Let’s offer thanks to the Earth for lending us the wisdom and passion of Ernest Callenbach.
To Buy or Deface Ads, That Is the Question
Should people pool funds to buy ads for social change? Or should they simply co-opt them to get their messages out?
Preparing for the Future at the Living Earth Festival
Blowgun making, seed preservation, Native voices on climate change, Jeremy Rifkin warning us that today’s children may be the last generation before the “Mass Die Off.” It was all there at the National Museum of the American Indian’s Living Earth Festival this past weekend.
Millennium Consumption Goals—an Update
The Millennium Consumption Goals are moving forward—and thanks to all the great comments we received, they’re getting more nuanced too!
The Number Left Out: Bringing Population into the Climate Conversation
Numbers swirl around climate change.
The relative silence isn’t hard to understand. Population is almost always awkward to talk about. It’s fraught with sensitivity about who has how many children and whether that is anyone else’s business. It’s freighted with sexuality, contraception, abortion, immigration, gender bias, and other buttons too hot to press into conversation. Yet two aspects of population’s connection to climate change cry out for greater attention—and conversation.
Getting to the Bottom of Things: Copenhagen’s Underground Climate Conference
The controversy and confusion following December’s UN Climate Conference has somehow cast a dark shadow over the city of Copenhagen, the UNFCCC, and the IPCC. [...]
If I Were God of the Climate
Standing over a tabletop computer screen depicting a dark and stormy sky, I become the Climate God, tasked with reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and saving [...]
Avatar Meet Crude
Have you ever wanted to introduce two friends that seem very similar and you think they’d make a good couple? I’d like to do this with two films I saw recently. So Avatar meet Crude, Crude meet Avatar. I expect an invitation to the wedding.
Rediscovering the Vanishing Face of Gaia
Understanding that Earth is a living system and that we are utterly dependent on it will be one of the most important cultural evolutions that humanity can pursue, and will hopefully be one positive byproduct of the tremendous ecological shifts that are now all but guaranteed to come during the next century.
