First I wanted to post a picture of a polar bear. Then I decided: I won’t. You know the picture. And you know it’s not only affecting the polar bears…Things are speeding up. (That’s what’s happening if you are in a positive feedback loop…):
Wanna browse through some Permaculture at Sound of Sirens?…
Positive Feedbacks ultimately have the system collapse. (Remember our last article?…) And change is a good thing, you know. Also quite common. ;-)Â Imagine we’d keep on living in an industrial growth society…
Meadows ist Wissenschaftler und Mitautor des Buches ‘Grenzen des Wachstums (1972). Das Interview findet ihr hier. Es wurde von einem Redakteur der ‘Welt’ gefĂĽhrt und dort am 22. Juni auch veröffentlicht. Mittlerweile gibt’s zu dem Artikel eine lebhafte Diskussion in den Kommentaren…
Mein persönlicher Eindruck: Ich mag Meadows. FĂĽr mich macht er klare und nachvollziehbare Aussagen. Und die Kommentare der (deutschen Welt…) Leser finde ich - sehr vielfältig und deshalb interessant. Bin gespannt ob / wann sich hier mehr selbst organisiert wird…
The Global Oneness Project is a web-based video initiative exploring how the simple notion of oneness can be lived in our increasingly complex world.
We’re traveling the globe interviewing creative and courageous people who base their lives and work on the fundamental understanding that we are all connected and thus bear great responsibility for each other and our shared world. Our living library of films is available for free from our website or on DVD for events and educational use.
* We are responsible to each other, the earth, and future generations.
* There are enough resources for us all, if we share.
* Free exchanges of information allow for greater, collective creative potential.
* Love, care and compassion have the power to transform the fabric of society.
We hope that by showing the diverse ways oneness is expressed—in the fields of sustainability, conflict resolution, spirituality, art, economics, indigenous culture, and social justice—others will be inspired to create solutions to personal and community challenges from their own lived understanding of oneness.
They are aware and that’s why we like them! Wonder when others dealing with masses of people search for alternatives…
This is from their website, entry of the 2nd of may (www.radiohead.com)
Radiohead take to the road on Monday (via a plane, unfortunately) to start in Florida with the first show of their 2008 tour.
Following on from their posting on the 19th December and the commissioned report (pdf on the site) on touring and CO2 generation, we’ve developed a new section of the site that gig goers can visit: the most gigantic flying mouth for some time.
Here you can try out our carbon calculator and compare different transport methods for getting to and from the venue. The list of tour dates will give you public transport information where available, and where not, there may be venue incentives for car sharing. There will also be weekly postings from Radiohead’s production team on how the band has addressed their own touring carbon footprint and made it easier for fans to reduce theirs. You can discuss our successes and more importantly, our failings at waste-central, post up more local travel information where we haven’t and make friends with other people going to your show.
Hopefully see you on the tour!
I also found a quote of an ‘Wired’ - interview with Thom Yorke:
“At the moment we make money principally from touring. Which is hard for me to reconcile because I don’t like all the energy consumption, the travel. It’s an ecological disaster, traveling and touring… We did one of those carbon footprint things recently where they assessed the last period of touring we did and tried to work out where the biggest problems were. And it was obviously everybody traveling to the shows…
“Especially in the US. Everybody drives. So how the hell are we going to address that? The idea is that we play in municipal places with some transport system alternative to cars. And minimizing flying equipment, shipping everything. We can’t be shipped though.”
They are in Berlin on July 8th. We’ll bike there, I guess…
Find the songs of their new album here.
As flashy as the title may sound, let’s give them another flashy name, let’s call them renegades of architecture. Working with what is there (which is mostly considered garbage) they are creating sustainable and affordable housing. As Michael Reynolds, the architect who builds ‘earthships’ since the seventies (with much opposition of local authorities, so that you wonder about their interests…) put it: ‘I don’t care about anything but the fucking planet!’
Earthships are earth-sheltered autonomous buildings made of tires rammed with earth, which are usually arranged in “U” or horseshoe shaped modules. Each tire is rammed full of earth manually using a sledge hammer. Windows on the sunny side admit light and heat. The open end of the “U” shaped structure faces South in the northern hemisphere, and North in the southern hemisphere, so that the house will catch maximum sunlight in the colder months. An Earthship is designed to interface with its environment wherever possible and create its own utilities. (via Wikipedia)
See the trailer of the documentary ‘Garbage Warrior’ by Oliver Hodges, featuring Reynolds and his struggles.
