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Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Michael Pollan: The modern hunter-gatherer /
California makes itself the most efficient place in North America /
Home builders turning green /
Farm goes for economic, ecological diversity /
US, African scientists seek biotech answer to hunger (sorghum)
How horticulture and related fields (such as urban forestry) might evolve to assist the transition to an economy without cheap oil.
What I eat for breakfast connects me to the planet, deep into its past with the fossilized remains of plants and animals which are now fuel, as well as into its future, when these non-renewable resources will likely be in scant supply.
If the price of oil shot to $100 a barrel tomorrow, which American cities would be able to survive economically?
Can a bush solve rural energy needs? /
The role of underutilized plants in preventative medicine, nutrition and sustainability /
Classes: prepare for peak oil /
Green blogs: The Green revolution moves online /
The dark secrets of the organic-food movement /
Green is green ($) /
Statue of Liberty to go all ‘green’ power
To hear urban visionary Richard Register tell it, the city of the future will look more like the Hanging Gardens of Babylon than like the crime-ridden, blighted expanse often referred to as the inner-city.
UN warns of worst mass extinctions for 65m years /
Study says U.S. companies lag on global warming /
Seattle cools down global warming /
New USGS report on managing water in the western U.S. /
Farms ‘big threat’ to fresh water /
In a thirsty world, Canada comes up empty /
Governments ‘must meet water need’
Interview: Former GOP Strategist Kevin Phillips (“American Theocracy”) /
CNN’s “We Were Warned”: the bright side /
Jitters about energy, debt and the housing market /
Anarchism and the peak oil argument /
Food, sustainability, and the environmentalists /
Investments based on peak oil? – yes
Post-peak: The change starts with us (energy literacy) /
Latest CSIRO newsletter focuses on personal actions /
In memory of Carla Emery (“The Encyclopedia of Country Living”) /
Brooks once a center of wind power industry /
Why lawns?
In Scott Yates’ article of March 3 titled “Mr. Woolsey: ‘We can replace half the country’s gasoline’ ” Mr. Woolsey professes that one way to wean ourselves off of Middle Eastern oil is by growing biofuels and increasing fuel economy standards. He thinks this will “…keep its (America’s) energy future simple.”
Car sharing is the new consumer model /
Community farming in LA: neoliberalism at the garden gate /
Food miles don’t go the distance /
Auto design challenge: 250 MPG equals $25 million from the X Foundation /
In search of ethical gladrags (“slow clothes” movement)
Today’s mounting social and ecological crises demand responses that are broad, deep, and strategic. Given the widespread destruction wrought by globalisation, it seems clear that the most powerful solutions will involve a fundamental change in direction – towards localizing rather than globalising economic activity. In fact, ‘going local’ may be the single most effective thing we can do.
