Upcoming reports, essays and projects from Culture Change
by Jan Lundberg
21 December 2007
Greetings readers of Culture Change, on the Solstice! Over the
Holidays and thereafter you can look forward to these hard-hitting and
sometimes uplifting essays and reports:
"Financial meltdown: one of the new Four Horsemen arrives"
A financial-markets observer connects the subprime crisis with
interrelated factors and deeper socioeconomic contradictions that are
converging for the perfect storm.
by Igor Stalew
"The new age of sail: where theory and reality meet"
by Dmitry Orlov
"How we've made ourselves into abstractions" (part one)
"Now we are human commodities" (part two)
"Relearning what we have forgotten" (part three)
by Chris Maser, scientist, author, and consultant on environmental
land-use development/sustainable communities/forestry
"Solar-system's habitable zone closes in as CO2 levels rise"
The sun continues to get hotter, while the Earth's safety depends on
reducing greenhouse-gas composition in the atmosphere.
by William Le Bon
"Reinventing Collapse -- book review and profile of author Dmitry Orlov"
by Kevin Capp
"Not many of us are going to make it"
Consumerism in the face of climate trends, and how songs reflect our
eco-times
by Jan Lundberg
"Banning plastic water bottles: a return to sanity"
Are bioplastics going to muddy the waters, as they did with Bay Area bag
bans?
by Jan Lundberg
NEW PROJECT: Culture Change is taking one of its most significant turns in
its 19-year history, early in the new year. We have hit upon another way
to get our message out, in sync with the times: not just in regard to
ecological reality and what ought to be done, but with an approach that
acknowledges where people are at in their thinking, their businesses, and
place in their communities. Stay tuned and watch for a new Menu item on
http://culturechange.org soon.
WHAT ELSE IS NEW at Culture Change: We have been injecting a little
realism into the biofuels frenzy by referring various players to our
information resources. Also: as the San Francisco Peak Oil Preparedness
Task Force is now underway, Jan Lundberg (a member) intends to assure the
public is offered an interactive debate on the technofix for the energy
crisis. Meanwhile, Culture Change is helping to organize The Big One, a
huge grass-roots convergence for sustainable living in San Francisco's
Golden Gate Park next June. Lastly, our anti-plastics activism continues
on the local level with an eye to national and state opportunities.
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