May 4, 2008
We Can Survive, but Can We Communicate?
We Can Survive, but Can We Communicate? By Carolyn Baker and Sally Erickson of Speaking Truth To Power [As promised in my last article "Peak Civilization And The Winter Of Our Disconnect", my colleague and friend, Sally Erickson and I are offering what we believe are vitally...
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April 24, 2008
Peak Civilization and the Winter of Our Disconnect
Peak Civilization and the Winter of Our Disconnect By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana~ The appearance of springtime in North America may be...
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April 23, 2008
Recipe for Catastrophe: Climate, Fuel, and Food
Recipe for Catastrophe: Climate, Fuel, and Food Food riots turn deadly in Haiti. Food riots fear after rice price hits a high. And so it starts. Globally there has been roughly a 25% increase in food prices. In some areas - such as Haiti - food...
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April 22, 2008
Negotiable or not, the American Way of Life must be extinguished...
Negotiable or not, the American Way of Life must be extinguished... By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner (As inspired by a conversation with Derrick Jensen) "There's got to be just more to it than this; Or tell me why do we exist?" -Iron Maiden We in the Western "developed" nations,...
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March 26, 2008
World Made By Hand: Not Just Another Book Review
World Made By Hand: Not Just Another Book Review By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power A review of the 2008 novel by James Howard Kunstler (Atlantic Monthly Press) "The world has become such a wicked place," she said quietly, just a statement of fact "There's goodness here...
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March 20, 2008
A 98 Year-Old Teaches Me About "The Great Work"
A 98 Year-Old Teaches Me About "The Great Work" By: Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power I am part of the rainforest protecting myself. I am that part of the rainforest recently emerged into thinking. ~ John Seed Recently while visiting Vermont, one of my friends there suggested...
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March 6, 2008
Personal Survival in a World Gone Mad
Personal Survival in a World Gone Mad Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power Reviews "Path Through Infinity's Rainbow: Your Guide To Personal Survival and Spiritual Transformation In A World Gone Mad" by Mike Byron. We must leave the old left/right, liberal/conservative paradigm behind us. Smaller government...
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February 28, 2008
Eugene Oregon: Community and Personal Collapse Preparation. Part 2
Eugene Oregon: Community and Personal Collapse Preparation. Part 2 By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power CB: Thank you Dan for that fascinating and comprehensive analysis. Now bringing all of this closer to home, what kinds of preparations have you personally been making in recent years for Peak...
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February 22, 2008
Eugene Oregon: Community and Personal Collapse Preparation. Part 1
Eugene Oregon: Community and Personal Collapse Preparation. Part 1 By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power This is the first part of Carolyn Baker's exclusive interview with Dan Armstrong, writer, activist, and owner of MUD CITY PRESS. CB: I'm going to ask you about your book "Prairie Fire",...
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February 21, 2008
Review: The Final Empire - Part 2
Review: The Final Empire - Part 2 Part 2 of the review of the new book by William Kotke by Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power We are proposing to create no less than a completely new human culture that relates to the earth in a...
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February 7, 2008
Review: The Final Empire - Part 1
Review: The Final Empire - Part 1 A review of the new book by William Kotke by Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power My intention in reviewing this stunning book is to share how it has illumined my understanding that collapse and vision are not separate,...
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February 3, 2008
Who Wins, Oil or Arctic?
Who Wins, Oil or Arctic? Whether to open the Chukchi Sea to exploratory oil drilling now rests in the hands Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne. He plans on opening 20 million acres of the Chukchi Sea for leasing on February 6, 2008. The Chukchi...
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January 30, 2008
Population and Intensive Crop Culture Are Unsustainable
Population and Intensive Crop Culture Are Unsustainable By Peter Salonius. Originally published on The Relocalization Network A growing number of media commentators, such as Allen Greer in The Australian, John Gray in the Guardian's Observer and Alan Weisman in his book 'The World Without Us', have begun...
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January 21, 2008
The Shell Game: The End of Oil, The Next 9/11, and The End Of Civilization
The Shell Game: The End of Oil, The Next 9/11, and The End Of Civilization A review of the new book by Steve Alten by Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power With a doctorate in Sports Administration from Temple University, unhappy in his job, and struggling to support a family, Steve Alten wanted to...
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January 17, 2008
Transforming Communities Through Locally-Grown Food
Transforming Communities Through Locally-Grown Food By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power Carolyn interviews Greg Cox, owner of Boardman Hill Farms, West Rutland, Vermont and is President of the Board of Rutland Area Farm and Food Links (RAFFL). After many months of trying to...
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January 12, 2008
The Year of the Bear: Reflections on the Daunting Challenges of 2008
The Year of the Bear: Reflections on the Daunting Challenges of 2008 By Carla Royal republished from Speaking Truth to Power On New Year's Eve I went to a friend's house. A few of us gathered in the middle of the afternoon to bring in the New Year with quiet contemplation, ritual,...
