Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
‘Wild Blessings’: Wendell Berry’s passions, reframed (new play)
Second edition of Gaia’s Garden by Toby Hemenway (home-scale permaculture)
The many faces of relocalization
Real world energy decisions (personal experiences)
Powerdown Toolkit #6: Deconstructing Dinner
Farmers Face Growing Climate Change Dilemma: Scientist
Forging a Hot Link to the Farmer Who Grows the Food
Why the White House garden matters
A growing interest at Statehouse
How can we continue feeding humanity in a future of declining resources and environmental crisis? This 41-page report explores the growing vulnerabilities of the global food system, and the steps needed to transition to a post-carbon food system.
Rise In Frugality Leads To Drop In Trash Collection
SXSW FILM: Garbage Dreams
Large agriculture operations add billions to our economy but what price are we paying?
A Farm for the Future
Planning for peak oil
Why the foodie press needs to do better work on seafood
Most Americans are dis-connected from everything essential for survival. We have lost meaningful connections with the sources of our water, food, shelter, clothing, with our fellow humans in community, with those we love, with The Mystery of Life. No wonder we feel dis-eased!
Green shoots
‘Food hub’ plan to boost local producers
Study Finds Eating Red Meat Contributes to Risk of Early Death
Is a Food Revolution Now in Season?
Food, class, and the new, new agrarianism
Cool Cuisine and Fresh Food
As the globalized economy withers – never to return in its present form in my view – we are bereft of that dense network of local shopowners, brokers of all kinds of goods, hometown bankers, small equipment repairmen who can restore broken goods to useful work and so many others whom we will be needing in the future that is now unfolding.
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
