Tuesday, August 17, 2010

There's a lot of good stuff at Energy Bulletin today

Just a few of the posted items:
Confessions of a recovering environmentalist (original)
Paul Kingsnorth, OpenDemocracy

"Environmentalism, which in its raw, early form had no time for the encrusted, seized-up politics of left and right, has been sucked into the yawning, bottomless chasm of the 'progressive' left." A personal, twenty-year journey through the world’s wild places and the movements to protect them is also, for Paul Kingsnorth, an education in the limits of a project that has forgotten nature and lost its soul.

Economics as if people mattered (original)
Carl Etnier, Equal Time Radio

Robert Costanza is professor of ecological economics at the University of Vermont and director of the Gund Institute of Ecological Economics. He talks about the things most economists overlook, like the fact that growth can't continue forever on a finite planet, and the ways our well-being is not connected with how much money we have.

The Transition of Appalachia
Anthony Flaccavento, Solutions

The dilemma of poverty in the South: equity or transformation
Rahul Goswami, Energy Bulletin

The gulf at the gas station: Can we calculate the true cost of our dependence on oil?
Mark Engler, TomDispatch.com

The failure of networked systems: The repercussions of systematic risk revisited
aeldric, The Oil Drum: Australia/New Zealand

Opportunity cost of growth
Herman Daly, The Daly News

Agroinnovations #99: Ecological Imperialism
Frank Aragona, Agroinnovations


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