Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
In the vast and traumatic mess that we are facing, I’m seeing some surprising signs of hope – not that we’ll magically reshape our society into the renewable paradise a lot of us would like to see, but that people are well, not acting like complete idiots – that they are responding to things fairly appropriately, even wisely sometimes.
Alex Steffen: Where We Are And Where We’re Going
Reality Report: Bill McKibben
The Effect of Natural Gradients on the Net Energy Profits from Corn Ethanol
Kissinger: The Chance for a New World Order
Steven Chu Eases Up on the Gas Price Pedal
Greening the stimulus
Produce will sail into Ballard
Book Review: Permaculture, a beginner’s guide
Going Amish: The Decision
Today Post Carbon Institute announced an agreement with EnergyBulletin.net to formally adopt the site as a core Institute program.
At the time when the national banking fraternity was on its knees in Washington, begging for money, news all over the media reported that Hometown Heritage bank in Lancaster County, Pa., was having its best year ever. Hometown Heritage may be the only bank in the world, surely one of the few, that has drive-by window service designed to accommodate horses and buggies. Some 95% of the bank’s customers are Amish farmers. The banker, Bill O’Brien, says that he has not lost a penny on them in 20 years.
Artists reimagine poster art of the Great Depression
Vermont group looks at life without oil
In New York, no crisis for niche manufacturers
Happiness grows out of tiny parks, not huge TVs
As a practical matter, failing at capitalism does not automatically make you socialist, no more than failing at marriage automatically make you gay.
Why you should never take me Christmas shopping
A generation adjusts as teens confront a harsh economy
The masters of the universe who cannot live with failure
Billions face food shortages, study warns
Global warming will be a killer for agriculture
Land sharing is a new trend
The role of home gardens in feeding the world & sequestering carbon
Sustainable studying
Wondermentalist/Matt Harvey Telling Transition Tales
Introduction to EntropyPawsed – Adventures In Sustainable Living
When It Comes to Cash, A Thai Village Says, ‘Baht, Humbug!’
Local Currencies Grow During Economic Recession
The Crisis Of ’08 Reading List
