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Couchsurfing with my soapbox

My recent foray to Wisconsin and Michigan had me staying five different homes, hence sleeping in five different beds and eating at many different tables. It was quite an exciting adventure, spent with wide-awake people, and I hope to repeat…

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I am not Troy Davis

by Anonymous On the street yesterday in my city I saw signs, held by people of many races, economic backgrounds and political affiliations, that said "Not In My Name" and "I Am Troy Davis". I know, without a doubt, that…

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Who’s the doomer?

by Kathy Cumbee (bio here, at her first essay for Nature Bats Last) How many of us have been told at one time or another that we are doomers? I was thinking about that and, although it might be correct…

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Lessons of history

by Kevin Moore The most important lesson of history is that the lessons of history are not learned. The First World War was the first grand-scale industrial war in which millions of men and women died as a consequence of…

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Brace for impact

Famed energy scholar Richard Heinberg is extremely conservative with his estimates, and he has updated his forecast. Whereas in spring 2009 he was predicting the industrial age would run until 2014 or perhaps even 2016, he's changed his tune. Radically.…

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