Just read an excellent article over on AlterNet, discussing what impact Bill Gates’ big speech of a few days ago might have. Gates just announced that he’s putting his massive resources and personal clout behind the target of getting to zero carbon emissions by 2050. Globally. Zero. From the AlterNet article: Gates spoke about his [...]
Archive for the ‘Featured’ Category
25 Mar
Bike there!
I got all excited this morning when I found out that Google maps is now supporting biking directions. Then, of course, I discovered that it’s not available in Canada yet. Boo! Had a lot of fun playing around with it though, as I’m planning a cycling trip through Vermont in a couple of months. It [...]
12 Mar
Virtual fossils
Click here to read the transcript of that live chat at the Guggenheim that our own Peter G. Brown was moderating last week. For those of you in Montreal, Peter will also be speaking on March 24 at Dawson College, at 11:30 am. I don’t have the room number yet; keep watching this space.
3 Mar
Rights of Nature
From the Towards an Eco-Economy blog comes an interesting referral to UK environmental lawyer Polly Higgins and her proposal to expand the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to all life forms. 60 years ago the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was born out of the devastation of the humanitarian crisis of the Second World War. [...]
17 Feb
For art’s sake
Peter G. Brown, author of Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy, is going to be serving as moderator of an upcoming forum called “Beyond Material Worth” at the Guggenheim in New York, February 22-26. This forum will include a one-hour live chat on Thursday, February 25, at 2pm EST. Be sure to check it [...]
2 Feb
Glaciergate
Found a great article today by journalist Gwynne Dyer, Climategate and Disbelief. Y’all know how much I love recommending things for you to read, but this is a good one, and quite short. The weight of the evidence rests overwhelmingly on the side of those who argue that climate change is real and dangerous. Ninety-seven [...]
20 Jan
F(l)ail: How the Establishment Protects Itself While the Earth Declines
Today’s special guest post comes from Professor Peter G. Brown of the McGill University School of Environment, co-author of Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy and author of two previous books. * * * HOW THE ESTABLISHMENT PROTECTS ITSELF, OR THINKS IT DOES WHILE THE EARTH DECLINES. 1. DROWNING IN OUR WORRIES. One of [...]
18 Dec
Read all about it
Interviews! Today we’ve got a great interview with Peter Brown from The Lionel Show, which, as usual, WordPress will not let me embed directly. But fear not; just click here and it ought to either play or download, depending on how paranoid your media player settings are. Also there’s a print interview at Investor’s Business [...]
16 Dec
Plan C is panic…also Plans D through Z
On this week’s episode of CBC’s The Sunday Edition, among the guests was one David Keith, an advocate of geoengineering. Geoengineering, for those that don’t know, is basically the same as terraforming, except we’d do it here on Earth rather than on some alien planet. It involves making large-scale alterations to the way the planet [...]
11 Dec
Live from the centre of the Earth
I’m pretty sure we’re all watching the Copenhagen summit as closely as we can, so in the hope that this is useful to y’all, here’s a rundown of some official and unofficial live TV feeds from the proceedings. World Wildlife Federation: Live broadcast every weekday at 7pm CET. Oxfam: Daily videos. OneClimate.net: 24-hour streaming feed. [...]