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January 5, 2008
Oil Increases Hit More than Gasoline Prices
Oil Increases Hit More than Gasoline Prices Once again, oil prices are "surging," and once again the primary discussion focuses on the cost of gasoline. While the price of gasoline is the most direct visible aspect for individuals, it is certainly not the only one. Increasing fuel...
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December 24, 2007
Lies, Injustice and the Capitalist Way: We're on the Highway to Hell--Don't Stop Us!
Lies, Injustice and the Capitalist Way: We're on the Highway to Hell--Don't Stop Us! By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner "We are riding alongside Angus and Malcolm Young on the 'Highway to Hell.'" We "Free World" capitalistic Westerners are a loathsome lot--or to put it more crudely, we suck. When one considers how...
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December 6, 2007
Automotive Alternative
Automotive Alternative Here is a new development that is worthy of note. The video discusses a four cylinder engine that runs on air. http://youtube.com/watch?v=QmqpGZv0YT4...
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December 5, 2007
Redefining 'Positive':Collapse from Beyond the Human-Centric Perspective
Redefining 'Positive':Collapse from Beyond the Human-Centric Perspective By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power This article is an excerpt from Carolyn's forthcoming book The Spirituality Of Collapse: Restoring Life On A Dying Planet. If we do not soon remember ourselves to our sensuous surroundings, if we...
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November 30, 2007
A Diary of the Onset of the Greater Depression
A Diary of the Onset of the Greater Depression By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power Carolyn Baker Reviews Danny Schechter's e-book SQUEEZED (Click on link to Download) For more years than I can count I've heard Danny Schechter's name bandied about in progressive circles, but for all...
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November 27, 2007
Moral Primitivism Anyone? A Satirical Examination of an Apologia for Industrialized Torture
Moral Primitivism Anyone? A Satirical Examination of an Apologia for Industrialized Torture By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner "Again, if PETA is putting something out, I will always have my doubts - they see things one way and one way only. Theirs. In many ways the activists in this country are...
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November 21, 2007
Black Friday:Why this one is especially dark
Black Friday:Why this one is especially dark By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power A few moments ago I posted on my site the MSNBC version of "The Coming Consumer Crunch" which forecasts severe and painful belt-tightening for American families in 2008. Then when I checked...
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November 19, 2007
Compare the Democratic Candidates on Global Warming
Compare the Democratic Candidates on Global Warming Living on Earth and Grist and Grist sponsored a Democratic candidate forum in Los Angeles on Global Warming and America's Energy Future. Only Kucinich, Edwards, and Clinton bothered to show up - which dramatically narrows the candidate field for me....
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Middle Class Angst: The Politics of Lemmings
Middle Class Angst: The Politics of Lemmings By Stan Goff writing for Speaking Truth to Power Suburbia is also a spiritual wasteland, a place where the wonder of nature is desecrated ubiquitously with corporate logos and all the artifacts of late technological society. There is a common...
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November 18, 2007
Oil and Climate
Oil and Climate By Marilyse Crise de l'énergie et changements climatiques, La fortune et la famine, La Fontaine, 18 novembre 2007 Energy crisis and climate change, wealth and famine, La Fontaine, November 18th, 2007...
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November 7, 2007
Xylitol Poisonous For Dogs
Xylitol Poisonous For Dogs This is for the dog lovers and the dog people in your life. Xylitol, a sweetener increasingly used in chewing gum, candy, cookies, and even toothpaste, is potentially fatal to dogs. While humans process only a small percentage of xylitol,...
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November 4, 2007
The Switch Has Been Flipped: It's Too Late for Solutions
The Switch Has Been Flipped: It's Too Late for Solutions By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power This past week I attended another screening of "What A Way To Go: Life At The End Of Empire". My intention was not to see the documentary yet again-perhaps for the fifteenth...
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November 3, 2007
Our Masters, Ourselves
Our Masters, Ourselves By Dale Allen Pfeiffer of The Mountain Sentinel Those of us living in the US live in a fascist system, right now, today. We live in a system where powerful corporations call the shots, both nationally and globally. They do...
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October 25, 2007
California and Disaster Accountability Project
California and Disaster Accountability Project Southern California continues to burn and more than 500,000 people have been evacuated. This will be a disaster long after the fires are out. While the diaster response seems to be improved over Katrina, there are likely issues that need...
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October 21, 2007
Stop Calling Me A "Doomer"
Stop Calling Me A "Doomer" By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power People must first be made to give up on the existing system before they will become receptive to fundamental change. ~ Michael Byron, Ph.D. Author of Infinity's Rainbow: The Politics of Energy,...
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October 4, 2007
My Journey to Sustainability
My Journey to Sustainability By Tom Nielsen I had an "aha" moment the other day. I was reading an interview of a couple with an organic farm who use draft horses instead of tractors. They were asked what other alternative energy sources they use....
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September 30, 2007
The Crash is a Good Thing?
