Category Archives: Environment

Religion and Climate Change

Posted on September 7, 2009 by Yaacov

Back in May I wrote a piece called Why We Need More Churches about how religious communities provide social support and help in organizing for social and environmental justice. Now a former UK chief government scientist is making the same … Continue reading →

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Peak Oil: Crying Wolf?

Posted on August 31, 2009 by Yaacov

A short piece from Michael C. Lynch that makes a strong argument against imminent peak oil. It’s well-argued and links to appropriate references. It was written back in 1998, but is still interesting. I’m looking for further rebuttals to see … Continue reading →

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Forget Shorter Showers

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Yaacov

So you recycle, you turn the lights off when you leave the room, you compost, you don’t idle your car and you take shorter showers. If everyone follows your example, would that fix the environmental problems of the world? Derrick … Continue reading →

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Where Does Energy Come From?

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Yaacov

As the wisdom of burning fossil fuels fall further into doubt and many grope for a replacement source of energy, it recently occurred to me that a good question is “Where does our energy come from?” No, really. It might … Continue reading →

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Green Products

Posted on July 5, 2009 by Yaacov

Rex Weyler has an excellent article discussing green products and why we need to be better informed about their ecological effects. He also explains the concepts of overshoot and how our technophilia is preventing us from adequately addressing overshoot.

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