Thorium Reactors?

These Thorium Reactors Could Power Civilization for Millions of Years https://t.co/tBw1UZImw0 via @YouTube

— Robb Wolf (@robbwolf) May 23, 2021

The Fusion Fantasy

Mind-boggling magnets could unlock plentiful power
Powerful magnets are bringing abundant, pollution-free electricity a step closer.@TokamakEnergy & @CFS_energy plans to build a #fusion #reactor https://t.co/xZduQJmdEa

— Hydrogen Energy (@HydrogenEnergy) May 11, 2021

Nuclear Energy Wouldn't Be Enough

A couple of blog posts making the case that neither nuclear nor other forms of low C energy will enable us to keep powering the global economy at present levels:https://t.co/Sqe4tqna3Uhttps://t.co/VpEp92e3Fa#ASmallFarmFuture @theresphysics

— Chris Smaje (@csmaje) December 7, 2020

6 Years and Counting

Counterpunch: Terminal Decline? Fukushima and the Deepening Crisis of Nuclear Energy by Jim Green

Fukushima Radiation

Counterpunch: Fukushima Radiation: a Killer by Robert Hunziker

More on Fukushima

Fukushima's Fifth Year of Full-Blown Crisis

Fukushima Update

Counterpunch: Fukushima – Deep Trouble by Robert Hunziker

Another Update on Fukushima

Fukushima Gets A Lot Uglier by Robert Hunziker

Japan: A Not So Successful Story of Development

Despite the wealth it attained through trade and the industrial age.

The Pope’s Letter: Neoliberalism and Fukushima by Mateo Pimentel

An Insider's Look at Fukushima

Looking Inside Fukushima Prefecture by ROBERT HUNZIKER

Dr. Josh Park

Counterpunch: Dr. Josh Park’s Courage at Fukushima by ROBERT HUNZIKER

Fukushima

Forgotten by the rest of the world. What's Really Going on at Fukushima

At Least They're Probably Right on This

Vatican Insider: Japan, the bishops to the government: it is wrong to return to nuclear power

Fukushima
Fukushima Is Still a Disaster
Permaculture
NKH World

An older article.

Takashi Hirose on Fukushima

Counterpunch: A Letter to All Young Athletes Who Dream of Coming to Tokyo in 2020 by Takashi Hirose
Some Facts You Should Know About Fukushima

Taiwan: A Fukushima Disaster Waiting to Happen?

ADAM CHIMIENTI
The Radioactive Ghost Of Chiang Kai-Shek

Other articles at Counterpunch:
The Self-Delusions Of Empire by Joseph Richardson
The Sociocide Of Iraq By Bush/Cheney by Ralph Nader
America’s Willing Executioners by Rob Urie
The Madness Of King George Revisited by Franklin C. Spinney

Some Pieces on Economics and Growth

James Tuttle, A Crisis of Political Economy

Nate Hagens, The End of Growth


Against growth: A conversation with economist Joshua Farley

His reader on Ecological Economics (pdf).

The city of Edmonton features him in a series of videos, talking about Ecological Economy: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5





A hermit from Korea talks about life and death

Richard Heinberg, Conflict and Change in the Era of Economic Decline: Part 4 - Post-carbon governance
Conflict and Change in the Era of Economic Decline: Part 5 - A theory of change for a century of crisis
(I don't think I posted links for parts 2 and 3.)

Related:


Don't fall for the shale boom hype - Chris Martenson Interview by James Stafford (EB) - Part 2

Kirk Sorensen on Thorium Reactors

Kirk Sorensen: A Detailed Exploration of Thorium's Potential as an Energy Source

Items of Interest, 3 November 2011

James Kirkpatrick, Diversity Is Strength! It's Also The End Of Southern Civility… And The South (via Rebellion)

and there is the influx of Northerners and Yankees who do not share the values, culture, or history of Southrons...

The Merchants of Death and Me by Philip Giraldi

Mother AND Teacher: The Church, Financial Reform, and Realism by John Médaille

John Robb, QUOTE: The Summum Bonum (Highest Good) of Social Capitalism

Huh?

Why the Rich are Getting Richer

Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies


Transition Voice: Take shelter by Gerri Williams (on the movie Take Shelter - trailer - FB, Apple)

Something on Richard Heinberg's new book - A windfall would beat QE hands down
by Anthony Hilton

OWS:
VoxDay: Millenials vs Baby Boomers
Welcome to the Occupation

Nuclear Energy:
Sixty Years of Orwellian Nukespeak

NPR: The War Between Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple
I wish this Mexican standoff would end with all of them in the dirt.

Counterpunch:
GARETH PORTER, U.S. Night Raids Killed Over 1,500 Afghan Civilians in Ten Months
URI AVNERY, Why Israel Will Not Attack Iran
RALPH NADER, The Road to the 2012 Presidential Debates

Diet and Health:
Mark Sisson, Introducing the New Primbal Blueprint Food Pyramid
Another Simple Question: The Paleo Diet is Not The Way to a Healthy Future For Whom?
And Why Are You Paleo?
(RN visits Happy Hound in Los Gatos.)


Classical Education:
Reading

Catholic:
Full Interview with Robert P. George (via Mere Comments)

Two novels by women world famous for their literary works published by Ignatius Press (Sigrid Undset)

The Introduction to "A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Carmel Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes"

Rorate Caeli: The Roman Rite: Old and New - VI
The New Mass and the Church: the underlying theology of the New Rite is Protestant and motivated by Ecumenism and A diocesan priest ordained according to the 1962 Pontifical

Once I Was a Clever Boy: Adjusting the Succession

Music:
A review of Secret Voices by Anonymous 4
The Sixteen: James MacMillan, Miserere
(I'm not a James MacMillan fan...)

Koide Hiroaki

ATimes: Engineer dismantles facade of Japan's nuclear industry



paper
Hiroaki Koide on the Dream of a Nuclear Japan
Nuclear Safety Research Group

Items of Interest, 8 July 2011

Medieval News: Latest News on the theft of the Codex Calixtinus

Breaking the Spell of Money
To fix the economy, we first have to change our definition of wealth
by Scott Russell Sanders

Uranium Supply Update

One home grower is hit by the city's tyrannical code: Does Michelle Obama Know About This?

Shannon Hayes, The Unsupportive Partner

Basketball patches and plastic jug blossoms
Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer, Mulligan Books

John Michael Greer, Salvaging Energy

Ten Steps to Save the Cities
The new economics agenda for thriving local economies

Alberto's Paleo Transformation