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Water Fight: corporate bottom line versus foes of privatization and plasticization

by Jan Lundberg
04 December 2008
Culture Change Letter #219 - I felt oddly guilty being on the inside with major corporados when outside the grassroots activists were demonstrating on San Francisco's waterfront. The coverage of the conflict in that day's Chronicle was extensive, but interestingly did not mention the location (the Hyatt Regency) or even the name of the conference: Corporate Water Footprinting. Read more

Our Humpty-Dumpty Economy

by Dan Bednarz
04 December 2008
This is not just another recession. We are reeling from two entwined problems, “Bad Money” and “The Bottleneck” of ecological pressures. The financial/economic crisis represents the market and Mother Nature forcing us to devise a sustainable economy. Unfortunately, government, Democrats and Republicans alike, is attempting to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. Read more

Recession and Less Holiday Travel: the Earth and I Are Lovin' It

by Jan Lundberg
28 November 2008
Culture Change Letter #218, Nov. 30, 2008 - At this historic juncture many of us are not only aware of financial insolvency, but geophysical limits to growth as well. It's all related. We hold that the consumer economy and its ecological support system are in such dire shape that another cycle of material opulence may not happen. We feel (and some of us even hope) we are staring into an abyss called collapse. Read more

The Obama Priority-Game Can't Be Played With Climate

by Jan Lundberg
24 November 2008
Culture Change Letter #216, Nov. 25, 2008 - Great news: Obama apparently heeds our call not to build new roads. But this article first deals with the ultimate challenge for the new president, and we come up with an historic basis for hope with substance to effect positive change regarding protecting the climate: As some consumers of serious news are learning, the climate is in such sad shape that there may be no hope for humanity and life as we know it in the not-so-long term. Read more

We've Reached Peak Tom Friedman

by Dan Bednarz
20 November 2008
Tom Friedman has convinced a vast swath of otherwise intelligent and well-educated Americans that he's a visionary. I propose this is so because he channels the thought patterns and emotional currents at the core of American conventional wisdom: economic growth and unrestrained technological progress are the natural state of the world -- with the stipulation that America must, naturally, lead the way. Friedman's greatest skill is catchy -- and often oddly phrased -- simplifications promoting our collective identity as the Exceptional Nation. Recently he, as we say in another context about petroleum, reached peak Friedman. Read more

Corporate Water Footprinting

by Jan Lundberg

18 November 2008

Announcement:

Corporate Water Footprinting: Conserving water across the supply chain
San Francisco, USA, 2-3 December 2008, Hyatt Regency Hotel

This is a major conference for resource-minded executives. I will be participating and speaking in order to add the elements of Earth's limits as they relate to the interconnections between people, all species and the world we share.

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