BLOG The Environmentalist's Dilemma: No Point in Arguing what you can do 2009 The last two days in Ithaca at the (extraordinarily well organized -- thanks Sarah & Emily!) Net Impact seminar were an eye-opener for me. On the one hand, I really got the sense that the largely-young crowd of 2400 attendees ...

BLOG Links and Tweets of the Week: November 14, 2009 sipress amazing race Cartoon by David Sipress in The New Yorker PREPARING FOR CIVILIZATION'S COLLAPSE: How the Rich Can Stop Hurting the Poor: Sharon Astyk adds her own recommendations to the Transition Initiative's recommendations, in an interview ...

BLOG Comments on November 4, 2009 post "Do We Really Want to Know?" not yet posted Because Radio Userland is capping comments at 50 per article, and because I wanted to capture these comments for posterity anyway, and because some people wanted to post more comments, I'm reposting my article from November ...

BLOG Hacking the Tar Sands tar sands One of the projects I'm proposing to undertake over the next few months is facilitating the organization of opponents to the Alberta Tar Sands and holding Open Space brainstorming sessions to identify creative, clever ways to disrupt and ultimately close down the ...

BLOG Links and Tweets of the Week -- November 7, 2009 chart of the day What's wrong with this picture? The Standard & Poor's 500 Public US Companies' P/E ratio has historically traded at around 17, which assumes healthy growth in profits for big corporations indefinitely into the future. What, then, ...

BLOG Do We Really Want to Know the Truth? slaughterhouse 2 There's an interesting article by Elizabeth Kolbert in this week's New Yorker on vegetarianism, and specifically on the disconnect between our adoration of pets and our tolerance for the horrific, lifelong suffering of the animals we eat. It's ...

BLOG Words to the Wise Crossword Grid The grid above is not connected to the clues below. If you want to try one of my complete puzzles, you'll find this grid, and the clues to it, and a link to the answers, here. For many years I've been a fan of crossword puzzles, and occasionally I'll stumble across ...

BLOG The Use and Uselessness of Anger argument 2 All my life, I've had a temper, and three years ago, when the stress of anger precipitated a debilitating attack of ulcerative colitis that left me wishing I was dead, I learned the high cost of not knowing how to cope with it. Now I know, and it's easier, ...

BLOG Links and Tweets of the Week: October 31, 2009 (Scary Hallowe'en Edition) debt to GDP PREPARING FOR CIVILIZATION'S COLLAPSE Here Comes the End of Debt: Stoneleigh from Automatic Earth, in an interview with The Oil Drum Europe, argues that we're in for an unprecedented and prolonged deflationary ...

BLOG Maybe That's What It Takes What You Can Do As my retirement looms closer, I've been giving some more thought about exactly what I'll be doing with my days when I retire. In my previous post Intention to Practice I summarized the nine steps that I am following (and urging others to follow, in their ...