Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
There is a severe disconnect between our society today and the realities of the food chain. Many people no longer understand that nature is a magnificent banquet table around which sit all forms of life killing and eating each other.
Investors warm to water as shortages mount
A thirsty planet looks for solutions
On World Water Day, a mighty global thirst
Climate change deepens world water crisis
They paved paradise and put up … a power source
Banana methane powered cars, pig poo power
Salt could shake up world energy supply
Tim Flannery talks bio char and why we need to move into the renewable age
Russia sets new fertiliser export tariffs
Food miles skepticism
The local grain revolution
Deconstructing dinner in our schools
Holmgren and permaculture: Backyard answer to energy crisis
Rosemary’s gardens: permaculture and nutritional gardens in Cambodia
Hope dances eternal for media maven
How shipping containers shortened the lifespan of petro-civilization
Is peak oil theory only for fascists?
“Energy Descent Pathways” now online
Simmons: Key investment questions For 2008+
Sydney must prepare now for peak oil
Sharon Astyk: Dinner, and whether you’ll be getting any, to 2050
Kunstleriana
Energy, water demands are on collision course
Concerns over Kenya’s food security
Shortages of energy, food worry Pakistanis
Residents stung by high cost of utilities
NYT: Costs surge for stocking the pantry
Clotheslines rule
Industry scrambles to find a ‘greener’ concrete
Open 28 hours
Sanitation goals slip; nature can help
Warning of world phosphate shortage
Heinberg’s garden
Edible landscape likely to become a U.S. paradigm
If you eat more than one chemically grown watermelon you will get diarrhea, we learned from the organic watermelon farmer. Fourteen such melons had killed an elephant, he added.
How to grow your own wheat
So, you want to be a farmer?
Homegrown way to address climate change
Australia’s food bowl lies empty
Too much discussion about responding to peak oil has focused on finding a single solution to the complex predicament we face. Start with the recognition that we don’t have any models for a sustainable technic society to work from, and a more flexible (and arguably more successful) strategy comes within reach.
