What could be better than the new Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS); a recent bill that lets you trade in your old, gas-guzzling klunker for a new, more fuel-efficient vehicle?
When I first heard about it, I had to grind my teeth, since I just missed out on the cash bonanza. My 12 year old Honda [...]
The latest news is that the execs of the banks that got bailed out have earmarked a large amount of the bailout money to pay themselves end of year bonuses. Now we’re going to bail out GM too, again by forking over millions to the very execs whose miserably bad decisions got GM into this [...]
It’s interesting that the manifestation movement became mainstream around the time that the great rug-pull of globalization began to seriously affect the economic stability of millions of Americans.
The prevailing ideology in any culture is one that serves its reigning economic system, concealing the truth of its power relations and its real aims, veiling them with [...]
I’m sniffing a new scent on the wind in the US these days. It could be my imagination, but it seems to me there is a real change in the air.
- First of all, there’s the financial bail-out, and the widespread disgust at the greed and the arrogance of the people involved. The 400,000 dollar [...]
The Regenerative Design Institute in Bolinas, California, is now running an Ecology of Leadership course, which—judging from the one day intro I went to—promises to be truly paradigm-shifting. RDI’s aim is to seed the community with leaders who are guided by a new set of metaphors, taken from the principles of permaculture design.
The use of [...]
When I asked Village Health Works founder and director Deogratias Niyizonkiza what inspired him to build Burundi’s first free medical clinic, he said, “Anger.” Then he laughed and continued, “When I went back to my country, and saw how people were living, I got sooooo angry. So I asked what I could do to help, [...]
I read recently about a good way to clinically stress rats. When you want stressed rats, say for an experiment on heart disease, you put them in confined spaces for short periods of time. A few hours will be enough to elevate their cortisol and make them unhappy.
This made me wonder about the effect of [...]
Have you been to Appropedia yet? It’s a kind of Wikipedia for sustainable development and appropriate technology. If you want to know how to grow bananas AND how to make banana beer out of them, this is where you go. If you’ve developed a way to make solar panels out of old toilet roll middles [...]
I have begun to notice a new conversation being had. It’s so new that I have been skirting around it for quite a while, without having the vocabulary for it. But then someone, after listening to me flounder for a while with much splashing and gasping, gave me the phrase I needed: “personal sustainability”. A [...]
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