blogs that make you think

So, I’ve now been tagged with a second meme. Thankfully it’s another useful one. The Thinking Blogger Award originating from the thinking blog. Steppen Wolf who blogs at the skeptical alchemist tagged me.

Here some blogs that make me think — their authors should consider themselves tagged:

• Sustainable Population — which has the finest blogroll in history (look under “important links”). Example: Policymakers and scholars are discussing ways to sustain affluence in a world of decreasing population. I would rather point to a possibility that decreasing population will bring the potential to boost per capita wealth.
• Growth is Madness! — where you get a thoughtful dose of reality on the most pressing issue of the day (that pressing issue is summed up in the blog’s title). Example: The push for continual economic growth is a serious problem. Such growth, as we know it, is unsustainable. In large part that’s because it has a physical component. From the extraction of substances from the earth, to the production of goods, through their disposal as waste, there is a depletion of resources, emission of pollutants, a build-up of “stuff,” and an accumulation of waste. When these activities are carried out at rates faster than the earth’s capacity to regenerate and absorb, they gradually destroy the ecosystem, our life support system.
• Braless Living LA — where you can pick up some energy from a young, idealistic blogger who cares about people and the planet and writes with a lot of spunk. Example: Ecological footprints are symbols of our level of mindfulness while we are here.
• Stolen Moments — a green Canandian view. Example: In a time when population pressures have become an increasing stress on the environment, there are additional arguments for a vegan diet.
• Café Philos — which has a picture on the its front page of phone booths I may have actually used. Example: Have you noticed there can be a certain emotional pain in seeing the most beautiful things?

Please don’t take the excerpts I’ve given as anything more than a slightly less than random example of these blogs. Follow the links and do some reading.

There are a bunch of other blogs that make me think of course. For this list I chose ones which are stimulating, useful, and that more people should be reading and talking about.

Do see the post that started all this because that writer has much the same attitudes toward memes as I do and describes it in the post.