Environment
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From Despair To Impassioned Inspiration (Carolyn Baker)
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on ...
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Understanding the BP Oil Tragedy: Time Blindness (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Joel S. Hirshhorn Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust July 6, 2010 -- A loss expected to happen next year looks smaller than that same loss happening next week. Worse yet, a loss or catastrophe th ...
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The Journey From Anger To Anguish: Responding To Eco-cide (Carolyn Baker)
Messenger My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums. Here the clam deep in the speckled san ...
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Deepwater Horizon: The Worst-Case Scenario (Richard Heinberg)
June 20, 2010 -- (Post Carbon Institute) -- Reports from the Gulf of Mexico just keep getting worse. Estimates of the rate of oil spillage from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead just keep gushing (the l ...
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Vulnerable Nations at Copenhagen Summit Reject 2C Target | John Vidal
Alliance of Small Island States say any deal that allows temperatures to rise by more than 1.5C is 'not negotiable' Dec. 10, 2009 (Guardian) -- More than half the world's countries say they are deter ...
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The editorial seen around the world | Mark Leon Goldberg
A version of the same editorial calling for action in Copenhagen ran in 56 newspapers in 45 countries today. Many on the front page. This unprecedented effort was spearheaded by the Guardian. Good fo ...
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Scientist Says Warming Will 'Wipe Out Billions' If Political Leaders Fail To Act (Jenny Fyall)
Nov. 29, 2009 -- Most of the world's population will be wiped out if political leaders fail to agree a method of stopping current rates of global warming, one of the UK's most senior climate scientis ...
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Antarctica: Collapse of the ice bridge supporting Wilkins Ice Shelf appears imminent
April 3, 2009 (European Space Agency) -- The Wilkins Ice Shelf is at risk of partly breaking away from the Antarctic Peninsula as the ice bridge that connects it to Charcot and Latady Islands looks s ...
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I Love a Planet with a Happy Atmosphere (Michael Greenwell)
March 24, 2009 (World News Trust) -- The newspapers and TV like natural disasters. They provide countless emotional and, on the whole, non-controversial scenes (with the exception of New Orleans as t ...
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Future Scenarios, By David Holmgren -- A Review By Carolyn Baker
Future Scenarios offers fascinating and fertile challenges for engaging Peak Oil and climate change and confronts us with the question that will not die: Will our journey to a post-petroleum world be ...
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Overpopulation, Overconsumption and the Balance of Power (Dale Allen Pfeiffer)
Feb. 10, 2009 (www.mountainsentinel.com) -- I have been asked to write about overpopulation as part of an effort to focus awareness on this problem.
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