The Crash is a Good Thing? By Dale Allen Pfeiffer of The Mountain Sentinel Since Bernanke cut interest rates last Tuesday (Sept. 25th), the already weak dollar has gone into a tail spin. Bernanke's banker friends complained that they did not have enough money to cover...
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September 16, 2007
Very Bloody Oil
Very Bloody Oil Many people have been saying that the invasion (and occupation) of Iraq is about oil. I believe that there is more than oil involved, but certainly oil was a driving motivator. Now we can add Alan Greenspan to the list...
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Collapse Happens: Exploring Options
Collapse Happens: Exploring Options By: Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power People come to us to learn about designing and building their own homes, understanding off-grid power systems, composting toilets and grey-water systems, on-farm slaughtering, bio-dynamic practices, spiritual gardening, dowsing, forest management, grazing...
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September 9, 2007
"Shocking" Changes in Greenland.
"Shocking" Changes in Greenland. on September 7th, I wrote about the arctic melt. More specifically, the concern is regarding the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. What scientists now believe is that condition of the Greenland ice sheet has been pivotal in dramatic climatic...
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September 8, 2007
The Joyride That Was The American Empire
The Joyride That Was The American Empire By: Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth To Power A review of Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future From Four Impending Catastrophes, By Michael J. Panzner Sooner or later, everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. --Robert Louis Stevenson-- A few...
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September 7, 2007
Arctic going, going
Arctic going, going The news from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is that we just lost another 50 years in the global warming catastrophe. The melt is accelerating beyond any projections, and the current amount of CO2 in the atmosphere will...
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August 30, 2007
Greensumption
Greensumption The International Forum on Globalization has released a short video on the false solution of going "green" while maintaining or increasing consumption. It does an excellent job of addressing a number of myths. At YouTube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ft5SSIfmeKU...
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August 15, 2007
Two Legs Good, Four Legs Equal
Two Legs Good, Four Legs Equal "The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and benificence of God manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals is a...
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August 13, 2007
The Social Effects of Peak Oil
The Social Effects of Peak Oil Last summer I was interviewed by Janaia Donaldson of Peak Moment TV. Peak Moment is a weekly community television program which explores the issues and solutions of a "changing energy future." Janaia and Robyn took a tour last year to...
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August 9, 2007
Great Video Resource Site
Great Video Resource Site I don't know whether you have run across FreeDocumentaries.org in your web travels, but it is a boon to those of us who are into political films by independent producers. The good folks at Free Documentaries believe that information is...
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August 7, 2007
When Collapse is No Longer Science Fiction: Choosing Hospice Work Instead of Hope
When Collapse is No Longer Science Fiction: Choosing Hospice Work Instead of Hope By: Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power By owning the truth and all of its distressing emotions, we empower ourselves beyond our wildest dreams. Within the past month, America has witnessed two dramatic events which have illumined the devastating...
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August 3, 2007
Review: Escape from Suburbia
Review: Escape from Suburbia By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power The 2004 documentary, "End Of Suburbia", produced and edited by Barry Silverthorn and written and directed by Greg Greene, was a stunning and chilling cinematic landmark which placed the issue of Peak...
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July 29, 2007
Building Circles of Community: "Lone Rangers" Cannot Survive Collapse
Building Circles of Community: "Lone Rangers" Cannot Survive Collapse By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth To Power The inexorable reality is that any community that does not process feelings and build trust by doing so...is NOT, I repeat, NOT sustainable....
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July 11, 2007
What to Do? Taking Action In The Face Of Collapse
What to Do? Taking Action In The Face Of Collapse By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power Every time I write an article on collapse such as my most recent one "Happy Independence Day; You Have No Government", I am bombarded with emails asking me "what should I do?"...
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July 7, 2007
Live Earth Access
Live Earth Access If you don't have access to the Sundance Channel and the Live Earth Concerts, you can watch it live at liveearth.msn.com. The site also has access to the videos shown during the concert. There are also links to a number...
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June 28, 2007
Mcmansions, SUVs, Mega-Churches and the Baghdad Embassy: Life Among Dim and Brutal Giants
Mcmansions, SUVs, Mega-Churches and the Baghdad Embassy: Life Among Dim and Brutal Giants In microcosmic mimicry of the plight of the besieged middle and laboring classes, my parent's Atlanta neighborhood, as is the case with many others in the vicinity, is being destroyed, in reality -- disappeared -- by a blight of upper-class...
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June 6, 2007
Gas Prices Could Go Up - Way Up
Gas Prices Could Go Up - Way Up Hold onto your hats folks. Gas prices could skyrocket shortly due to cyclone Gonu which is hitting Oman and heading into Gulf of Oman. This could have a significant effect on oil fields, production facilities and shipping. There is an...
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May 31, 2007
Just Say 'No!' to Coal
Just Say 'No!' to Coal There needs to be a call to action. Big Coal (like Peabody Energy Company aka Peabody Coal Company) is pushing hard to get us (via the government) to make massive investments in coal, and coal to liquid fuel legislation. The...
