Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
If I had written it as a Transition Tale in the Transition Handbook, it would have ranked as being even more ridiculous than the Beckhams’ cob retirement house. However, here we are, and Michelle Obama has started to dig up part of the White House lawn and turn it into a vegetable garden.
Britain set to become most populous country in EU
Food and energy shortages will create ‘perfect storm’, says Prof John Beddington
Government borrowing ‘to swell’
Hydropower from old washing machines
‘Biochar’ goes industrial with giant microwaves to lock carbon in charcoal
WSJ: Everyone hates ethanol
Feed-in tariff in Minnesota and Hawaii
Renewable Energy Dividends – REDs
Innovating for a low-carbon age
Minimalist living in Silicon Valley
Jason Bradford: Household and community food security
Maggots as good as gel in leg ulcer treatments
Reuse stores make use of refuse
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
Obamas Prepare to Plant White House Vegetable Garden
Obama Tries to Draw Up an Inclusive Energy Plan
A New Washington Team and a Fresh Game in Russia, Iran and the Caspian
Organic price tags may be hard to swallow
Doomer Dinner Party – Challenge
How Might We Be Fed? Part Two
Sprouting is a great way to produce some of your own food. If you have access to some clean jars, lids with screens, clean water, and appropriate seeds, you can raise your own sprouts.
World faces ‘perfect storm’ of problems by 2030, chief scientist to warn
Klare: The Second Shockwave
Civil War in the United States?,br>
The Economist on victory gardens
Jellyfish sushi: Seafood’s slimy future
Astyk: Eric, farmer
Recession spurs millions of new gardeners
Small farm renaissance
As far back into childhood as I can remember, every morning and every evening I went to the barn to “do chores.” “Chores” on the farm then (and now) meant feeding the chickens and livestock, gathering the eggs, and milking the cows. This work must be done every day come hell or high water—- especially come hell or high water. I did chores even in seminary college— I much preferred being in the barn than in chapel. That’s how it finally dawned on me that the priestly life was not for me, so I can say with all honesty that doing chores guided me to my true place in life.
In any debate there are particular key arguments that are used to undermine the opponent. A debate as heated as that over the importance, or not, of population growth is sure to feature these. It should be clear to readers of my essay published last week that I regard population growth as the core issue in any discussion on sustainability. Many of the arguments used by those who wish to dismiss or lessen the importance of population growth are false, misleading or simply mental tricks allowing their advocates the comfort of self-deception.
