Grief and Carbon Reductionism
People are not going to be frightened into caring about the climate. Scientific predictions about what will happen 50 years in the future are not going to make us care enough. We need to face the reality of loss.
When Renewables Destroy Nature: How Integrating Society Into Nature Can Be Bad For Both
“The renewable energy paradigm requires an unprecedented industrial reengineering of the landscape,” – one that “sees all of nature as an integrated machine for producing energy.”
Biospherics: What Nature Does for Us
John Allen’s focus on Biosphere 2 was different from the mainstream. Typically, biological and ecological research is devoted to understanding the individual parts of systems, or even ecosystems. Allen wanted to know how the whole thing worked.
Sacred Law
In April 2010, I proposed to the United Nations a law of Ecocide. My proposal has at its heart a fundamental intrinsic value the sacredness of all life. Currently, our world is driven by laws that put profit first. How do we shift to a new way of being that prioritises intrinsic values, that values something for its own sake?
Air Fuel
It sounds too good to be true, but it's not – Guy Negre has created the Airpod, a vehicle whose engine runs on air.