Monthly Archives: July 2017
‘How to Stop the Empire’ at the Tremors Art Show!
I will be performing my play HOW TO STOP THE EMPIRE WHILE KEEPING YOUR DAY JOB, a play about Occupations, on Saturday August 19, at 7 PM at Green Point Studios, 260 Java Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11222 City. The performance will be part of “TREMORS”. “TREMORS” is an art show exhibiting socially conscious artwork interpreting the […]
Rockaway Beach and the (now) Legal bike ride!
Five years ago I wrote of the loss of the best illegal bike ride in New York City. It was a really long ride one could take along Belle Harbor, from Riis Park to the Nassau County line at Atlantic Beach Bridge. It was technically illegal because much of the ride passed along a boardwalk […]
The Cassandra problem
I get no joy from warning people about what global warming is doing to the planet. I think I’m getting into what might be called the Elizabeth Kübler-Ross trap. Kübler-Ross admitted in her writing that the caregiver who must speak to the patient and the family when the condition is terminal will never be able […]
EROEI and the Collapse of Empires
Originally posted on Collapse of Industrial Civilization:
The above video is a discussion with Dr. Charles Hall of the Dept. of the SUNY-Environmental and Forest Biology. He is the primary creator behind the concept of EROEI in the field of biophysical economics. He also cowrote the new book “Energy and the Wealth of Nations“. I just heard…
11,000 Wikileaks documents related to Fukushima
Originally posted on Fukushima 311 Watchdogs:
? 4131 files on Fukushima 2011 https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/?q=Fukushima+2011&mfrom=&mto=&title=¬itle=&date=&nofrom=¬o=&count=50&sort=0&file=&docid=&relid=0#searchresult 4062 files on reactor 2011 https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/?q=Reactor+2011&mfrom=&mto=&title=¬itle=&date=&nofrom=¬o=&count=50&sort=0&file=&docid=&relid=0#searchresult 2470 files on meltdown 2011 https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/?q=Meltdown+2011&mfrom=&mto=&title=¬itle=&date=&nofrom=¬o=&count=50&sort=0&file=&docid=&relid=0#searchresult 262 files on cesium 2011 https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/?q=Cesium+2011&mfrom=&mto=&title=¬itle=&date=&nofrom=¬o=&count=50&sort=0&file=&docid=&relid=0#searchresult 282 files on iodine 2011 https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/?q=Iodine+2011&mfrom=&mto=&title=¬itle=&date=&nofrom=¬o=&count=50&sort=0&file=&docid=&relid=0#searchresult 344 files on Uss Ronald Reagan https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/?q=Uss+ronald+2011&mfrom=&mto=&title=¬itle=&date=&nofrom=¬o=&count=50&sort=0&file=&docid=&relid=0#searchresult ?
Hope, hopelessness and hopium on global warming
First up, I had a lovely conversation last week with Steven Grumbine, the person who organized last year’s March to Restore Democracy in DC. Steven’s a driving force in the group called Real Progressives, and he talks a lot about economics and deficits and also MMT (Modern Monetary Theory). But that wasn’t what we were talking […]
The Brooklyn Culture Jam 