TDS on the Left

To have beaten back fascism via the ballot box is not nothing.

— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) November 7, 2020

Wendell Berry

Via FPR: The Future of Sustainable Food: Q&A with Wendell Berry

How Will I Explain Peak Oil to My Son?

The Oil Drum: How Will I Explain Peak Oil to My Son?

Related:
An interview with Bill McKibben - ‘Breaking the power of the fossil fuel industry is going to be the real key’ by John Wiseman (original)

Thomas Naylor Surveys the Vermont Political Scene

La-La Land Liberalism

Unfortunately, there is considerable evidence to suggest that La-La Liberalism is by no means unique to Vermont. Consider the recent Democratic Convention in Charlotte, NC which was long on rhetoric about gays, women, and minorities and short on specific proposals to jump start the economy, create more jobs, and tighten regulations on Wall Street banks. 

All too little attention was devoted to foreign policy including the Middle East, our unconditional support for Israel, China’s global pursuit of natural resources, and what we will do if China cuts back on its purchases of U.S. debt.

Items of Interest, 16 December 2011

Peter Hitchens, In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011

Wendell Berry Indiana Public Radio interview (mp3)

Kevin Gutzman, The Dangerous Supreme Court

Leon Hadar, Libertarians Should do Foreign Policy

Iraq:
Thomas Fleming, The New Empire of Old
PJB, And Was the Mission Accomplished?

Iran:
Phillip Giraldi, A Dangerous Answer
The Inevitable War with Iran
Why Do They Hate Us?
Daniel Larison, Ron Paul and the Politics of Opposing an Attack on Iran
Paul Was Right on Iran, and His Position Is More Popular Than You Think

The Imperial Presidency:
House and Obama OK Forever-Prison Bill
Congressional Tyranny, White House Surrender

Peak Oil and Energy:
A Conversation About Europe
US study casts pall over BC's shale gas biz by Andrew Nikiforuk (EB)


OWS and Economics:
"Worker-Owners of America, Unite": Will Cooperative Workplaces Democratize U.S. Economy?
Tomgram: Barbara Ehrenreich and John Ehrenreich, The Fall of the "Liberal Elite" | TomDispatch
Kevin Carson, Occupy Doesn’t Have a Platform — It is a Platform
Why bringing the bankers to heel is so important… by Brian Davey (EB)
China's epic hangover begins
It's time for economic theory to evolve

Relocalization:
My search for the imperfect Christmas tree by Gene Logsdon (EB)
How much work is small-scale farming? by Sharon Astyk (EB)
Rob Hopkins, “Another world is not only possible… she’s opening a bakery round the corner”.
How Designing Smarter Farmers' Markets Will Help Our Cities Survive
Transforming the Economy: Linking Hands Across the Social and Environmental Divide
Bill McKibben Predicts a Small Future
Time People Who Mattered: Bill McKibben

Diet and Health:
Is There Any Such Thing As ‘Safe Starches’ On A Low-Carb Diet?

Catholic:
Rorate Caeli: Just in time for Kerstmis: The Church that led the Vatican II "Rhine reforms" was rotten
United Not Absorbed: An English Perspective
Reuniting faith: Lecturers discuss Eastern Orthodox Christianity, its history

Homer's Iliad: A New Translation, An Old Translation and The Glory of this Masterpiece by Robert M. Woods
Scholar discovers 16th-century love poem written by an Englishwoman

Masculinity and Friendship:
The Handy Herb
Bizzaro Asperger's Syndrome - beta orbiters
They really do want to tear you down

The Grim Beeper

Misc:
Daniel McInerny, On Writing Jane Austen Sequels
The Thinking Housewife: Has American Ballet Lost Its Soul?

Batman star Christian Bale roughed up while trying to visit China pro-life activist

Music:
AKUS on Tonight Show


Early music vocalists Anonymous 4, bearing gifts from new CD, to offer Chicago concert

Travis Hayley...

Items of Interest, 29 November 2011

Catholic:
Facts Prove the Existence of St. Nicholas of Myra

Rorate Caeli: Abp. Nichols praises "Civil partnerships" for "people of the same sex"

Humanum (via Beauty in Education)

NLM: Cardinal Burke's Thoughts on Mutual Enrichment

Rod Dreher, Gaudi, the Anti-Modern Modernist

Conservatism:
Jerry Salyer, With Friends Like These

Peter Hitchens, Why Do We Make Such a Fetish About Voting?

Kelley Vlahos, Don't be a Tool This Christmas

John Robb, HOW TO WIN ANY CONFLICT

Economics:
Rod Dreher, Our resilient, ‘small is better’ future

He links to a column by Bill McKibben.

Club Orlov: A Million Gardens

The Death of the Fringe Suburb

The National Defense Authorization Act:
Rod Dreher, America is a Battlefield, Oh Boy
John Robb, The U.S. is Hollowing Out Quickly




Education:
MoJ: The New York Times on the Nature of Legal Education (the op-ed piece)

Feminism:
The Prehistoric Working Woman

Music:


St. Tikhon's Mission Choir Sings with "Byzantine Brilliance"

History:
Why Men Fought in the 100 Years War


Special Forces:
"Horse Soldier" statue stands proud near Ground Zero

Thomas Storck, A Short Primer for Protestors

The Distributist Review

What is Distributism? Distributism is an economic system in which private property exists, yes, but private property at the service of people, of the common good, not of those able to amass the most wealth and power and exploit others. Distributism aims at well-distributed private property, small and local businesses, family farms, and cooperatives. Private property is a good thing if it serves the needs of people. If it is perverted into a method of domination by the rich, then it becomes an evil.

