As a beneficial owner of land on the third runway site administered by the Airplot campaign I stand fervently in opposition to the building plans.
Quite apart from the socially irresponsible environmental implications, the idea that this runway will boost the UK economy in the short or long term is preposterous. First of all, despite the [...]
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Letter to Gordon Brown concerning the 3rd runway at Heathrow
Posted in British government, Climate Change, Corporate Accountability, Economics, Energy Crisis, Financial crisis, Peak Oil, Politics, UK, tagged airplot, emissions, Energy Crisis, Gordon Brown, heathrow, Parliament, Politics, runway, UK on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Quote of the day
Posted in Climate Change, Corporate Accountability, Economics, Energy Crisis, Globalization, Industrial Agriculture, Industrialization, Peak Oil, Politics, Quotes, Values, tagged Climate Change, Consumer, Corporate Accountability, Dorian Gray, Industrial Agriculture, Oscar Wilde, Peak Oil, Politics, quote, Values, Victorian on January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Chapter III (by Oscar Wilde)
Oscar Wilde’s observation of the decline of moral values in late nineteenth century Victorian English society resonates with even more force today. This aphorism is behind more of the world’s ills than one might [...]
Recommended books for those who wish to make a better world for all of us (eventually)
Posted in 9/11, Cheney, Climate Change, Corporate Accountability, Economics, Energy Crisis, Financial crisis, Globalization, Industrialization, Iran, Iraq, Peak Oil, Politics, The Media, US Election, advertisting, childhood obesity, fast food, marketing, obesity, tagged Peak Oil, Climate Change, fast food, advertisting, obesity, reading, books, Economics on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Small Is Beautiful : Economics As If People Mattered
by E F Schumacher
Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil
by Michael C Ruppert
Heat
by George Monbiot
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography
by Webster Griffin Tarpley
(This list is ongoing)
Quote of the day
Posted in Climate Change, Corporate Accountability, Energy Crisis, Financial crisis, Globalization, Industrialization, Peak Oil, Politics, The Media, tagged Politics, Tolstoy, quote, poverty, education, elite, greed, business, literature on October 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I sit on a man’s back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back.
–Leo Tolstoy
UK government creates the Department for Energy and Climate Change
Posted in Climate Change, Corporate Accountability, Energy Crisis, Financial crisis, Globalization, Industrialization, Peak Oil, Politics, The Media, tagged Energy Crisis, Peak Oil, Climate Change, Financial crisis, Credit Crunch, Department for Energy and Climate Change, DECC, energy supply, oil companies, economic growth on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On October 3rd Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced, among other things, the creation of the new Department for Energy and Climate Change. This is the first substantial public recognition from the UK government that energy and climate change are inextricably linked and need to be addressed as such in government policy. The tiny blurb on [...]
Mike Ruppert
Posted in 9/11, Cheney, Climate Change, Corporate Accountability, Energy Crisis, Financial crisis, Peak Oil, Politics, The Media, tagged Financial crisis, Mike Ruppert, Michael C. Ruppert, Crossing the Rubicon, US economy, Bush administration on September 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of my personal heroes is a man called Michael C Ruppert. For the last three decades he has been tirelessly and fearlessly digging to get at the truth of what is really going on in the world while most of us have been focused on generating wealth for ourselves. He has done so for [...]
2nd letter response from Sarah Teather, Liberal Democrat MP, 24 July 2008
Posted in Climate Change, Corporate Accountability, Energy Crisis, Financial crisis, Globalization, Industrialization, Peak Oil, Politics, The Media, tagged Energy Crisis, Peak Oil, Climate Change, UK, Financial crisis, Sarah Teather, MP, Parliament, Credit Crunch, Kilburn, Brent East on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Mr Mowshowitz,
Climate Change
Thank you for your further letter on the issue of climate change, which I received on the 10th of July 2008.
I have outlined to you my concern that climate change is an extremely urgent issue that must be tackled with strong measures, and without delay. Although I am not familiar with the [...]
Letter response from Sarah Teather MP, 24 June 2008
Posted in Climate Change, Corporate Accountability, Energy Crisis, Globalization, Industrialization, Peak Oil, Politics, The Media, Uncategorized, tagged Brent, Climate Change, Energy Crisis, House of Commons, MP, Parliament, Politics, Sarah Teather on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My wife and I live in northwest London. In June we moved to a different neighborhood and are now living under the jurisdiction of Brent council, represented by Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Teather. As soon as we’d settled in I read her profile on theyworkforyou.com and wrote her a letter concerning the urgency of strengthening [...]
7 Years Closer to the End of Infinite Economic Growth
Posted in 9/11, Climate Change, Corporate Accountability, Energy Crisis, Iran, Iraq, Peak Oil, Politics, The Media, tagged 9/11, afghanistan, brooklyn, Energy Crisis, Iraq, new york, oil, world trade center, wtc on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On this day 7 years ago I awoke in my tiny Brooklyn studio apartment to my alarm clock radio saying something about a plane hitting the World Trade Center. In my mind I pictured a small, private aircraft smacking into the side of a tower after losing control. This sort of thing does happen occasionally [...]
Tapping the Sahara to Meet Europe’s Electricity Needs
Posted in Africa, Climate Change, Corporate Accountability, Energy Crisis, Peak Oil, The Media, tagged Africa, Algeria, climate, energy, media, Sahara, solar, sub-Sahara on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The top story on the Guardian website this morning:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jul/23/solarpower.windpower
The proposal is to build an enormous solar farm in the Sahara desert that could one day supply Europe with most of – if not all of – the clean, renewable electricity it needs. If the proposal turns out to be feasible and timely then what could [...]
