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EcoMind Thought Trap #3
EcoMind: changing the way we think, to create the world we want. Frances Moore Lappé. New York: Nation Books, 2011. In EcoMind, Frances Moore Lappé sets out seven “thought traps” which she seeks to defeat and replace with better ways … Continue reading
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EcoMind Thought Trap #1
EcoMind: changing the way we think, to create the world we want. Frances Moore Lappé. New York: Nation Books, 2011. In EcoMind, Frances Moore Lappé (most notably of Diet for a Small Planet fame, written in 1971) sets out seven … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Economics, Limits to Growth, Peak oil
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The Economy and the Environment — Can We Have Both?
Can we have both economic progress and save the environment?Yes, we can have a sustainable economy and keep people employed, feed the hungry, and keep everyone warm during the winter. But the country as a whole will be poorer — … Continue reading
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Plenty of Something (review)
Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth, by Juliet Schor (New York: Penguin Press, 2010). (Also published in paperback as True Wealth.) Plenitude argues for an “ecological economics” which turns a lot of what we think about wealth upside down. … Continue reading
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Is Economic Growth Over?
Review of The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality by Richard Heinberg My rating: 4 of 5 stars (as a Goodreads review) This is a tough book to review because basically, it depends on the audience. Generally, … Continue reading
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Move Over, Meat: A More Wasteful Use of Corn
Vegetarians used to be able to say that most corn grown in the U. S. went for livestock. According to the USDA, that won’t be true this year. Something which is even more wasteful, even more mind-boggling in its stupidity, … Continue reading
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Interview: Why the environmental issue is important for vegans
Last January 21, the KPOV show “All Things Vegan” aired an interview of me in which we discussed a number of issues, the most important of which is why the environmental issue is important for vegans. The following clip gives … Continue reading
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Is a Steady State Economy Possible?
Gail Tverberg, whose blog “Our Finite World” is one of my favorites (along with Juan Cole’s “Informed Comment”), recently wrote a blog titled “There is No Steady State Economy (except at a very basic level).” She contends that while … Continue reading
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“The Food and Farming Transition” report — a quick evaluation
The Food and Farming Transition is a report from the Post-Carbon Institute which was posted in 2009. This report is interesting not just because of its content, but because it demonstrates what food issues are — and are not — … Continue reading
Human Domination of the Natural World
Just what does human domination of the natural world mean in biological terms? It means that over 90% of the mammals on the planet (by biomass) are humans and their livestock.