One of my favorite scenes in the 1980 film, The Formula, is when the oil magnate played by Marlon Brando tells the detective named Barney played by George C. Scott, who’s been sniffing out clues on murders involving a Nazi-developed synfuel formula to “get out of the oil business, Barney.” At least Brando offers Scott […]
Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, took issue with the Peak Oil catastrophists in some articles he wrote for magazines in 2006. Obviously, Hemenway is no oil company dupe. I see him as someone trying to give us a soft landing option precisely through his leadership in the permaculture movement.
“Apocalypse […]
Although Brad Linaweaver is an agnostic libertarian science fiction Hollywood screenwriter who, except for a brief period following 9-11, has opposed U.S. military adventurism most of his life. Brad nonetheless maintained a correspondence and friendship with Catholic conservative icon William F. Buckley, Jr. for over thirty years.
WFB turned against the current neocon adventure in Iraq […]
BBC article in a series of reports about the global food price crisis. Seems the U.N. is promoting permaculture, if not using that word exactly.
The Unesco study recommends better safeguards to protect resources and more sustainable farming practices, such as producing food locally.
TED curator, Chris Anderson, sent several links from TED.com about the upcoming Pangea Day, including an inspiring performance by French singers of the U.S. national anthem:
Internet marketer Ben Mack of Think Two Products Ahead announced a series of teleseminar calls from experts based on the thought of Buckminster Fuller, for the benefit of GENI, the Global Energy Network Institute, which is developing a global energy grid based on electricity from renewable sources so poor regions with sunlight and wind but […]
Maybe this is five days late. . .
Someone hit me on the left side of the head yesterday, so today’s post is being written by my right side.
Insightful critics of renewables point out that gasoline works for transportation. Switching to something else will require a massive investment in new filling stations. The efficiency of any […]
A recent Google Alert for “permaculture” included a Palestinian news site’s article titled “American activist and feminist Starhawk denied entry and deported from Israel“.
Dr. Joanne Taylor, a British psychologist commented on the deportation “clearly the Israeli authorities are paranoid even about letting people grow crops and conserve rainwater on their own land.”
The article describes […]
Dafydd over at Big Lizards, a blog with mostly pro-war commentary, allowed the co-author of my first novel, Anarquia, Brad Linaweaver, to speak his er, “peace” against the war. Brad’s statement was first published in the March 2008 cover feature, “The Great Hollywood Peace Parade” by Ron Garmon in L.A. City Beat:
Lest anyone complain […]
BBC reports Hugo Chavez, in response to the killing of a top Farc leader by Colombian forces invading Ecuador, is closing the Venezualan embassy, escalating border hostilities and engaging in name-calling.
Mr Chavez said Colombian President Alvaro Uribe was a “criminal”.
He said the killing of Raul Reyes, a top commander of the left-wing Farc rebels, just […]
Clarence Eckerson, Jr. of Steetfilms writes of Bogotá, Colombia’s Ciclovia, “a weekly event in which over 70 miles of city streets are closed to traffic where residents come out to walk, bike, run, skate, recreate, picnic, and talk with family, neighbors & strangers…it is simply one of the most moving experiences I have had in […]
Although this three wheel solar “photon drive” scooter doesn’t have air bags, air conditioning, OnStar(tm), or a proper machine gun turret–it will probably fall under most states’ “motor vehicle” regulations anyway, despite Jeff Dekzsty ranting against “motor car” fatalities. And oh yeah, where are the anti-lock brakes?
And even though I’m a pro-2nd Amendment NRA gun […]
Korea treats the Blizzard real time strategy video game Starcraft like Americans treat the Superbowl. Millions watch as a few players seize scarce resources and launch military assaults on a big video screen. Would you rather watch overpadded guys tackle each other on the astroturf or witness wicked on screen simulated characters launch nuclear attacks […]
I decided to drive to my Mom’s place in Chico, California for Christmas last year.
On the way, I stopped by Winnemucca, Nevada to inspect 40 acres listed on eBay at attractive terms, $199/mo for 10 years. The seller has a great reputation selling only surveyed land with solid contracts. The location, where Hwy 95 and […]
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