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May 29, 2007
A salty future? Everglades restoration is key to state's survival
A salty future? Everglades restoration is key to state's survival By Alan Farago Originally published in the Orlando Sentinel Image courtesy of Jeff's Weather Blog If you can see through the smoke of forest fires, consider the experiment of putting 18 million people, plus visitors, on a narrow peninsula --...
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Annals of Stupidity: The Demise of Alexander Cockburn
Annals of Stupidity: The Demise of Alexander Cockburn By Gerald Rellick Cross-posted at Thomas Paine's Corner, CJO's Avenger and Uncommon Thought Journal There is no shortage of political pundits now wading into the discussion of global warming, despite the scientific complexity of the field. One of the...
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May 28, 2007
Benjamin Franklin Needs to Rescue America Again
Benjamin Franklin Needs to Rescue America Again By Randy White of Lawns to Gardens Do you ever just want to grab life by the back of the neck and tell it YOU are in control? That's how I feel after just reading the story of Benjamin Franklin...
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May 26, 2007
Rethinking Revolution: Animal Liberation, Human Liberation, and the Future of the Left
Rethinking Revolution: Animal Liberation, Human Liberation, and the Future of the Left By: Steven Best originally published at Cyrano's Journal "Animal liberation may sound more like a parody of other liberation movements than a serious objective." --Peter Singer "Animal liberation is the ultimate freedom movement, the `final frontier.'" --Robin Webb, British ALF...
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May 25, 2007
Toxic Love
Toxic Love Hexxus (Tim Curry) sings Toxic Love Or available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PLQ1XfaTuU>/a> Thanks to Ed for sending this along....
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May 23, 2007
Portlanders! The Chainsaws Are Coming. Act!
Portlanders! The Chainsaws Are Coming. Act! The Port of Portland is preparing to cut down 225 trees during nesting season. This information and action alert from the Audubon Society. The Port of Portland is currently in the process of cutting down 225 trees along Airport Way...
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May 21, 2007
New Life - On Its Way Out
New Life - On Its Way Out (Image courtesy of James Dragesic of the Australian Gvt. Antarctic Division) It was reported that scientists have found more than 700 new species of sea life in the Antarctic. Hailed as a "treasure trove," the species were found by...
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May 15, 2007
The Spoiled Brat Rebellion
The Spoiled Brat Rebellion I truly do fear for this country, and for the world. Since the turn of the century, two countries have been invaded and ravaged in dubious or wholly illegal wars. Several other countries have been made to bleed or allowed...
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May 13, 2007
The Consequences of a Globalized, Industrialized Food Supply
The Consequences of a Globalized, Industrialized Food Supply The United States has seen the chickens coming home to roost regarding the consequences of a globalized and industrialized food supply. The issue arose in relationship to animal feed. It started with a recall of dog and cat food because...
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May 6, 2007
Arctic Melt Underestimated
Arctic Melt Underestimated According to a new study released by the National Snow and Ice Data Center, the climate change models have significantly underestimated the amount of arctic melting that occurred from 1953 - 2006. The estimates had been based on a melt...
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May 5, 2007
Of Surges and Purges
Of Surges and Purges I share with many of you a growing sense of anger and frustration at the constantly worsening situation in Iraq. Now, the "surge" is in place, and "gated communities" are being delineated over the objections of both Shia and Sunni...
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May 1, 2007
Energy Depletion and Immigration
Energy Depletion and Immigration Our Congress has produced a draconian new immigration bill that would attempt to close US borders and severely oppress immigrants—particularly illegal immigrants—within this country. These efforts have resulted in a new civil rights movement, which has grown virtually overnight to...
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April 27, 2007
Eating Fossil Fuels
Eating Fossil Fuels Republished from my article at Mountain Sentinel Introduction Human beings (like all other animals) draw their energy from the food they eat. Until the last century all of the food energy available on this planet was derived from the sun...
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April 25, 2007
Food Contamination - A Much Larger Set of Problems
Food Contamination - A Much Larger Set of Problems Just as the Dubai Ports World fiasco (1, 2, 3) brought to public attention that the US has ceded control of our ports to international corporate control, the pet food contamination has brought to the fore problems with globalization, our...
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April 24, 2007
Politicians Making Fools of Us All - Ethanol
Politicians Making Fools of Us All - Ethanol By: John Chuckman Ethanol has always been a poor choice as a fuel, but the scientific and economic considerations behind that statement don't stop politicians from claiming otherwise....
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April 20, 2007
Pet Food Debacle Is Getting Even Bigger
Pet Food Debacle Is Getting Even Bigger While it has not been added to the US list of problematic ingredients, there was an article today from South Africa of renal failure in dogs and cats due to melamine in corn gluten. While the food was processed in...
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April 15, 2007
Energy Outlooks: The Decline & Fall of Practically Everything
Energy Outlooks: The Decline & Fall of Practically Everything In this short paper, we will attempt an overview of our energy outlook, globally, and in particular with regard to North America. We will concentrate on major reserve energy sources - that is, energy sources of which the Earth has...