Citywatch: Occupy movement identifies food movement common inspiration and optionsby Wayne Roberts (EB)

Transition Towns and Common Security Clubs by Chuck Collins (EB)

Announcing a revolutionary leap forward in the Transition model… by Rob Hopkins (EB)

Pretend jobs by Gene Logsdon (EB)

The Reign of the One Percenters by Christopher Ketcham

The Era of Small and Many by Bill McKibben
Reversing the trend of generations

Elders a (Labor) Force for Social Change by Marc Freedman
Boomers discover ways to apply their skills and life experience to purposeful second careers.

Graduates Get a Crash Course in Sharing by Malcolm Harris
How new graduates are improvising when expected careers aren't panning out.

Items of Interest, 12 October 2011

The Occupation Movement:
Thomas Fleming, Occupied America
Why the metamovement will ultimately fail by Dave Pollard (EB)
Ralph Nader, Rumble from the people (Counterpunch)
Welmer, Occupy Wall Street Protests: Real Movement or More Party Politics?
The Occupation Movement: Grand Alliance or Anti-Tea Party?
John Robb, JOURNAL: A Capitalist Reformation?

More on the Economy:
The FALL of Phantom Assets by Dr. Peter Chojnowski

Tomgram: Andy Kroll, America's Lost Decade

Transition Culture: “Communities are more important than individuals, and probably more important than states and nations”: An interview with Bill McKibben

Joel Salatin:
The Self-Sufficient Gardener: Episode 125 Interviews – Joel Salatin, Cheryl Long, Diane Ott Whealy (mp3)
Farmer And Philosopher Joel Salatin (mp3)
Joel Salatin, Part 1: “Folks, This Ain’t Normal”
Joel Salatin, Part 2: Food Regulation And The Little Guy
Mother Earth News (2008)
Making Food Friendly
Dekacrossfit

Peak Oil:
How I prepared my family for peak oil - Nicole Foss (EB)


Catholic:
Papal Vespers in Carthusian Monastery

Solemn Ambrosian Vespers and Benediction (Usus Antiquior Ambrosianus)

Rob Vischer, Occupy Wall Street v. Tea Party: Should Catholic Identity Shape Our Preference?

Are we really talking about identity, as opposed to political preferences or the alliances that we form with others? Is there any movement that embodies CST? Would we not be better off pursuing concrete strategies of relocalization and living in accordance with the order of charity?

CD-Aufnahmen zur neuen CD "Chant - Amor et Passio": 1. Tag


Probe mit David Ianni für die CD "Chant - Amor et Passio"


Predigt von Kurt Kardinal Koch

Diet and Health:
Mark Sisson: How I'd Change Gym Class


Music:
NPR: A Final Gift From Steve Jobs, Plus New Music From First Aid Kit

Breathing New Life Into Hank Williams' Lyrics : NPR

Exclusive Interview: Scotty McCreery talks hitting No. 1, his 'no' list and prom

Items of Interest, 13 January 2011

VFR: VFR’s prediction about Abercrombie and birth certificate was correct

Paul Gottfried, Leo Strauss’s Left-Wing Nationalism

GG BOOKS: Science Fiction

Bill McKibben, Rewriting the “Tragedy of the Commons”
What cooperation and sharing have to do with saving the world.

A Day in the Life of a BerkShare
What’s it really like to deal in regional currency?
by Bill McKibben

(How New England can change the World: A bang for your buck in the Berkshires - EB)

See also: The abandonment of technology
Cameron Leckie, The Oil Drum: Campfire (EB)

Energy Bulletin:
Cultural hegemony
Damien Perrotin, The View from Brittany
2010 might very well be seen in retrospect as the year when Peak Oil became, if not exactly mainstream, at least something of a subject for the powers that be...Yet very little of it transpired into mainstream press and we can be quite sure, as Matthieu Auzanneau himself acknowledges, that a lot of water will run under the bridges of Paris before any kind of policy is implemented to address the problem. And there are unfortunately very good reasons for that.
(original)

Out of our Ego Houses, into the Collective Intelligence
Andrew MacDonald, Radical Relocalization
Communal life - our tribal past - valued the group over the individual. We left our communal past to put the individual's benefit (and especially material benefit) before the common good, in the process losing much of our memory of community.
(original)

Bill McKibben: The Surprising Reason Why Americans Are So Lonely
Bill McKibben, Speaking Truth to Power
Community may suffer from overuse more sorely than any word in the dictionary. Politicians left and right sprinkle it through their remarks the way a bad Chinese restaurant uses MSG, to mask the lack of wholesome ingredients. But we need to rescue it; we need to make sure that community will become, on this tougher planet, one of the most prosaic terms in the lexicon, like hoe or bicycle or computers. Access to endless amounts of cheap energy made us rich, and wrecked our climate, and it also made us the first people on earth who had no practical need of our neighbors.
(original)

Vermont: Neighbors and Online Networks

Bill McKibben, Yankee Magazine, March/April 2010 issue

(original)

Is More Better? Rethinking Consumption - Inner Compass 817

Video of Bill McKibben discussing Deep Economy

A Letter from Wendell Berry & Bill McKibben (February 5, 2009)

Bill McKibben Interview for The Progressive

here

(mp3 for an older interview)

Reality Report: Bill McKibben (mp3)

Energy Bulletin: Bill McKibben interviewed by Jason Bradford (audio and text), which links to Reality Report (mp3)

The Bill McKibben Reader
Pieces from an Active Life
Bill McKibben


WorldChanging: Worldchanging Interview: Paul Hawken, Bill McKibben
A Green Parent Interview with Bill McKibben | The Green Parent

The Nation: Profile of Bill McKibben

The Creep of Things by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

via EB