by Gil Friend | Jan 5, 2006 | Sustainability
You’d expect a cover story about “peak oil” from WorldWatch magazine — but Barrons?!Titled “Twilight for Oil?” in the Jan 2 print edition, and An Unapologetic Alarmist online (needs subscription), Sandra Ward interviews Matthew...
by Gil Friend | Jan 1, 2006 | Sustainability
…says Darrin M. McMahon (author of the forthcoming Happiness: A History) quoting John Stuart Mill:’Those only are happy,’ he came to believe, ‘who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others,...
by Gil Friend | Jan 1, 2006 | Sustainability
[New York Times]: Beyond Gasoline: His Car Smelling Like French Fries, Willie Nelson Sells Biodiesel. Willie Nelson has his own brand of alternative fuel called BioWillie that can be made from any number of crops and run in a normal diesel engine. Yet another reason...
by Gil Friend | Jan 1, 2006 | Sustainability
Dave Pollard offers a long reflection on what we’ve learned from the year-ago tsunami, the more recent hurricanes, and other dismaying events of modern life.Things are the way they are for a reason. We aren’t prepared because we don’t want to know...
