What is our relationship towards the environment and why should we care about it?
In the way we have come to use the automobile, I think we have lost many things - clean air, health, nature, green spaces, and a little bit of our soul. This is my call for us to banish mass private ownership of automobiles from our cities.
We need a change in our culture to enable us to live in an environmentally attuned way, here are my ideas on how we need to change
Here are some of the changes we all need to make in our lives to stop being footsoldiers in the war against the natural world
Introduction We exist within an evolutionary reality; it is hard to overstate the importance of this fact. We must understand what we are to help us become what we can be. Every facet of the being that is comprehending these words is the result of billions of years of the evolutionary process. You are the direct result of a "successful" line of ancestors stretching back at least a billion years, a line that started out with the simplest possible organisms, and now comes to you: an individual capable of intricate creation. This is not to say there was necessarily a...
The animals in the human food system are one of the major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. A lot of different studies have come up with different figures as to what percentage of emissions are attributable to livestock; here I discuss them in the context of the world and Australia specifically.
In wildness is the preservation of the world
Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay
The authors of the book are Canadians, who have the idea of travelling around the US and looking at how the car dominates economic and social life. They echo many of the experiences I have in Australia living without a car. They also give a wealth of information about the...