“Demand is very strong. Supply is constrained. It’s as simple as that.”
Food prices are soaring because of rising energy costs, production of ethanol and biodiesel fuels, and growing demand. The result is a sharp increase in world hunger.
Sacred Season
Easter, Spring, Passover — in this sacred season, it is time to renew our intimacy with Nature, to be immersed in the process of renewal and regeneration of Life.
Preparing for the hard times
The planetary crisis, the multiple ecological crises, will bring about a very hard time on this Earth. Humans must decide how we will live through this time of turbulence, upheaval, and wrenching change.
A world reeling
In a world reeling under unprecedented pressures, upheaval is now part of the context in which humans will live over this and the next generations. This can be disaster or opportunity, a call to begin creating a new more life-sustaining way of life.
A World of Hurt 2
Record oil prices, the mortgage crisis, the falling dollar — the world of hurt deepens affecting everything in our lives.
Bring carbon emissions to zero by mid-century, or else…
New studies indicate that we must bring carbon emissions down to zero within forty years in order to avoid dangerous climate destabilization, in other words, to save the prospects for life on the planet.
Hate the trees
Developers rip up trees, suburbanites demand more pavement for their vehicles, the world demand for grain, for protein, is overshooting the capacity of the Earth to support our diets, and our excessive way of life in the U.S. adds to the crisis. We must being to downscale and live simply — with urgency.
Oceans as trash dumps
Oceans have been treated as garbage dumps. The damage is vast and everywhere. It reveals an attitude of contempt for the Earth, and therefore contempt for ourselves.
A World of Hurt
We are in a world of hurt, result of our unsustainable way of life and the shifting dynamics within the human community.
