The global south – March 13
Mexico: A Collapse Update from Jeff Vail
Chris Nelder on Mexico
Our Friends in The South
Food & Water
United States – March 12
Friedman calls for carbon tax to spark change
Kunstler: Forget about “recovery”
George Will: Americans are overfed but undernourished
Steven Chu, United States Secretary of Energy, on Charlie Rose
Eating Locally – March Soup
Our preferred food source is our own land. We know what goes into, and what comes out of, our little garden plot, and we know how it is handled, processed and stored. We now how to locate and identify wild edible plants – greens, mushrooms, nuts, berries and other fruit.
Food & agriculture – March 10
Michael Pollan Fixes Dinner (Extended Interview)
Vancouver latest municipality to allow urban chickens
Where there’s Muck… the joy of a well aged compost
Nine meals from anarchy?
Solutions & sustainability – March 10
Creating a Home Graywater System
Community as Technology
Foodzoning the Foodshed
The aim is joy
I’ve taken lovely vacations over the years, but the latest one, at an exclusive hideaway we were lucky enough to know about, had to be the best ever. … We could not have enjoyed the weekend just described without a very intimate knowledge of our surroundings.
Biofuels & biochar – March 9
US ethanol producers urge Obama to up ethanol content of motor fuels
Monbiot: Biofuels do far more harm than good
International Biochar Initiative online
100 million new farmers? North Carolina writer calls for agricultural revolution
Peak oil and climate change writers Aaron Newton and Sharon Astyk have written a book called “A Nation of Farmers: Defeating the Food Crisis on American Soil,” which is nothing short of a call to arms for local food proponents.
Visions of change – March 6
Rees’s Thesis
Reimagining Socialism
Together, We Save the Planet
The Revolution Has Already Occurred
Follow Brazil’s Example
Transition towns
Lost Generation
Food & agriculture – March 6
China to plough extra 20% into agricultural production amid fears that climate change will spark food crisis
Should hunters switch to ‘green’ bullets?
Spoiled: Organic and Local Is So 2008
Solutions & sustainability – March 6
Learning Gardening and Energy Saving, Through Coaching and Competition
Mike Antheil at FARE updates the Florida Renewable Energy Dividend (RED) story
Food Deserts and Delivery: Discussions from the Pacific Northwest
Economics – March 5
Job Losses Show Breadth of Recession
A Depression doesn’t have to be Great
Food-backed Local Money
Archdruid Report: The End of Retirement
