The Energy Return on Energy Invested of US Food Production
In this article I apply the idea of energy return on energy invested to food production in the United States, and discuss the relevance of energy efficiency to the local food movement.
Act: Inspiration
Boulder Gains Momentum in Fight for Green Public Utility
Local campaign seeks to hold back corporate efforts to undo election results
Inside the California Food Revolution
Daily menus, open kitchens, and women chefs may seem commonplace in today’s restaurants, but 40 years ago they were downright radical.
Sustainable farming mania is frustrating me
Am I the only office guy in America who spends his leisure time reading into the benefits of no-till agriculture or how cows can improve the land by “mobbing, mowing and moving” over a pasture?
Overcoming ‘Overburden’: The Climate Crisis and a Unified Left Agenda
It feels like this could be the beginning of the fight back we have all been waiting for, the one that will chase Harper from power and restore the power of working people in Canada.
Trojan Horses, Recipes, and Permaculture
What was it that made Transition so comprehensible, exciting, and respectable, while permaculture seemed diffuse, slow-growing, and smelling a bit of patchouli oil?
The New Economy in 20 Enterprises report released!
"Welcome to the UK’s top twenty ‘Transition oriented’ social enterprises."
Cultivating Values on the College Farm, or, Revisionist History Has No Future
So why did a small college going the extra mile to be humane and sustainable face an orchestrated avalanche of wrath when it planned to slaughter two of its admittedly iconic oxen?
Kick Start Change with NWEI’s 2013 EcoChallenge!
At Northwest Earth Institute, we often hear from people who are looking for ways to live more sustainably—in their local communities, on college campuses, within faith communities, and at work.
Involving others: from toolkit to ethos for a different kind of democracy
Authority is a capacity to inspire trust. This is what marks a participative inquiry apart from the liberal models which consult others, but never fully recognise, nor invite, their intelligence.
The Wealth of the Commons: Review
This book’s central theme is the idea that existing commons provide a structural framework which can and should provide the basis for our future.
An interview with Nafeez Ahmed: “This is an unprecedented opportunity”
One of the most illuminating voices in the British media at the moment is Nafeez Ahmed, who has been regularly writing about peak oil, climate change, geopolitics and how they all overlap…
