A Day in the Life – Part 2
The continuing saga of a day in a life that might not be too far away… a life in a world of expensive energy and a contracting economy… a life filled with adjustments, sacrifices, and unexpected pleasures.
Act: Inspiration
Food & agriculture – June 5
Phosphorus Famine: The Threat to Our Food Supply
Revealed: The Bid to Corner World’s Bluefin Tuna Market
Bob Shaw: Have you hugged your bag of NPK and S today?
Community Kitchens
Fighting for the right to grow food in L.A.
Frugal foods
Mike Ruppert reviews Carolyn Baker’s “Sacred Demise”
In the rare instances where I come across a book that is a feast for the mind and soul I wrestle with it as with a lover. Pages get dog-eared, the pen comes out and notes appear all over. Great passages are underlined. There are coffee and wine stains. This marks my affair with a great book. “Sacred Demise” is the first such book I have read in many years.
A guide for the perplexed, bothered, bewildered and outright resentful folks hitched to a wanna-be farmer
Now I realize that some of you will look at any advice of mine on this subject with skepticism – after all, you may even blame me (quite correctly, perhaps), for your loved one’s going bonkers and talking about sheep and nut trees all the time. And yet, I do feel your pain. Or rather, my husband does, and he’s happy to tell me all about what it is like to look over at the person you love and wonder why on earth she’s babbling about soil.
Portland Spaces: Collectively Green
The Bouwes house is part of a wave of forward-thinking building that is redefining Cully, a sleepy and sometimes forgotten northeast Portland neighborhood, as a miniature hotbed of sustainable construction…At the same time, and not coincidentally, Cully is in the grip of a social lifestyle revolution of middle-class, multigenerational families creating a new breed of society. At the moment, that revolution is playing out in the Bouweses’ dining room.
Solutions & sustainability – June 2
When caring is kept in the family
How retiring has made me more resourceful
Complementary Currencies Are Ushering In a Vibrant Local Economy
What’s Wrong with a 30-Hour Work Week?
Media & persuasion – June 2
Communicating Transition
Empathy Marketing 101
Miller-McCune Receives Utne Independent Press Award
A K-5 Curriculum for Students in the Post-Carbon Era
Will education be important in the post-carbon era? What will need to be taught? What skills need to be acquired? We hope to provide one alternative for educating students, after the fall of empire.
On a tightrope without a net
The sum total of today’s news adds up to “the continuing story of the destruction of our protective safety nets.” GM’s bankruptcy is the lead, of course, one that constitutes an utter disaster for millions of people … Then there’s California
Reinventing the informal economy
The single most significant project of the next few decades will not be dealing with “peak oil” or “climate change” or “financial crisis” – or rather, it will be all of them. Instead, it will be rebuilding the informal economies.
Housecleaning
Let’s re-do the earth, shall we?
You see, there’s this problem with oil
and the worms are dying.
A Day in the Life – Part 1
In June, we wake up at 5 am when the sun rises. It’s important to get our outside work done before the heat of the day. Since we can’t afford A/C, we try to take siestas, or at least not move much, from 11 to 3. The ceiling fans help, and we’ve found that our bodies are getting used to the absence of climate control. I’ve seen a lot of lovely sunrises in the past few years from getting up at the crack of dawn.
