Coppice!
What is coppicing? A lot of people are not familiar with this practice which has been employed for thousands of years in Britain and other temperate regions, so an explanation is in order.
Act: Inspiration
Can earth building scale up to the mainstream? – ClayWorks and clay plasters
Over the next 2 days we’ll be looking at 2 aspects of earth construction, cob and clay plasters, and their potential for scaling up.
Charting Collapseniks
A ferment in the environmental movement, brewing for many years, has now bubbled up into the blogosphere. We are dipping our ladle in here to take a little taste of it, even though we are quite certain it is not done fermenting.
How a Fruit and Vegetable Auction in Rural Ohio Helps Appalachian Farmers Thrive
What Rapposelli refers to as "real food" is becoming more of an "everyday thing" in Morgan County, according to auction regular Mary VanHorn.
The Sharing Gardens
A Sharing Garden differs from the usual community garden in that it is one large plot, shared by all, instead of many separate ones rented by individuals.
Economic Descent, hopefully with Skillful Means
In case I don’t use sufficiently ‘skillful means,’ please let me begin with stating: I am not advocating for intentionally creating an economic crash.
Holmgren’s ‘Crash on Demand’: be careful what you wish for
It is a rare occurence that I disagree with David Holmgren. But while there is much insight in his most recent paper, Crash on Demand, it also raises many questions and issues that I’d like to explore here. I am troubled by his conclusions, and although I understand the logic behind them, I fear that they could prove a dangerous route to go down if left unchallenged.
Postcards from a horizontal world
The greatest problem we have is that we can’t imagine any alternative. And that is the challenge: to invent, create and think as if we were living just after the collapse, if there is a collapse of capitalism, and how we will organize.
Keeping Warm in the Deep Freeze
Consider, then, that people lived for thousands of years in wintry lands without a thermostat to crank, or without any modern fuel or technology, and obviously did not all freeze to death – nor were they even necessarily uncomfortable.
The Wheels on the Farmstand Go Round and Round: Arcadia’s Mobile Market
Pamela Hess, executive director of the Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture, affectionately refers to the organization’s Mobile Market, a 28-foot rolling farmstand, as a “big crazy hippie bus.”
Doria Robinson on scaling up community resilience in the shadow of Chevron
How can you even think about creating community resilience in a neighbourhood that suffers from poverty, gangs and guns, and which has, at its centre, a huge Chevron refinery which last year exploded, resulting in 15,000 people seeking hospital treatement of breathing difficulties? That’s what Doria does, and she does it with humour, passion, and a fire in her belly.
A Whole New Cloth: Politics and the Fashion System
You probably need to be naked to read this paragraph with a clear conscience.
