then low oil prices would seem to be a solution. Unfortunately, the problem we are encountering now is extremely low prices. If prices continue at this low level, or go even
Because the rate of change in our biosphere is increasing, and because every species’ extinction potentially leads to the extinction of others bound to that species in a complex ecological web, numbers of extinctions are likely to snowball in the coming decades as ecosystems unravel. GoneFishing ...
And when the price of oil subsided in the 1980s, the political impetus for radical change evaporated. The foolhardiness of this short-sightedness has now come back to haunt the developed world in the shape of global warming. If the lessons of the 1970s had been properly heeded, even ...
And then of course there's climate change, and we all know about climate change. And I guess the iconic figure of it is the melting of the ice in the arctic sea. Think about the thousands and thousands of people who died trying to find the Northwest Passage. Well, the Northwest is al...
“Land-based crop and livestock production are particularly vulnerable to extreme weather events such as drought, which are expected to become more frequent and intense with climate change,” said … the report’s lead author.… Food production, globally, is responsible for about a third of ...
If you have no savings try to change that first, before going for a ninja loan on a house (if you can even get one now, it's doubtful). Everything will be harder with bad credit. I really like SacredCowTipper's approach to integrating into a community, it's what we did. And Wes...
dramatically less energy than I used to - probably less than 1/3. It is important to note that I didn't make this shift to 'save the planet', but to improve my own life. We all want a better planet, but focusing behavioral change at the selfish/immediate bottom line will work much...
Miami approved expansion to 103 mile system and that same line (just 1 mile added onto end was open) suddenly had BOOMING TOD ! In 2004, I counted 15 of 23 building cranes within 3 blocks of a Metro station. It was clear that being next to Urban Rail was *HOT !!* A change in pl...
Sometimes we need to think the unthinkable, particularly when dealing with a problem as dangerous as climate change - there is no room for dogma when considering the future habitability of our planet. It was in this spirit that I and a panel of other specialists in climate, economics and pol...
Sudden change in fiscal regimes is bad for planning. Yet it is hardly surprising that a resource-rich government wants a bigger slice of the pie when oil is topping $80 a barrel. At an estimated 64 per cent share of the value of oil sands projects, Alberta’s “take” would remain mod...