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Happiness comes from within.  It is a perspective that is carried in the mind at every waking moment.  You will not find any lasting happiness in the outside world that is separate from your own inner perceptions.  This is because the outside world only reflects your internal point of view, your internal perspective.
If you are […]

If we expect to have any fighting chance in dealing with climate change and oil depletion, then we will have to rethink our conception of energy.
To be plain, the energy free ride we’ve received from fossil fuels — cheap, abundant, and easy to refine — is over.
Every week, oil prices hit new records. Last […]

This is a question people should start asking themselves. Our food supply is coming under tremendous strain.
The British Times writes that the world is only “ten weeks away from running out of wheat supplies.” The shortages will be eliminated within a year, but this is the first time in 50 years that food […]

Earth Day, 2007, courtesy of Google:

The bees have wisened up. They have had enough and apparently are leaving.
Throughout North America, a mysterious phenomenon known as “Colony Collapse Disorder,” or CCD, has wiped out anywhere from 50 to 90 percent of bees. Some beekeepers have lost 95 percent of their bees.
No one knows why the bees are disappearing. Some […]

As the days turn to months and the months turn to years, I watch and wonder at the levels of brain power dedicated towards distraction. The human mind is an infinitely supple vessel capable of unwrapping scientific mysteries, social phenomena, architectural wonders; it can receive the love of others and the love of the universe. […]

Renowned scientist James Lovelock thinks mainland Europe will soon be desert - and millions of people will start moving north to Britain. Stuart Jeffries meets him
Thursday March […]

Sometimes, a person can be blessed with a quiet moment of insight so farreaching in its implications that her perspective is forever altered. The heavier moments of existence, such as loss or love, are usually the primary teachers who in time come to reveal their benign grace and instruction. But even reflections that might seem […]

For some time I have been meaning to write something about the true threat of climate change and the necessity of action. For lack of time and eloquence, here are, instead, some links to the sources I was going to site to. Sometimes the most damning statement is a simple list of the facts; for […]

The most that can be hoped for in 2007 is some sort of awakening, however small and localized it might be. There is much that deserves attention but goes ignored, especially two significant problems: the war in Iraq and climate change.
Both of these problems are ones that cannot go ignored forever, because eventually they will […]