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I’ve been burning up my extra hours lately at BPTV, a web site that streams short video clips of leading thinkers and activists in sustainability. This is a really useful site, in that it presents a highly distilled version of truly complex ideas. You get the jist of what these folks [...]

Before I even start this I need to make one thing clear: I respect and admire Al Gore. He has completely dedicated himself to communicating what the ‘climate crisis’ really is, and what it means for us. He is one of the very few public figures in America who is using celebrity [...]

The Conservation Exchange
This is a piece I first wrote back in 1998 and then edited in early 2000. It was inspired largely by insights gained from reading Gretchen Daily’s book “Nature’s Services”, and while some of this seems naive and/or fanciful to me now (in 2006), I still think something like the Conservation Exchange [...]

(Note: Graph from the February 2006 ASPO newsletter]
The fundamental relationship between current income and savings seems obvious. If you have a lot of savings, then you don’t need to worry as much about current income, because you can draw down your savings at a comfortable pace. In many ways, you could [...]