Open Left put up this video today by Michio Kaku on the Kardashev Scale:
Currently, the Earth as a whole is ranked at roughly a 0.7 on the Kardashev scale. We are not even a Type I civilization yet.
I was very intrigued by Kaku’s discussion of the evolution of structures such as [...]
Over at the Oil Drum, Stuart Staniford has an excellent, data-driven argument for “Why Peak Oil Actually Helps Industrial Agriculture.” I really appreciate the research that Staniford has put into this piece, as it provides a nice tonic against the alarmism and doomist approach of people like James Howard Kunstler. Yes, Peak Oil is a [...]
I’ll be speaking on a panel at tomorrow’s sustainability conference at UK. The panel is titled “Sustainability in/and Appalachia” and I’l be speaking about nonprofit organizations and sustainability in the region. Other panel members include Ernie Yanarella, Herb Reid and Dick Levine. The panel will start at 1pm in Room 359 of the UK Student [...]
My friend Patrick sent me the link to this new(-ish) wiki, Make Mine Local, which is designed to help central Kentuckians support locally grown and locally produced products. The site strongly emphasizes organic and sustainable agriculture. The site is still new, so it’s a little light on content and is still a little too text-based, [...]
Last week, James E. McWilliams did an op-ed in the New York Times title “Food That Travels Well” that got me thinking. For a long time sustainability activists have joined forces with the local food/slow food activists in what has seemed like a mutually beneficial partnership. Now it turns out, according to the article, that [...]
