Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Meat must be rationed to four portions a week, says report on climate change
Real food makes a comeback: You may now kiss your local farmer
Farming interns sow their sustainable oats
Feast to celebrate the traditional harvest on the Vancouver coast
Whether you have an old farm tractor or a new garden tractor, consider this partial listing of PTO-driven tools it can power: mowers, tillers, binders, seed harvesters, saws, hedge trimmers, electric generators… By using your tractor fully as a power source, you save the cost of all the motors these tools would individually require.
Why are so few peak oil authors women? There’s been much debate about this, and no one has yet arrived at a definitive answer. But whatever the reason, Sharon Astyk has established herself as a true rarity within the peak oil community by virtue of being a woman who has chosen to write about peak oil. The perspective that she offers is thus both uncommon and vital.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has earnestly explained this past week that bad lending practices are the No. 1 cause of the collapse of the U.S. financial system. What would he prefer to have as the primary cause of the collapse of the U.S. financial system?
Of pipelines and the future
Here comes $500 oil – Matt Simmons in Fortune Magazine
Will the price of oil put a brake on globalisation?
If you want a pat answer to what has caused the financial crisis that is reverberating around the world, and now threatening the derivatives market, we’ve got one. Nearly everyone – in the mainstream media and outside it, tells the same story – that the crisis was caused by the unravelling of the housing market, particularly the US housing market. And if you ask what’s behind that, well, we’re told there was a bubble. And if you ask what was behind the bursting of the bubble, well…;it is turtles all the way down.
I’m going to suggest that if you peel off the layers of the financial crisis, we’re going to find some pretty basic things…
Urban farmer’s work honored
UN to buy emergency food stocks from poorer farmers
Food Labels: Organic? Fair Trade? Certified Humane? What Does it All Mean?
Ban near on diverting water from Great Lakes
Peter Gleick: Deal with the water crisis now
Running dry
Earth Democracy – notes on Vandana Shiva
The old future’s gone (audio)
Ordinary human poverty
New system could help avert collapse of fisheries
Peak climate (audio) Part 1 is Dr. Peter Ward on past extinctions & violent climate change, Part 2 is Julian Darley, founder of the Post Carbon Institute, on how to live past the energy crisis
Isle of plenty
Surrounded by shade trees and gardens, about 200 people, a surprising number for such a rural setting, stood around in little knots talking spiritedly about subjects that all came under the heading of Home Economics: local food; natural medicine; home-based alternative energy; home birthing; home schooling, even, get this, home churching.
Instead of eating to diet, they’re eating to enjoy
US university campuses ban cafeteria trays in effort to go green
Australian farmers go green as petrol prices rise
Plants in forest emit aspirin chemical to deal with stress
An unlikely marriage: organic farmers and genetic engineering
