You might not notice much of a difference, but Steady State Revolution is now running the highly customizable Thesis theme. We’ve been working on using it over at Post Growth and I thought this blog could use some revitalization as well. So, I’ve set up Thesis to look pretty close to my original theme. In [...]
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My apologies for the near two weeks of silence, we’ve had some computer issues in my house and a wave of fall cold. I’ve been twitting when possible, but limited computer time has made it difficult to write much. Here is something I think you might find interesting… The United States political arena is mind-bogglingly [...]
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Climate change is happening now, are we going to do enough to slow it down and lessen the impacts? This is a great video (thanks to Climate Progress for showing it to me). Enjoy: This is what Global Warming looks like from NRDC Broadcast Videos on Vimeo.
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Today is Park(ing) day, a day where hundreds of parking spaces in cities around the world will be overtaken by the people, turned into public, park space. This is a wonderful idea – taking back car space for the people and the planet. As the campaign website states it, “PARK(ing) Day is an annual, worldwide [...]
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I’m taking the week off to head out of town with the family. I’ve got some drafts in the works, but it won’t be until I get back before I finish them. Expect some posts next week sometime. Until then, enjoy this great interactive inforgraphic… I’ve been discussing limits in the last few posts. Here [...]
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Debates over limits is not new. From Parson Malthus to Donella and Dennis Meadows to Herman Daly and, most recently, Tim Jackson, Juliet Schor, Peter Victor and many others – economists, policy-makers, ecologists, and biologists have all debated the limits we face and where they are encroach on society (or rather, where society encroaches on [...]
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We need a social revolution to sweep the country (and the world): changing the business-as-usual economy into a stable, sustainable, human-oriented economy. A transition to a just, dynamic steady state economy will require movement of the people. This has me thinking that one thing we need is to create a stigma around pro-growth supporters: those [...]
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Today is the official day of Earth Overshoot: the first day of the year our natural capital spending is in the red. This type of natural debt is far more destructive than its monetary counterpart (natural debt meaning debt owed of natural capital, not a debt that is natural – there is no such thing). [...]
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