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April 13, 2007
Conspiracy: If you are not in one, you need to start one
Conspiracy: If you are not in one, you need to start one BY: Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power This past weekend I received a call from two friends who with their three children are facing foreclosure on their home. For the past three years I have been warning them about...
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April 7, 2007
The Ahhh... of symptomatic relief!
The Ahhh... of symptomatic relief! Designing the world.... Another view of the current super-fad of 'sustainable design' is that it's a lovely idea, but really misguided in the worst way. For people who care about the earth it just *feels* so good though, so how...
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April 5, 2007
Radical Noesis Wins "Best Topical Blog"
Radical Noesis Wins "Best Topical Blog" The Radical Noesis team has been selected as The Best Topical Blog for the Northwest Progressive Institute's 2006 David Neiwert Awards. I am very proud of what out team of writers are doing collectively here at Radical Noesis, and individually...
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April 4, 2007
Dead Seas Still have Tides
Dead Seas Still have Tides Last week I took a break and went with family over to the Oregon coast. It was an almost perfect day for the end of March - low 60s with sun and haze and almost no wind. The tide was...
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March 31, 2007
Connecting the Dots between Energy Depletion and the War on Terror
Connecting the Dots between Energy Depletion and the War on Terror In the first months after 9-11, I said the terrorist attacks were being used as an excuse to stage an oil coup and establish an oil empire. I stated this in December of 2001, in the article The Background is...
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March 19, 2007
Are Labor Unions Terrorists?
Are Labor Unions Terrorists? By Dale Allen Pfeiffer of Mountain Sentinel Two recent news stories, taken together, could signal an ominous turn in the invasion of Iraq. The first story appeared on the Time website on February 28th.1 It discusses Iraqi opposition to government...
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March 15, 2007
Overshoot Global Warming Into An Ice Age?
Overshoot Global Warming Into An Ice Age? In 2004 I wrote an article Environmental collapse - sooner not later. In that article, I discussed the Pentagon's scenario (as discussed by David Stipp) that we could find ourselves in the middle of a rapid onset ice age. I...
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March 8, 2007
We Need To Get Real About the Planet
We Need To Get Real About the Planet Every day there is more bad news about climate change and global warming gases. It seems that the more we hear about it the more we pollute. U.S. emissions are projected to increase, and China is passing the U.S. as...
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February 25, 2007
Of Blood Oil and Lies
Of Blood Oil and Lies The idea is that, although Bush was wrong to get us into this war, we are there and we cannot simply pull our troops out. If we do so, then Iraq will collapse into civil war and Iran could very...
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January 21, 2007
Draft of Portland Peak Oil Recommendations Released for Public Comment
Draft of Portland Peak Oil Recommendations Released for Public Comment After months of research and work, the Portland Peak Oil Task Force has released the draft of its findings and recommendations for public review and comment....
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January 16, 2007
Why we’re all mostly out of the loop
Why we’re all mostly out of the loop By: Phil Henshaw From early childhood we’ve all experienced consternation with being shut out of the conversation, say defining circles of friends, that would have been very important to us to feel part of. There are even exclusive story loops...
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January 14, 2007
What do you tell a tree?
What do you tell a tree? By: Phil Henshaw A great old oak that’s been the center of it’s neighborhood for decades, home to wild life and children’s play, a long labor for leaf raking and thing of beauty in every season, began it’s life with...
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January 6, 2007
70 degrees in New York today…!
70 degrees in New York today…! BY: PHILIP HENSHAW Posted to the AIA Committee on the Environment Forum 1/6/07 It violates normality… but isn’t the more remarkable thing our relative national silence about the whole torrent of authentic new evidence of rapid change in the climate...
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About Philip Henshaw
About Philip Henshaw Natural science has long been my actual main work, which I've supported with architectural design. Occasionally both have been worth all the trouble it takes to do them well. My recent architectural work includes significant roles in the design of...
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January 4, 2007
Industrial Problem - Technological Solution - Cloning
Industrial Problem - Technological Solution - Cloning Industrial agriculture has been coming home to roost. One of those negative impacts has been "mad cow" disease or BSE. Now, scientists have apparently found a cure for BSE - genetic engineering. This report comes on the heels of the...
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December 31, 2006
Cloned Meat Supposedly Safe
Cloned Meat Supposedly Safe As you have likely already heard, the FDA (U.S. Food & Drug Administration) has determined that cloned meat and milk are compositionally no different from non-cloned meat and milk (FDA Press Release). I would urge people to submit their comments...
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December 22, 2006
Of Wealth and Death
Of Wealth and Death The headlines read: Richest 2 Percent Own Half the World's Wealth; Richest 2% Hold Half the World's Assets; India's 40 million shopkeepers brace for Wal-Mart effect; Nike's dilemma: Is doing the right thing wrong? - child labor in Pakistan; The...
