According to a new study, if the US replaced all fossil-fuel equipment (including power plants) with solar or wind, the results would be amazing: 100% clean energy within 15 years25 million new jobs during the transition, with 5 million permanent jobs — well-paid jobs that cannot be outsourced! the average household would save ~$1,000/year on its energy bills global warming … [Read more...] about Clean electricity within 15 years!
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Left Turn #6-7 — Spring & Summer 2020
Editor: Faramarz FarbodEditorial Assistants: Peter Crownfield, Alex Fischer, Ted Morgan, Sakura Shinjo, Philip Reiss, Robert Kocis, Ashley Velasquez, Rita Corriel. Intern: Katherine Gear (Left Turn is sponsored by the Beyond Capitalism Working Group of the Alliance for Sustainable Communities–Lehigh Valley. Contact us at leftturn@sustainlv.org. Left Turn welcomes comments … [Read more...] about Left Turn #6-7 — Spring & Summer 2020
Sustainability Doings: November 27, 2015 – “Best/Worst of Times?”
A time to celebrate. A time to mourn. President Obama announced his rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline on November 6. Calls to celebrate the victory are in from 350.org; Sierra Club; CREDO Action; Berks Gas Truth; NRDC; and others. More than 200,000 people have been killed in the four-and-a-half-year Syrian civil war. The linked September 14, 2015 New York Times article … [Read more...] about Sustainability Doings: November 27, 2015 – “Best/Worst of Times?”
Martin Boksenbaum: ‘Bonding With the Beauty of the Here and Now’
A major component of the Transition Movement's approach to bringing us away "from oil dependency to local resilience" is through "the heart", the title of Part Two of the Transition Handbook. How do we get an emotional buy-in to the changes needed? Well, Part Two is subtitled "Why Having a Positive Vision is Crucial." Rob Hopkins writes: "It is one thing to campaign against … [Read more...] about Martin Boksenbaum: ‘Bonding With the Beauty of the Here and Now’
Sustainability Doings: June 22, 2015 – “Doing Democracy”
Democracy: Easier Said Than Done Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. Climate Change, while wonderfully thoughtful, insightful, and useful-information packed book, is weak in several areas one of which is the pivotal one of engaging, empowering, and enabling people, communities, NGOs, to take action via democratic organizational structures. She says, after … [Read more...] about Sustainability Doings: June 22, 2015 – “Doing Democracy”
Sustainability Doings: April 8, 2015 – “Dissidents, we?”
Maybe we are. Don't we actively challenge established doctrines, policies, and institutions? Some of us might like to call ourselves the more positive-sounding "civil society advocates" -- which seems to be a label popping up at the Summit of the Americas now going on in Panama. Being a "civil society advocate" is positively tame and a helluvalot less aggressive than being … [Read more...] about Sustainability Doings: April 8, 2015 – “Dissidents, we?”
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Sustainability Doings, 3 February 2015: ‘It ain’t broke?!’
The system IS working?! In the last issue of Sustainability Doings, dated 1/5/15, I blithely asserted: "The system is broken. Everyone knows that." But then, bright and early on 1/6/15, Karen Henninger responded: . "I do not agree that the *system* is broken. I believe that understanding is a lack of understanding [of] the system."The system IS working … [Read more...] about Sustainability Doings, 3 February 2015: ‘It ain’t broke?!’
Sustainability Doings – 5 January 2015 – “Riddle”
How is capitalism like an elephant? The system is broken. Everyone knows that. But do you know that no one knows what te hell the system is? We may be missing the obvious, like the proverbial elephant in the room, that we’re blanking out to, as if it weren’t there or was invisible to us. Or perhaps each of us is touching on only a small part of the whole system from our … [Read more...] about Sustainability Doings – 5 January 2015 – “Riddle”
Sustainability Doings – 20 December 2014 – “Divorcing the System?”
A lot of us are agreed that the system we're living in is dysfunctional. The question is, "How do we get a divorce from it?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From the Files of Peter Crownfield. . . Styrofoam Containers & Plastic Bags – People in the U.S. and around the world use billions of plastic containers, … [Read more...] about Sustainability Doings – 20 December 2014 – “Divorcing the System?”