Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Butchering anything is disagreeable work. But if a person is going to eat meat, he can hardly avoid the work just for that reason and not be a hypocrite. And because chickens are the one animal eminently practical for all homesteads (even the smallest), knowing how to butcher them can be a very handy skill to acquire.
Rob Hopkins: Why, for today at least, I’m celebrating Obama’s victory
Lundberg on Obama administration and eco-hope: business as usual with more road building?
Sustainable food and ag folks offer their elevator pitches for Obama
Intellectual Conservative: What is the energy independence of ethanol?
Obama and biofuels – summary
Ethanol: When in doubt, propagandize
The slippery business of palm oil
As the drama of the bursting bubble of Wall St. gives way to a slower, but steady and painful, economic decline, the first and most important question we should ask is “Should we try to blow another bubble, or should we reject bubble culture values for something entirely different?”
Julian Darley: Putting on the brakes
Inside Commodities: Is the Bull Run Over, or Just Taking a Break?
Jeff Rubin: Oil Prices Caused the Current Recession
Michigan’s third peak oil conference of 2008 focuses on the specific challenges and solutions for Michigan and features 45 speakers including Richard Heinberg, Albert Bates, Michael Brownlee, Ellen Hodgeson Brown, Richard Gilbert, Stephanie Mills, Kurt Cobb, and Aaron Wissner. The event is schedule for the November 14 weekend.
Time to go against the grain
Boris Johnson unveils plan to create 2,012 new vegetable gardens in London
Beekeepers protest over hive deaths
I have a hunch that at no previous time in modern history have there been more people getting ready for their long planned – for move to a garden farm than right now. We are at the end of the era of unbelievably wasteful consumption and many people are realizing that the old adage is again appropriate: “Root, hog, or die.”
The following is proposed as a preliminary plan for discussion amongst all those who are willing to acknowledge the reality of our predicament, think beyond the paradigm of the current system, and rationally discuss the fundamental reforms required to avoid catastrophe.
Heinberg: The Food and Farming Transition
A bounty sprouts in the city with MyFarm enterprise
Green prisons farm, recycle to save energy, money
Food Insecurity’s Dirty Secret
Victoria: Call for action as state food security at risk
A world with energy doubled in price That’s the scenario for the year 2020 that 150 people in Addison County, Vermont considered for a day last weekend. The participants’ task was to figure out what they want their world to look like under that scenario, and then figure out how to move in that direction.
I saw a headline in the paper today that said people are beginning to question whether to buy organic food because times are getting tough and they don’t want to spend the money on it. So, okay, let’s go back to eating food grown conventionally. And what will you spend on health care for the problems created by the pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, chemical fertilizers, hormones, and genetically altered and denatured food that results from that way of farming?