Also: These buildings are affordable and you can participate and learn how to make them more and more all over the world. Google ‘earthship’, search for it on youtube, check out our links - and spread the word! Again: This is do-it-yourself stuff! You don’t have to wait. You just find some people and you can take on the responsibility to create a more sustainable future now…
Die Energy Watch Group veröffentlichte im Mai ihren neuen Bericht. Ausserdem ist heute, am 22.5.08 der Rohölpreis so hoch wie noch nie. Und in den letzten 12 Monaten ist der Preis um 100 Prozent gestiegen. Eigentlich ein guter Grund sich entsprechende Sound Of Sirens Artikel nochmal durchzulesen.
Hier ein kurzer Auszug aus dem neuen Bericht der Energy Watch Group:
Seit einiger Zeit tobt eine heftige Debatte um das weltweite Ölfördermaximum („Peak Oil“). Institutionen mit großer Nähe zur Energiebranche, wie etwa das Consulting-Unternehmen CERA, betreiben eine Kampagne zur „Entlarvung“ der „Peak-Oil-Theorie“. Die vorliegende Studie gehört zu einer langen Reihe von Arbeiten, die innerhalb und außerhalb der ASPO (Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, etwa: Vereinigung zum Studium des Fördermaximums von Öl und Gas) entstanden sind und zeigen, dass das Ölfördermaximum keinesfalls mehr als „Theorie“ bezeichnet werden kann, sondern eine Realität ist, die sich bereits vor unseren Augen abspielt.
…Den Analysen unseres Szenarios zufolge ist das weltweite Ă–lfördermaximum 2006 eingetreten…
…Die wichtigste Erkenntnis ist, dass die Ă–lförderung nach dem Peak einen steilen RĂĽckgang erleben wird.
This is an interview with Chris Johnstone, a psychologist, specializing in the psychology of change.
It was held on the day of the unleashing of Transition Town Lewes in England. Johnstone feels inspired by communities creating their own energy descent plan and gives an insight into the Transition Towns Initiatives and its larger context.
Ok, there have been a lot of videos lately on Sound Of Sirens. Still, Vandana Shiva is making a point about the global food crisis which i consider very important to be known and understood. For more background info read her book: Earth Democracy (auf deutsch: Erd-Demokratie). By the way: The IMF is the International Monetary Fund, which is an international organization that oversees the global financial system. The headquarters are located in Washington, D.C. USA…
Hört sich komisch an, oder? ‘In 2025 das Wetter besitzen’… Ich werd einfach versuchen, zu erklären worum es geht…:
Es geht um ‘Chemtrails’, das ist ein US Patent zur ‘Stratosphärischen Welsbach-Anreicherung zwecks Reduktion der globalen Erwärmung’.
Auf deutsch: Mit Flugzeugen wird eine FlĂĽssigkeit (hauptsächlich Bariumsalze und Aluminium) in die Atmosphäre gesprĂĽht, milchige Streifen entstehen und breiten sich aus und lassen so weniger Sonnenlicht auf die Erdoberfläche durchdringen. Die Aluminiumteilchen reflektieren das Sonnenlicht zurĂĽck in den Weltraum - die Temperatur fällt bis zu 10 Grad. Easy, no? Der Spiegel hat auch schon davon berichtet (wenn auch nicht sehr reflektiert…). Sogar das IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) sieht darin Möglichkeiten zur Bekämpfung der globalen Erwärmung.
Und so langsam werde ich wieder unruhig…: Abgesehen von den Nebeneffekten dieser Eingriffe, abgesehen von der Tatsache, dass es sich hier um puren Anthropozentrismus handelt und um eine absolut mechanische Sicht der Erde und ihrer Abläufe, möchte ich auf den Hintergrund und die ursprĂĽngliche Intension der Chemtrails hinweisen:
This is definitely worth publishing in both laguages, so here we go again.
The following text is the conclusion of the Oilreport done by Energy Watch Group in October 2007:
The major result from this analysis is that world oil production has peaked in 2006. Production will start to decline at a rate of several percent per year. By 2020, and even more by 2030, global oil supply will be dramatically lower. This will create a supply gap which can hardly be closed by growing contributions from other fossil, nuclear or alternative energy sources in this time frame.
The world is at the beginning of a structural change of its economic system. This change will be triggered by declining fossil fuel supplies and will influence almost all aspects of our daily life.
Climate change will also force humankind to change energy consumption patterns by reducing significantly the burning of fossil fuels. Global warming is a very serious problem. However, the focus of this paper is on the aspects of resource depletion as these are much less transparent to the public.
