The Year in Which I Grow Our Food Pt. 7
Ducks and geese are really low maintenance in comparison to other animals I have cared for. I really just provide them with a home, make sure they have feed when they need it, and leave them alone.
Lützerath bleibt!
On the 14th of January 2023, a large-scale demonstration of around 35,000 people proved that the evicted village of Lützerath (Germany) has reignited the climate movement’s determination.
Review: Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell
I could rhapsodize a great deal more about the fine writing, emotional power and originality of Arboreality, but suffice to say that for connoisseurs of deindustrial fiction, it isn’t to be missed.
Efficient and fragile: Low prices, modern railroading and the toxic Ohio derailment
The toxic Ohio derailment is demonstrating that the drive for efficiency can be extremely dangerous.
Ruminations on losing power and what is appropriate technology
We can’t depend on tech at all if we want to see the future. We depend on this Earth. And no tool is ever going to end that interdependency.
Restoring the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta: Reversing a Century of Colombian Tragedy
If the Ciénaga Grande is going to recover, it needs long-term integrated research and planning, with local community participation and even guardianship, which has a record of success in other local and Indigenous-led areas.
Any Way You Slice It
In many countries rationing of water, food and other essential goods has become a matter of survival for a large share of the population. Their day-to-day experience in sharing resources could hold lessons for those of us in the North once we decide to start bringing consumption in line with what the world can support.
A realistic ‘energy transition’ is to get better at using less of it
My aim is not to discourage people working toward an energy transition, but to insist that we develop a realistic plan for energy descent, rather than insisting on foolish dreams of eternal consumer abundance by means other than fossil fuels.
Seattle and the global: A center of empire
Even as the global continues to powerfully exist here, we can break beyond its mental confines to make a home place rooted in bioregional nature. It requires acts of revolutionary imagination to make that place.
Climate activists and water protectors honor pipeline resister Joye Braun with a national day of action
From sparking the resistance to Keystone XL to erecting the first structure in the Sacred Stone Camp at Standing Rock, Braun was a climate and Indigenous rights movement leader who provided inspiration to thousands and helped train hundreds of people to nonviolently resist pipeline projects.
Can the cow and the deer co-exist?
For sure, the cow and the deer can easily co-exist. On our farm, there is plenty of wild-life co-existing with our small herd of five mother cows. There are deer, elk, boars, fox, voles, fox, the occasional lynx, a huge number of birds including flocks of geese, and cranes.
Paean to the commons
I believe deeply in the commons. I believe it is the only true economic expression of all this interconnected biophysical reality.
