the Moon Palace Hotel in Cancun, Mexico. Host facility of COP16. From (http://www.flickr.com/photos/39712788@N00/293996042).By Albert Bates on 30 November 2010 in The Great Change -(http://peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2010/11/cimientos-de-cancun.html)Cancún, México, November 30.

Clearing the air in Cancun

SUBHEAD: We need to get politicians to change their minds because we can’t change the laws of physics.Image above: Logo for the current climate summit meeting in Mexico. By Richard Levangie on 29 November 2010 for Triple Pundit - (http://www.triplepundit.com/2010/11/clearing-air-cancun-climate-summit/comment-page-1/) As COP-16 begins in Cancun, Mexico, world leaders need to understand that

Rise of the Climate Hawks

SUBHEAD: Some people are becoming climate activists outside of being environmentalists... like the US military.Image above: Wildlife photograph of hawk by Warren Price. From (http://www.warrenpricephotography.com/2008/11/19/wildlife-photography-a-captive-audience).By Brian Merchant on 26 October 2010 for TreeHugger.org - (http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/10/