China on Nukes - Build Baby Build!

SUBHEAD: Fukushima has put nuclear power on the radar for a populace that was previously focused on enjoying its benefits.By Kari Huus on 24 March 2011 for MSNBC -(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42219006/ns/world_news-asiapacific/#)Image above: Qinshan nuclear power plant starts expansion near Hangzhou Bay, Zhejiang Province in 2008. Two reactors operational by 2014. From (http://www.china.org.cn/

Why cheap energy Is a bad thing

SUBHEAD: Drive down oil consumption with higher taxes. Stretch out limited supply for best purposes.By Jean Laherrère on 9 March 2011 in The Nation - (http://www.thenation.com/video/159001/jean-laherrere-why-cheap-energy-bad-thing)Image above: A 2004pink Hummer H1 turbodiesel 4wd at the beach. From (http://news-cars-en.blogspot.com/2011/01/hummer-h1.html).In this tenth video in the series “Peak

Interview with Ellen LaConte

SUBHEAD: Eco-economies are local and regional, place-based, functionally self-reliant, interdependent, mutually supportive, regenerative, restorative and resilient.By Robert Jensen on 8 March 2011 in Energy Bulletin - (http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-03-08/listening-life-it%E2%80%99s-too-late-interview-ellen-laconte)Image above: "Mother Earth" by Stephen Alcorn (2005). From (http:/

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?

No Modern "Steady State"

SUBHEAD: A system without fossil fuels and without debt is the world of 1750 with fewer than one billion people.By Gail Tverberg on 21 February 2011 in Our Infinite World - (http://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/02/21/there-is-no-steady-state-economy-except-at-a-very-basic-level/#more-1301)Image above: Home economy crafts in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia circa 1750. From (http://

Geopolitics Rule

SUBHEAD: We must reinvent democracy in a way that embraces the concept of less at at all levels.By Steve Ludlum on 21 February 2011 in Economic Undertow -(http://economic-undertow.blogspot.com/2011/02/geopolitics-rule.html)Image above: "Until Libya is Free" photo. From original article.One of the big ideas here at the Undertow is that the economic price limit or upper bound for crude oil is a

Overcoming Systems Stupidity

SUBHEAD: Systems thinking would make it impossible to continue pretending that Americans can go on living their current lifestyles much longer.By John Michael Greer on 2 February 2011 in The Archdruid Report - (http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2011/02/overcoming-systems-stupidity.html)Image above: Night traffic in Las Vegas, Nevada. From (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pbo31/2191506873/).

The Tyranny of Entitlement

SUBHEAD: The only way to stop advocates of perpetual-growth is to make it so they have no other choice.By Derrick Jensen on 6 January 2011 in Orion Magazine - (http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6052//http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6052)Image above: Domestic abuse not unlike our treatment of the ecosystem. From (http://www.schlissellawfirm.com/blog/

What Does a Better Economy Look Like?

SUBHEAD: A book review - "Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet". And, can we have it?By George Mobus on 16 December 2010 in Question Everything -(http://questioneverything.typepad.com/question_everything/2010/12/what-does-a-better-economy-look-like.html)Image above: Woodworking shop of Andrew Lunn where he makes custom saws. From (http://woodtalkonline.com/blog/35/entry-721-

Unrestrained capitalism will fail

SUBHEAD: Collapse inevitably happens when false gods are worshipped. Unrestrained capitalism is a delusional idea.Image above: The Invisible Hand of the Future meets the BP oil spill. From (http://www.credoaction.com/comics/2010/06/invisible-hand-of-the-free-market-man).By Michael Byron on 19 October 2010 in OpEdNews - (http://www.opednews.com/articles/