Tag Archives: James Howard Kunstler
Where have I been?????
It’s a rough couple weeks here in my part of Brooklyn. My beloved computer gave up the ghost, doing serious damage to the hard drive when a virus clean went awry. An amazing (and non-data related) physical viral infection came down on our heads like an avenging angel, withering everyone in the household for days […]
Peak Oil! Spectra, Dumpster Diving and seven year old predictions!!
In yesterday’s post I made some arguments about the resource arguments for veganism and changing the ways that we produce and use food. In the course of producing yesterday’s post on Dumpster Diving, I had revisited a number of different websites and documentaries to find support for the arguments for the practice of taking people’s wasted food. […]
The Dumpster Divers!!
So I’m minding my own business walking home from an evening meeting in Park Slope and who should I meet by accident than my bud Kathleen Stansell. For those of you following her on WBCR these days, you’ll know that Kathleen has been leaning toward a different flavor of activism–food activism as exemplified in the […]
The Romney Plan for Energy
So the Romney campaign has released its energy plan. It looks a lot like the things envisioned by Reagan a political generation ago–lots more drilling on federal land, no nod to conservation or global warming, subsidies for alt energy like solar and wind killed. It’s different from Obama, but not markedly different–Obama is hardly a greenie, […]
The Brooklyn Culture Jam 