Global Warming/Climate Change
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Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute, Washington D.C., U.S.A. Lester Brown In the May issue of Scientific American, Lester…
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Play the McDonald’s Video Game!
Today we look at another environmental feedback loop, and also put you in the driver’s seat of the world’s biggest…
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Earth Day – The Lotto Way of Thinking
Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins No time to piss about. Slim down.
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Earth Policy Institute Press Teleconference – How Food Shortages Could Bring Down Civilization
Teleconference: Thursday, April 23, 11:00 AM EDT Environmental Analyst Lester Brown: How Food Shortages Could Bring Down Civilization Washington, DC…
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When Fixes Need Fixing?
Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins Grist provides these two links to reports of pending agricultural collapse in the Punjab…
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An Industrial Revolution Like No Other
French illustrator and printmaker Gustave Doré shows the squalid conditions in London, England created for the urban labouring classes by…
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Small is Beautiful
Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins A journey of a thousand miles begins with etc etc. As ice sheets crack…
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More Nails in Satire’s Coffin
Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins Truth is far stranger and dumber than fiction. Noel Lynch brought the Tesco idiocy…
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Choice and Prosperity
Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins It’s a conundrum, isn’t it? Development and climate change. Such a dilemma – convoluted…
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The End of an Era: Closing the Door on Building New Coal-fired Power Plants in America
by Jonathan G. Dorn, Earth Policy Institute Community opposition, legal challenges, and financial uncertainty over future carbon costs are prompting…
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Capping C02 Emissions Will Steal “Plant Food”
The nonsense that sometimes gets bandied about on climate change often leaves me gobsmacked – but when it comes from…
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Apocalypse When?
Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins This was much funnier in my head. Never mind. What d’ya want f’ nowt?…
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