Double Bubble Trouble: Eric Janszen and NAU

Eric Janszen of iTulip and Harper’s Magazine forecasts the future of NAU…and it ain’t pretty.

25 Who Ditched Infotech for Cleantech

The always on-it earth2tech crew has a run-down of 25 entrepreneurs who crossed over from the bubblicious infotech markets to the verdant pastures of cleantech.

Interesting cast of characters, but who will give me the closed-loop solar/geothermal arctic phytotron fungi factory I’ve been asking Santa Claus about since I was a wee permaculturist?

Let’s play a game of Spot the Slander!

For all you Climate Change fans, let’s play a game of what James Hrynyshyn at The Island of Doubt calls spot-the-slander on the Heartland Institutes’s list of “500 Scientists Whose Research Contradicts Man-Made Global Warming.” Better charge your bullshit detectors for this one.

Cause Caller — Get in touch w/ Democracy

Cause Caller uses open source technology to deliver on the promise of a participatory democracy by taking the hassle and difficulty out of organizing phone banks. Users of Cause Caller can create individual causes and associate new politicians to those causes.

Wendell Berry, Where Have You Been All My Life?

Article: Last week I wrote about an essay by Wendell Berry that I happened upon in the May 2008 issue of Harper’s. Since then, I’ve been searching for more by Mr. Berry and, I have to say, I’m bowled over at the moment.

I’ve been grabbing and reading everything that I can get my hands on that’s been written by Mr. Berry or remotely related to him by way of mention.

Greening the Desert

VIDEO: Geoff Lawton of the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia describes in this video how he took 10 acres of arid desert in Jordan and transformed it into a functioning garden.

Shaking the Fantasy w/ Harper’s Wendell Berry and ‘Faustian Economics’

Article: I was absolutely floored by Wendell Berry’s essay ‘Faustian Economics’ in the May issue of Harper’s Magazine. I’ve simply never had an author articulate my frustrations and misgivings so incisively.

Twittering to Freedom

A graduate student named James Karl Buck helped free himself from an Egyptian jail by twittering ‘arrested’ from his cell phone. Distress signal 2.0?
Via CNN and WaPo

Major new study shows that modified soya produces 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent.

Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world food crisis.

Move Over CO2. HFC-23 is the New Suck.

Article: HFC-23 is perhaps the baddest gas of them all. Thing is, very few in today’s eco-press spill much ink in its name, so you’ve probably never heard of it. Welcome to the new suck.