—M. King Hubbert, peak oil prophet
In striving for the simple life, how far should we go?
Life among the Amish or the “Minimites” can help us all figure out when technology has gone too far
Read: “Rethinking Clean Energy Innovation”
New York Times’ blog post on open innovation for solving big problems
Read: “Far North”
an “eco-fi” novel by Marcel Theroux
What made the market crash? Or a psycho murder?
We shouldn’t jump to find an immediate cause for the ups and downs and calamities that befall us, argues one trader
“Relative to the risks of coal mining and oil exploration, the downsides of offshore wind turbines seem minor.”
—USA Today editorial on approval of the Cape Wind offshore wind farm
Working with water
Nations threatened by sea level rise are starting to look at how they can work with nature to defend their coastlines.
Low-tech Magazine
“Low-tech Magazine refuses to assume that every problem has a high-tech solution. A simple, sensible, but nevertheless controversial message; high-tech has become the idol of our society.” Low-Tech Magazine also has a sister publication, No Tech Magazine.
Newstokens or Newsbucks? Can new currency save journalism?
Online tokens, like for arcade games, could make it easy to pay for online content
Resilience round-up: news from March 2
Community sustainability teams, the IOmniscient CCTV system in Abu Dhabi, and America’s new cyber czar
