In the Depression era, a question was posed: Are you for the Money or the People?
Today, we need to reflect on the lack of meaningful change and the seemingly unchangeable ancien regime of 20th century America.
The Boston Globe ran a front page story on how Corporations invested $100 million per month for ten months, [...]

If we cannot provide public educational excellence to our own citizens, nor universal healthcare, nor rebuild cities such as Detroit, nor sustain a robust Main Street, nor provide meaningful, well paying jobs to all who want them, how can we be expected to provide any of these basics foundations of a civil society to anyone [...]

People who delve into the world of biochar pretty soon find themselves learning a whole lot about soil. Soil, contrary to the Industrial view of the world, is not, it turns out, a simple dirt substrate we act on. To get a glimpse of the biological view of soil as a dynamic living organism [...]

Dear Friends,
After much expansion and refinement, the final copy (Version 2) of the “All Biochars…” paper has been released back to the NABC (NorthAmerica Biochars Conference, Boulder Colorado, August 2009) for inclusion in their proceedings.
As such, the final version of this document, provided in two formats. One is in MS Word ( .doc ) and [...]

The news about the H1N1 flu pandemic is turning out to be very interesting in unexpected ways.
It is critical to understand that, starting in 1980 with Pres. Reagan, our public health infrastructure has been eviscerated. After all, if the government can do no good and is by definition “the problem”, why pay for a public [...]

Perhaps we need to confront an old myth:
Myth X: The market functions well enough today because it’s pricing function is accurate.
My thesis is that the pricing function we have today is actually pathological and is based on playing with crooked dice and marked cards. We want the answer to be “cheap” — so we lie [...]

What I would at like to see are Community Supported Energy projects, CSEs, modeled after Community Supported Agriculture [CSAs]. A CSE, operating within about a 5 mile radius, would convert locally sourced biomass into fuel for carbon negative heat for local buildings. The biochar produced by the heating systems would then [...]

History teaches us that, in New England at least, by the 1830s demand for biomass, primarily wood, had completely outstripped supply. By the end of the civil war, New England was essentially clear cut. Finding new forests to the West, as well as the transition to fossil fuels, allowed us to avoid confronting the obvious [...]

如果大气中最大限额CO2含量是350单位/百万，可如今已经是385，那么仅仅减少CO2排放率是否合理？简单说，是否所有针对减排的策略都如同将泰坦尼克号甲板上的椅子重排？
或者按照逻辑来说，我们是否必须尽快从大气中去除CO2？我们能否尽快将大气中CO2减少10%来避免全球气候紊乱？
在2007年，大气中CO2已含385单位。可是我们并没有听到任何关于“转移重心”的谈话，也没有任何在全球范围内为了保持生态平衡而去除CO2的行动。历史证明了过度逾越限制无疑带来悲剧的结果：死亡和生态系统坍塌。这难道是我们想要的将来？
如果不是，我们已经学会如何完全准确地给CO2“标价”。如今，我们趋于用扭曲的方式标价CO2来得到我们想要的：廉价能源。最终，如果我们 “烧了书”，结果肯定会“烧死我们”。
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It was with some reservation that I attended an Organizing for America event to discuss President Obama’s Economic Recovery Plan. A week or so ago, Zephyr Teachout wrote Organizing for America Will, and Should, Fail which raised some very important issues about the direction Organizing for America needs to be heading if it is [...]