Deep thought – Feb 9
The Spike and the Peak
The rhythm of rest and excess
Downward Spiral’s Silver Lining: End of Lonely Plastic Culture
Is This The End Of Wealth Creation?
Act: Inspiration
Global – Feb 9
The Icelandic Volcano Erupts
¡Que se vayan todos! – that’s the global backlash talking
Climate Wars
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 9
Transition Network’s ‘Who We Are and What We Do’ Document Available
Adapting In Place: Whether, Why and Wherefore Ought Thou
Buried treasure: Vermonters rediscover root cellars
United States – Feb 8
Amish help neighbors left without electricity
Obama orders new rules to raise energy efficiency
Why shovel-ready infrastructure is wrong
Fight against Big Coal hits Kansas legislature – national repercussions
Building the sustainable economy
The world seeks an alternative to the current disaster of globalisation. If we decided to change our economic system, what can we actually do? How can we create a sustainable economy?
The power of community
Community” is often dismissed as a romantic notion, “harking back a golden age that never existed”. Traditional rural communities tended to be held together by the absence of choice: you were your mother’s daughter or your father’s son, and the range of possible futures – opportunities for travel, education, and employment- were limited.
Deep thought – Feb 6
The Growth Imperative
Sharon Astyk: What’s a Doomer Chick to Do?
James Lovelock interview
Opportunity knocks when it comes to a local food economy
Community-based agriculture has the potential for creating jobs, developing small business entrepreneurship and keeping precious dollars in the community.
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 4
Using Emergence to Take Social Innovation to a Scale
I Just Dropped in to See What Condition My Transition Was In: Part I
Traditions and trends in environmental Judaism
Farms heal – agrotherapy
After farming for most of the last sixteen years in semi-rural Sonoma County, Northern California, and being raised partly on our family farm in Iowa, I have come to understand that agriculture can serve many functions, in addition to producing food, fibers, and beverages. Some farms–especially non-industrial small family farms–are places where working the Earth can be good for body, mind and soul.
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 2
They’re young, they’re green, they’re militant: eco kids re-educating their parents
Life after the apocalypse
New book: “Ten Things Everyone Ought to Know”
Peak oil, the web of debt, & our local future
A new set of high definition videos are now online: Richard Heinberg on peak oil, Thaddeus Owen on permaculture, Ellen Brown on financial collapse, Tim Husdon on the four futures, and Kim Hill on the auto industry crisis, and more.