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December 19, 2006
Expanding Markets and Dying Oceans
Expanding Markets and Dying Oceans By: Phil Rockstroh Expanding Markets and Dying Oceans: Eating the Planet Like a Bag of Doritos for Jesus. "Standing next to me in this lonely crowd, Is a man who swears he's not to blame." --Bob Dylan It has been...
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December 17, 2006
Why Isn't Global Warming News?
Why Isn't Global Warming News? Oregon and Washington just got creamed by the second damaging storm in a month. Why isn't global warming news? In watching the hours of coverage for both storms - the one that hit in November and the one that hit...
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December 5, 2006
Stop Exapanded Offshore Drilling Now
Stop Exapanded Offshore Drilling Now The Republicans are trying to get through their laundry list before the exit stage right. Tonight the House is voting to expand offshore drilling. Please contact your Congressperson immediately. Below is the email I received from the Natural Resources Defense...
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December 3, 2006
U.S. Not the Only Nation Spinning Global Warming
U.S. Not the Only Nation Spinning Global Warming While the world has been more than frustrated with the lack of action on the part of the United States, China is not moving very far very fast either. Perhaps part of the reason resides in the information that the...
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November 30, 2006
There Must Be Limits On What Is Considered Terrorism
There Must Be Limits On What Is Considered Terrorism The government is stretching the legal definition of terrorism way too far. First it was extended with the U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act. Then a number of states jumped on board with ecoterrorism legislation. Now the we have the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act...
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November 27, 2006
State Senator Town Hall on Biofuels
State Senator Town Hall on Biofuels Oregon State Senator Ginny Burdick (District 18) is having a toen hall meeting on biofuels at Portland State University. The meeting will be on December 5th, at 7pm in the Cascade Room. See extended entry for the announcement and contact...
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November 26, 2006
Carbon Footprint Series
Carbon Footprint Series The Oregonian is running a series on personal carbon footprints. Patrick O'Neill talks about how to reduce 200 pounds of CO2 by changing your breakfast routine. He continues with a piece on reducing impact beyond your home. There is also...
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November 20, 2006
Do You Dream About Drowning Polar Bears?
Do You Dream About Drowning Polar Bears? Do you dream about drowning polar bears, weary seals, and starving walruses? I do. Each day the ice gets thinner. Polar bears swim over 80 miles, and finding neither ice nor food, they drown. I have thought and thought about...
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November 18, 2006
Shall The Cradle Fall?
Shall The Cradle Fall? Africa, the home of the human race. Science indicates she birthed us. She nurtured our infancy. Some went out from her to spread across the Earth. Others stayed and continued an unbroken relationship with our birthplace. Africa was, and is,...
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November 17, 2006
Beyond Oil Conference - Portland
Beyond Oil Conference - Portland For those in the Portland, OR area ... On Saturday Nov. 18, 2006, there is a Beyond Oil Conference and Reception being held at Smith Memorial Union at PSU. (Multicultural Center room 228) from 9am-4:30pm. Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility...
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November 11, 2006
Moves In the Right Direction On Environment
Moves In the Right Direction On Environment With the mid-term elections behind us, there are some important shifts on the horizon for the environment. Two of the biggest blockages to positive climate action will be moving on climate change - James Inhofe and Richard Pembro - will...
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November 10, 2006
And Gas Prices Start To Rise
And Gas Prices Start To Rise Isn't it just a coincidence that gas prices started jumping up all the sudden? On Tuesday, my regular gas station had unleaded for $2.22 a gallon. By Thursday morning it had jumped to $2.38 a gallon. That is a sixteen...
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November 8, 2006
A Necessary Shift Part 2: Global Mindshift
A Necessary Shift Part 2: Global Mindshift In an effort to expand the horizon of possibility during a time when it seems we are standing on the horizon, I started searching around for "something different." My new top site in the "new" category is Global Mindshift. The...
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November 7, 2006
Thinking About Systems Crash
Thinking About Systems Crash Peak oil, global warming, and now the report that sea life could collapse before 2050. All symptoms of system failure. That system is the earth ecosystem, and it is crashing because of the path that has become embedded under "modern"...
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November 5, 2006
Skidboot - A Heartwarming Tale
Skidboot - A Heartwarming Tale This is a story that made me smile and made me cry. Enjoy the story of Skidboot. Video runs about 9 minutes. A heart-warming segment from Texas Country Reporter, with Bob Phillips....
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November 2, 2006
A Necessary Shift Part 1: WorldChanging
A Necessary Shift Part 1: WorldChanging WorldChanging is an organization and website aimed at solutions to our environmental problems. They are releasing a new book tomorrow called WorldChanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (at Amazon). I have seen a copy of the book and...
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October 31, 2006
Peak Oil, Global Warming, Oh My!
Peak Oil, Global Warming, Oh My! Peak oil and global warming - the Janus catastrophes of our times. Entwined and interrelated, they are equally symptoms of systemic collapse. We face the collapse of natural systems, caused by the insanity of social systems, and leading to the...
