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United Natures - a United Nations of all species

United Natures - a United Nations of all species Documentary movie on the Rights of Mother Earth and permaculture of the inner landscape. Featuring a stellar international cast of top environmental thinkers and doers including Vandana Shiva, ...

Forum topic - United Natures - Jan 16 2013 - 8:40am - 0 comments

Global Warming's Terrifying New Math

Bill McKibben has a new article in Rolling Stone... Very sobering...  Global Warming's Terrifying New Math Three simple numbers that add up to global catastrophe - and that make clear who the real enemy is ...

Forum topic - mainebob - Jul 20 2012 - 11:50pm - 8 comments

Best country to live in for the coming years

I have been reading and searching the forums for some time looking for a thread that covers this topic, and haven't found one yet.   If one already exists, please point me to it. I am concerned about where I see the US going and have been ...

Forum topic - FreeSpiritTom - May 13 2012 - 2:56am - 8 comments

Re-evaluate our priorities

I'm going to cross post this in the dungeon and in the public forums because I think the ideas discussed in the linked article are universal.  One of the conversants in this article, Paul Kingsnorth, claims to have been in the environmental ...

Forum topic - Doug - Apr 16 2012 - 4:01pm - 5 comments

Climate Change: Adaptation / Relocation

( Note : Moderators, if this doesn't have to be in the Controversial Topics area, please move it to allow greater visibility.) Warning And Disclaimer This is a thread for people to discuss adaptation and/or relocation as a response to ...

Forum topic - Poet - Jun 15 2012 - 2:46am - 27 comments

The Definitive Global Climate Change (aka Global Warming) Thread -- General Discussion and Questions

Paraphrasing Aaron Moyer from "The Definitive Firearms Thread" - I am creating this thread so that questions can be asked freely, myths can be dispelled, and people can make the best decision for themselves about what, if anything, they ...

Forum topic - Mark Cochrane - Aug 24 2012 - 11:32pm - 1299 comments

Anima Mundi - new permaculture and peak oil documentary

Anima Mundi - new documentary on permaculture, peak oil, climate change and Gaia science and spirituality. www.animamundimovie.com Featuring David Holmgren (co-founder of permaculture), Michael C Ruppert, Vandana Shiva, John Seed, Michael ...

Forum topic - United Natures - Dec 19 2011 - 10:29am - 0 comments

Canada’s Oil Sands: Energy Security, or Energy Disaster?

By searching "Chris Martenson" yesterday on iTune, I found this interresting podecast by the Commonweatlh Club, debating the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline that would carry heavy crude oil from Alberta to America’s Gulf Coast refineries ...

Forum topic - SailAway - Sep 15 2011 - 12:29pm - 1 comment

Michael C. Ruppert: Say My ****ing Name

I have read Michael C. Rupperts excellent and informative book Crossing The Rubicon [ PDF ] fully twice, regularly using it for reference upto the present. I have also supported - both in review and defence - his 2009 film Collapse [ ...

Forum topic - Vanityfox451 - Jun 15 2012 - 2:53am - 21 comments

Permaculture, Peak Oil, Climate Change and the Soul of the World.

David Holmgren, Michael C Ruppert, Michael Reynolds, John Seed, Vandana Shiva, Stephan Harding, Noam Chomsky, Permablitz and more. ANIMA MUNDI documentary available August www.animamundimovie.com Anima Mundi Trailers and Great Permi ...

Forum topic - United Natures - Jul 18 2011 - 5:51am - 1 comment

Consequences of the development of a social truth

There is no such thing as truth.  There are no such things as facts.  In every case what we believe is a social truth.  We agree that it is true and we all behave accordingly.  Green pieces of paper have value,  paint on the road means I drive on this ...

Forum topic - land2341 - Jun 17 2011 - 1:36pm - 13 comments

Naomi Klein:"...Climate Change is Biggest Crisis of All"

Naomi Kline was on Democracy Now on March 9th: (video and transcript here) http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/9/my_fear_is_that_climate_change Excerpt ...NAOMI KLEIN: Yeah, I mean, the book is not about the deniers, but it does get into ...

Forum topic - mainebob - Mar 11 2011 - 2:08am - 5 comments

The Math is Different at the Top (Part II)

Financial Threats to Power Quote: This is part 2 of a series. Part 1, "The Math is Different at the Top" , briefly discussed a simple paradigm that has governed human societies since at least the Industrial ...

Forum topic - ashvinp - Mar 7 2011 - 2:28pm - 1 comment

Another One Hundred Years of Fossil–Digging in North America?

I did a search here to see if anyone discussed this article from last November, but didn't see anything. I'm curious to know what people here think of the proposed notion that we have another 100 years of oil and coal left, but it will take ...

Forum topic - trwiley - Feb 8 2011 - 2:42pm - 1 comment

Was the 2010 Haiti Earthquake triggered by deforestation and the 2008 hurricanes?

I thought that this was an interesting but technical piece.  It suggests that so-called natural phenomenon such as earthquakes may have anthropogenic triggers in addition to the increasingly recognized role of dams and large water impoundments. ...

Forum topic - Tall - Dec 23 2010 - 10:26am - 5 comments

Tinfoil vs. Incontrovertible Science...

On the CM forums, I have attempted to engage the community in polite but logical discussion on peak oil and man made climate change but have been treated as if I have tinfoil on my head. As I am not a scientist by trade, I have not pressed the need for ...

Forum topic - vilanodavis - Dec 22 2010 - 7:17am - 40 comments

Anima Mundi trailer - Peak Oil, Permaculture and Gaia, David Holmgren, Mike Ruppert

Anima Mundi movie trailer link . Anima Mundi is a new documentary movie (Coming Soon) on Permaculture, the Gaia theory, Peak Oil survival and Climate Change (man-made or not) featuring David Holmgren (co-originator of Permaculture), John Seed (Deep ...

Forum topic - United Natures - Sep 20 2010 - 10:10am - 0 comments

Complexity and Collapse

    Joseph Tainter, an archeologist, recently produced an extremely insightful book entitled The Collapse of Complex Societies [ Book Link ], which analyzes the collapse of historical human societies in terms of increasing complexity and ...

Forum topic - ashvinp - Sep 10 2010 - 6:06pm - 4 comments

Lomborg reverses stand on climate change

Bjorn Lomborg, who many know as the "Skeptical Environmentalist" now feels that Climate Change is the #1 issue facing humanity. Interesting. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/30/bjorn-lomborg-climate-... Arthur ...

Forum topic - Arthur Vibert - Aug 31 2010 - 10:53pm - 20 comments

Gaia Hypothesis and a Side Thought on Evolution

This is a video of Dr. Stephan Harding explaining the Gaia Hypothesis and the fundamental shift in thinking about the world that we need to achieve, or more likely will be forced to accept:   On a side note, here is a somewhat ...

Forum topic - ashvinp - May 26 2010 - 1:02am - 7 comments