Stuart Jeanne Bramhall

Dr. Stuart Bramhall is an American child and adolescent psychiatrist and political refugee in New Zealand. Her works include a young adult novel The Battle for Tomorrow about a 16 year old girl who participates in the blockade and occupation of the US Capitol and a memoir, The Most Revolutionary Act: Memoir of an American Refugee. - See more at: http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/06/upcycling-saving-the-planet-by-design/#sthash.JakLUdvK.dpuf

The New Farmer’s Almanac

By Stuart Jeanne Bramhall, Dissident Voice

Like the Old Farmer’s Almanac, the New Farmer’s Almanac offers long range weather forecasts, full moon dates, sunrise and sunset times, best planting dates, crop advice, tides tables, riddles, games, recipes, songs, and folk wisdom.

April 24, 2014

Those Fracking Lies

By Stuart Jeanne Bramhall, Dissident Voice

A review of Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future by Richard Heinberg.

April 21, 2014

Zero Waste: Closer than You Think

By Stuart Jeanne Bramhall, Dissident Voice

The Zero Waste Solution: Untrashing the Planet One Community at a Time by Paul Connett (Chelsea Green 2013) is about 100% waste recovery and reuse, the new gold standard in recycling.

March 31, 2014

Bringing decision making back home

By Stuart Jeanne Bramhall, Dissident Voice

Clark and Teachout see three alarming trends occurring in industrial society. Both public resources and governance decisions are moving towards increasing centralization and privatization.

December 12, 2013

How Whales Become Hazardous Waste

By Stuart Jeanne Bramhall, Dissident Voice

The main theme of a new documentary, Trashed: No Place for Waste...is the major health danger posed by the 7 billion tons of garbage we discard every year.

September 19, 2013

A Roadmap to Redesigning Civilization

By Stuart Jeanne Bramhall, Dissident Voice

Toby Hemenway, host of the video Redesigning Civilization — with Permaculture, defines permaculture as a branch of ecological design that employs natural ecosystems as a model.

September 2, 2013

Collapse: Revisiting the Adam and Eve Myth

By Stuart Jeanne Bramhall, The Most Revolutionary Act

In fact, homo sapiens hasn’t evolved culturally or intellectually since our ancestors failed to confront resource scarcity in a way conducive to their survival.

August 26, 2013

Upcycling: Saving the Planet By Design

By Stuart Jeanne Bramhall, Dissident Voice

A fundamental precept of C2C design is its emphasis on biomimicry, i.e. copying the genius of nature’s design principles.

June 17, 2013