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October 29, 2006
Shell's Portland Oregon "Town Hall Meeting"
Shell's Portland Oregon "Town Hall Meeting" I attended one of Shell's "National Dialogue on Energy Security" on October 27th. This is part of a 91 city tour by Shell President John Hofmeister and a few staff to have "discussions" across the nation. Portland, Oregon is one...
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October 26, 2006
A Creative Approach To Energy Production
A Creative Approach To Energy Production The Pacesetters Project is an initiative of The Facility, which is an association of British facilities architects. The project is aimed at producing electricity from daily activities - primarily foot pressure....
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The Independent Throws Gauntlet At Blair
The Independent Throws Gauntlet At Blair The Independent has thrown the gauntlet at Tony Blair's approach to global warming with their Green Manifesto. Here are the highlights: - Decentralise energy production - Rethink aviation policy - Curb road pollution - Step up the drive for renewable...
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October 17, 2006
Energy Depletion & the US Descent into Fascism
Energy Depletion & the US Descent into Fascism By: Dale Allen Pfeiffer A pdf version of this article, suitable for printing, is available on the website Mountain Sentinel. Please disseminate this article as widely as possible. First Warnings 16/10/06 www.mountainsentinel.com In October of 2001, a little over a...
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October 16, 2006
Why Sustainability, not Terrorism, Should Be Our Real Security Focus
Why Sustainability, not Terrorism, Should Be Our Real Security Focus By Jeremy of Biohabit.org http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004799.html What really threatens us? How do we truly make ourselves safer? The Cato Institute (a conservative thinktank) has released an outstanding paper, A False Sense of Insecurity (PDF), which makes the point that in any...
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October 15, 2006
History and Global Warming
History and Global Warming Share the article and site below with everyone you know! 10/16/06 Spencer Weart, HNN, Global Warming: How History Is Being Manipulated to Undermine Calls for Action The Discovery of Global Warming "A hypertext history of how scientists came to (partly)...
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Finally An Acknowledgement of Oil's Role in Darfur
Finally An Acknowledgement of Oil's Role in Darfur The International Crisis group has released its report on ending the Darfur crisis. Central in those findings is sanctioning the oil industry....
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October 10, 2006
ALERT: Southeast Asia's Burning Rainforests and Peatland Threaten World's Climate
ALERT: Southeast Asia's Burning Rainforests and Peatland Threaten World's Climate Originally posted at Climate Ark TAKE ACTION: On November 6th governments from all over the world will be meeting in Nairobi for the year's most important United Nations climate change talks. To date international policy discussions have largely ignored the...
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October 8, 2006
Global Warming - High Stakes High Costs
Global Warming - High Stakes High Costs The price tag to cap global warming emissions? According to PriceWaterhouseCoopers the answer is $1,000,000,000,000. The cost of not capping and decreasing emissions? Massive death and devastation....
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October 3, 2006
Get Out the Vote
Get Out the Vote Time is rapidly running out for folks to get registered so they can vote in the November elections. This vote, like all of them in recent times is critical. Our democracy, our rights, and so much else is riding on...
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September 22, 2006
The Global Warming Snowball
The Global Warming Snowball Reading the news, it seems clear that global warming has become a snow ball rolling down hill gathering both size and speed. It seems that there is no good news to be had, and each new study and report is...
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September 19, 2006
Darfur Hypocrisy
Darfur Hypocrisy Around the world millions have rallied or expressed their demand that the humanitarian disaster continuing in Darfur stop (Council on Foreign Relations, 9/19/06). President Bush is supposedly concerned about the situation in Darfur, and urged the UN to take action....
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September 15, 2006
Big Oil Find Not So Big
Big Oil Find Not So Big The trumpeted big oil find in the Gulf of Mexico is not what it is cracked up to be. Two very good articles are available. One is by Tom Whipple, "The peak oil crisis: Hyping Jack No. 2." The other...
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September 14, 2006
Inconvenient Heroes - The Survivors of 9/11/01
Inconvenient Heroes - The Survivors of 9/11/01 Having just passed the fifth anniversary of September 11, 2001, and having watched at least four programs on the ongoing health issues of first responders, and those near the World Trade Center, I wonder about living versus dead heroes....
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September 6, 2006
The Meaning Of Things
The Meaning Of Things I recently re-read Sherri S. Tepper's book The Visitor (2002). While I recommend Tepper as an exceptional author, and think this is a great book, I am not writing a book review, but addressing an idea that comes up in...
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September 1, 2006
It's the American Way or the Highway
It's the American Way or the Highway Your Extinction Will Quell Your Moral and Intellectual Confusion Persistently ticking off the precious seconds in humanity’s “Countdown to Extinction”, the Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin for Atomic Scientists has advanced to seven minutes of midnight. Yet despite nuclear terror...
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August 27, 2006
Ocean Currents, Dead Zones, and Global Warming
Ocean Currents, Dead Zones, and Global Warming For the fifth year in a row, a dead zone has formed off the Oregon Coast. First documented in 2002, the dead zone has formed for each of the last five years - though in two of those years the...
