So here's an article that says that if it costs more, we buy less... profound and insightful if those words had been spoken by my dog or cat, less so when...
In lieu of a film festival, put almost any music through peak oil filters and the lyrics take on added meaning. http://www.brumm.com/tempo/CollapseMusic/ (Only...
Hello all I am thinking of putting together a new initiative on collapse indicators. The idea is to have a set of metrics that help determine whether we are in...
Hi David, IMHO it's the convergence of bad news on a much broader palette than simple metrics have the capacity to define. It's like what the Supreme Court...
Hi, David. Shrinkage of the world economy would need to be in there, I think. But there are many others you can look at. I've done extensive work for the State...
Good stuff, Andre. State of the World originates, of course, from the wonderful work of Michael Kidron, Dan Smith etc. in the very valuable publications from ...
Hi, Richard. Thanks and although we have the same name we are independent projects. We did look extensively at their work, which is very good, but it didn't...
Perhaps it's an entirely different project using the same name. When I look at some of the datasets you posted, seems to be from a very similar POV. So to my...
i was surprised to hear peggy lee singing ' is that all there is' . i thought the video you sent some time back with the sf songstress was original. To:...
... Oh no. Peggy Lee did it zee best. Leonard Cohen's "Everybody Knows" (suggested by Richard K) is so good, too (probably my new favorite), look it up on...
... Been thinking more and more on this, and think a review of Ran Prieur's piece of Feb 2005 is in order: http://www.ranprieur.com/essays/slowcrash.html Yes,...
Starting out with the concept of "the world will continue to grow as it always has," we'll need twice as much food in 30 years as now, I had to go, "um, with...
There are two different articles involved by the same authors, one for the NY Times and one from the Intl Herald Tribune (the global edition of the NY Times)....
The SF Post Carbon meeting is intended to review only my section of the report, on the economy. It would be too much to review the whole report at one...
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This was my suggestion. I think it will polish up the report to get as much input from knowledgeable people as possible. We don't have to adopt every...
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Me, I'm waiting for Limits to Growth: The Operetta. The nice thing about making an Inconvenient Truth into an opera is you only need one cast member: *** La...
Now, THAT'S funny! Somehow I could see Gore in that opera ( tenor, of course). This might be better than the Nero act. Sharon ... From: Dennis...
... But how can you have an opera when there isn't a plot (in the traditional sense of the word)? I suppose lotsa "mama -me me me - a" which is in keeping true...
Even more exciting is the off-off Broadway musical Carousel: The Tragedy of the Commons (from Garret Hardin's work and the songs of Rogers and Hart (Sally...
Ken or anyone else, Do you know if the DVD is closed -captioned as I have a hearing disability? It usually says it on the DVD and possibly the box it comes in....
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http://tinyurl.com/466m7n "...the world's only carbon-neutral luxury airline, where you don't have to choose between living the high life and saving the...
I was in Iowa about 3 weeks ago and the corn crop was 14% planted versus 40+% in 2007. About a week ago rains of up to 7" arrived and much of the crop will...
... Wow, I was just reading about this from a Des Moinesian I know. I asked if the tornadoes might flatten the whole state and he said, "Already a new 'doom...