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"Food-Miles and the Relative Climate Impacts of Food Choices in the United States" by Christopher L. Weber and H. Scott Matthews, Carnegie Mellon University, Environmental Science & Technology 2008, 42 (10), 3508?3513; DOI 10.1021/es702969f.
Many exciting developments have emerged over the past few months, including the opening of our new office in Sebastopol, CA. As a newly established non-profit organization, Transition US is working in close partnership with the Transition Network, as well as the Post Carbon Institute to catalyze, inspire, encourage,
We are now beginning to hear predictions of even less growth, and the likely length of the depression increasing.
It's a little unfortunate that the only people who can get a word into the newspapers or onto the television, are in fact prime candidates for being helped by the men in white coats.
All they succeed in doing is causing confusion amongst those of us who are in the process of evolving into a more sensible human being.
The old "modern" paradigm has lived its life -- bring on the new paradigm.
Climate change will have a gradual but profound impact on many things that make Maine what it is, from the kinds of trees in our forests to the creatures who live on our land, fly in our skies and swim through our waters.
The combination of different crises, some related to the moment, others systemic, forces us all to work on two fronts: one, intra-systemic, seeking immediate solutions in orderto save lives, guarantee jobs and production, and to avoid collapse. The other, trans-systemic, elaborating a rigorous critique of the theoretical fundamentals that have brought us to the present chaos, and developing others that may engender an alternative that on another level allows the continuity of the human planetary project.
Editor's note: Written especially for Culture Change readers, this solid analysis asks "At what point do we recognize that expensive technologies meant to maintain a 'sustainable' consumer society among the world's wealthiest people are utterly divorced from any reasonable moral coherence? Are we ever going to provide plug in hybrids to the citizens of Darfur?"
[Rachel's introduction: In this final issue of Rachel's News, editor Peter Montague concludes our popular 17-part series, "What We Must Do."]
By Peter Montague
In this final issue of Rachel's News, I offer the last installment of on our 17-part series, "What We Must Do."[1]
Alligators basking off the English coast; a vast Brazilian desert; the mythical lost cities of Saigon, New Orleans, Venice and Mumbai; and 90 per cent of humanity vanished. Welcome to the world warmed by 4 deg. C [7.2 deg. Fahrenheit].
Don't be fooled by low oil prices. Cheaper gasoline does not mean that we now have plenty. Oil prices plummeted with the crashing economy, like everything else, but this does not change the fact that the peak rate of global oil production is now probably behind us. In fact, low oil prices make it more likely that global oil production will never again exceed the long plateau from 2005 to 2008.
Hampton Falls, N.H. -- Energy-saving systems for the attic, basement, and in between have effectively gone on sale, courtesy of the United States Congress.
But whether shoppers will take advantage -- or even notice available discounts -- remains an open question.