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August 24, 2006
Peak Moment Television
Peak Moment Television I had the great experience of being interviewed by the Yuba Gals - producers of Peak Moment Television. Peak Moment is a project of the for Alliance for a Post-Petroleum Local Economy (APPLE) out of Nevada City, California. They are...
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A Little Poverty Never Hurt Anybody - Ruthless Exploiters, Inc.
A Little Poverty Never Hurt Anybody - Ruthless Exploiters, Inc. By: Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner "It is like paradise and hell. They throw our petitions in the dustbin. They have everything. We have nothing... If we protest, they send soldiers. They sign agreements with us and then ignore...
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August 23, 2006
Lebanon Oil Spill Hits Seabed
Lebanon Oil Spill Hits Seabed Greenpeace has filmed up to 10cm of oil on the seabed off of Lebanon. The spill is from an oil storage area bombed by Israel. Cleanup of the spill has not progressed at all because Israel will not allow flights...
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August 17, 2006
Peak Oil and Petro Terrorism
Peak Oil and Petro Terrorism On February 24, 2006, CNN aired a clip called Oil and Terror. In it the talk about the attempted attack on a Saudi refinery, and about the ongoing conflict in Nigeria (with Shell). The commentator (Ali Velshi) notes that oil...
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August 14, 2006
Escaped Transgenic Grass In Oregon
Escaped Transgenic Grass In Oregon According to a report in Nature, transgenic grass produced by The Scotts Company has escaped its test plot, and been found almost two miles away. The grass is resistant to Roundup and other herbicides. The bioengineered grass could pose a...
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August 11, 2006
Greenland Ice sheet Melt Accelerating
Greenland Ice sheet Melt Accelerating According to a report in the August 11, 2006 BBC, the Greenland ice sheet is "speeding up." Using a calculation that measures earth's gravity and mass, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have determined that the ice sheet...
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August 6, 2006
There Seems To Be A Lot Of Oil Spills
There Seems To Be A Lot Of Oil Spills Is it just me, or does there seem to have been an awful lot of oil spills and pipeline leaks recently? Cebu City - Phillipines 8/06 Lebanon 7/06 Cumberland County - New Jersey 8/06 Venezuela 8/06 Nigeria 7/06 Russia 7/06...
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August 3, 2006
Global Warming Overstated?
Global Warming Overstated? An interesting UK media analysis by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has concluded that some British reporting on climate change amounts to "climate porn." "Apocalyptic visions of climate change used by newspapers, environmental groups and the UK government...
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August 1, 2006
Along with Peak Oil, Peak Grain and Peak Water the world enters crisis overload
Along with Peak Oil, Peak Grain and Peak Water the world enters crisis overload By: Mathew Maavak A deadly combination of heat and drought is slowly wreaking a trail of devastation across much of the globe, and the full extend of this scourge will only be felt as winter nears....
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July 30, 2006
Israel Won't Stop Offensive For Humans Or Environment
Israel Won't Stop Offensive For Humans Or Environment Israel has refused to cease fire in Lebanon to allow humanitarian aid, and they won't cease fire to allow a cleanup of a massive oil spill. The spill is a result of Israeli bombing of oil storage tanks at El-Jiye...
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Nuclear Power Is Not A Solution
Nuclear Power Is Not A Solution As the price of hydrocarbons goes up, and the supply of oil goes down, many are promoting a nuclear future. The problems with storage of radioactive for millions of years aside, nuclear power won't work. There are two major problems...
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July 28, 2006
Oil Is Nothing If Not Profitable
Oil Is Nothing If Not Profitable Well, big oil's earning reports say it all: there is big money to be made in oil. Shell 40% profits 7.32 billion Exxon- Mobil 36% profit 10.4 billion Conoco-Phillips 65% profit 5 billion BP 30% profits 7.3 billion Chevron 18%...
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July 24, 2006
Death of the Rainforest - Catastrophic Change
Death of the Rainforest - Catastrophic Change The Amazon rainforest is dying. It could become a desert. The study being conducted in the Amazon is absolutely devastating news....
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July 23, 2006
The Planet is Sizzling
The Planet is Sizzling The Guardian headline says it all "100º - get used to it." It is clear that the earth is not just dealing with a heat wave. The news of the heat is dire, but the implications are starting to hit...
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July 19, 2006
Greenland and Peak Oil
Greenland and Peak Oil While the article never comes out and says "peak oil," the reality is threaded throughout "Big oil targets Greenland."...
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July 17, 2006
Globocops of energy security
Globocops of energy security Some of those oil-related doomsday scenarios will meet at a confluence this week. It includes an armed aggression against a sovereign state, terrorism, missile launches, weapons of massive destruction, and disturbing consumer, financial and trade data worldwide. If that isn't...Link to Globocops of energy security | July 17, 2006 9:14 AM || TrackBack | Author: By: | Category: Authors