Sustainability vs. Resilience
Resilience thinking is a complement to sustainability, not a substitute.
Act: Inspiration
What Does a Post-Growth Economy Look Like?
No respectable person in American politics dares to question the virtue of economic growth even though it is increasingly clear that life on Earth will collapse if current patterns of extraction and consumption continue. So what is the responsible path forward?
Focusing on Food Miles is a Mistake
While I’m all for reducing the energy demands associated with food production, I think the singular attention given to the issue of food miles is misguided, and I’ll use this post to explain why.
Resilience Food Growing: A Multibook Review
A look at four books which take different approaches to creating resilient food growing models.
Farming art for change
Futurefarmers is a diverse group of practitioners: artists, researchers, designers, architects, scientists and farmers.
The Birth of a Freestore
We discussed the idea of a FreeStore several times…Could we provide lived, joyful experiences of alternatives for those not involved in the work of Transition?
Food prairie
Just as a food forest is a fusion of garden, orchard and woodland, so the food prairie is a fusion of garden, field, and grassland.
Noelle Gaberman — A life of alpaca artistry
On the edge of the Laguna Watershed in Sonoma County, at the end of a narrow gravel road, lies a small homestead developed by two families with a commitment to producing food and fiber in an atmosphere that weaves together aestheticism, function and fun.
We want people to change their minds
We used to think investing in fossil fuel was okay, but the new science has convinced us, and we don’t think that way any longer.
The End of Sustainability
The time has come for us to collectively reexamine — and ultimately move past — the concept of sustainability.
Why Energy?
Perhaps the biggest reason why I focus on energy is that it mediates all biophysical transformations. Without an all-important energy conversion, nothing happens.
Double Jeopardy: Thousands of fracked gas wells over an active coal mine
Greene County is the second largest coal producing county in the country and is also home to thousands of gas wells. The people are the subjects of a grand energy experiment.
