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by Sarah (Steve) Mosko, PhD
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 If you have already switched to an eco-friendly laundry detergent, as many people do to contribute less to water pollution, you might be surprised to learn that the pollution you generate on wash day has as much to do with the kind of fabrics your clothes, bedding and towels are made of as the detergent you wash them in.
Recent studies have revealed that a single garment made of polyester can shed innumerable tiny fibers into the wash water, and those fibers are finding their way to the ocean. |
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by Jan Lundberg
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The Occupy movement is by and large preoccupied with most wealth being hoarded "on Wall Street" in the hands of "the 1%". While it's true statistically that the money is there, what will ultimately prove to matter more to the "the 99%" is access to healthy land that can support life and human subsistence. When the total financial meltdown hits, it won't be the money in digital accounts that matters, but productive land that is held privately or in common.
Power as people commonly perceive it is not on Wall Street. Neither is the power in Washington, D.C. |
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by Jan Lundberg
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Culture Change and Sail Transport Network are off to Washington, D.C. this week.
We'll have an exhibit table at the peak oil conference on Capitol Hill, Nov. 2 - 5. The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas meeting is a valuable experience for any participant, and in our case we're offering a lot too. Aside from our journalism to cover the conference for you, we're bringing ideas and proposals that can do much for energy policy and peace: |
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by Culture Change
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 American Freedom Radio/Truth Jihad Radio is hosted by Kevin Barrett, a former college professor who undertook an investigative journalism-activism career.
On October 28, 2011, Kevin and Jan discussed on the air some critical issues of the day concerning social change, the Occupy movement, the vulnerability to oil dependence, and what the ultimate result may be from tumultuous upheaval. |
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by Jan Lundberg
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The sixth annual Local Future conference is officially described as The International Conference on Sustainability, Transition & Culture Change: Vision, Action Leadership.
It will bring together visionaries, activists, and leaders as a gathering of equals to explore together visions for the future in areas of sustainability, peak oil, climate change, economics, politics, renewable energy, food security, transition towns, bioregionalism, permaculture, compassionate living and culture change. |
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by Brent Blackwelder
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Publisher's note: The servants of the "Wall Street 1%" in Congress are hypocritical about conservative budgeting, as Brent Blackwelder's informative new report makes clear. It is important to know more of the ways the public is screwed over, to provide more impetus for reform as well as for replacing the present system and culture. - Jan Lundberg
As the Wall Street protests have spread from New York City to the rest of the country, some media pundits have criticized the protesters for being unfocused as if there were only one thing wrong with the financial sector of the U.S. economy. |
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by Jan Lundberg
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 Author Keith Farnish has a problem with Western Civilization. So do I. I mean, Mozart is all well and good, but destroying the planet through industrialism and growth isn't quite worth civilization's accomplishments. Or is extinction a small price to pay for our glorious expansion? The downsides are hard-wired to the dominant culture.
Even if sustainability were not a critical issue, for anyone to have to pay to live on Earth is a ridiculous notion for a society to undertake. But this is our brilliant system, whereby people are conditioned to compete and buy into their own slavery. |
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by Jan Lundberg
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 Santa Cruz, Cal. street
It may be that many Occupiers believe they can bring about major social change without much pain or sacrifice. Could this be an easy revolution, or a naīve hope for it? Not that they believe they won't ever be attacked by police, but that they might keep driving and pursuing their normal lifestyle |
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by Jan Lundberg
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 As I observe the Occupy Wall Street protest and its manifestations elsewhere, I have wondered about my own excitement over the phenomenon. I have been slow to say to myself, "This is it! I've been advocating nonviolent civil disobedience in the streets, and now it's here!" I'm glad and supportive, but to get involved right now by traveling to NYC was hardly thinkable.
But in my town, Santa Cruz, California, 200 people showed up tonight (Tuesday) downtown and resolved to begin the indefinite Occupy encampment on Oct. 6 |
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by Jan Lundberg
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Jan Lundberg, independent oil industry analyst and eco-activist, spoke at the University of Oklahoma's petroleum engineering school for its Bridging Fuels for the Future Seminar Series, August 30, 2011.
Oklahoma's petroleum academia hosted this critic of the region's big hope: natural gas. In addition to upholding academic freedom, the University may have had to temper graduates' expectations of entry into lucrative jobs -- given the realities of fracking, peak oil, and climate change.
Watch Jan's lecture:
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by Jan Lundberg / Donna Sheehan and Paul Reffell
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We are beginning to remember that, as always, it is the Feminine that possesses the empathy and guidance that the focused and systematic Masculine requires. That is what has made humans a successful species, and the suppression of it has pushed our world to the brink of destruction. - Donna Sheehan and Paul Reffell
Jan's introduction:
My early autumn adventure to southern California, my previous homeland, wasn't an historic event. But two worthwhile observations bubbled up to fit with two news stories: |
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by Brent Blackwelder
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Billion-dollar weather catastrophes this year, along with the latest figures on Chinese consumption, emphasize the urgency of a shift in economic thinking.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration cites 10 massive weather disasters in the U.S. this year, each exceeding a billion dollars. The nine months of unprecedented weather extremes include these estimates of death and damage:
Hurricane Irene: 50 deaths and $7 billion;
Upper Midwest flooding along the Missouri River: $2 billion; |
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Songs of Petroleum is available now.
