Solutions & sustainability – Nov 1
Rod Dreher: Time for a stiff slug of forced austerity?
Relocalize newsletter: Democracy in action
Waste not, want not
Moving beyond sustainability to environmental effectiveness
Britons dying for green burials
Act: Inspiration
Simpler, greener lifestyle creates wealth, happiness
The Astyks represent a small but growing number of Americans who are paring down and cutting back and, in doing so, finding financial relief and a measure of happiness.
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 31
Follow Cuba’s emissions standard
Sustenance for sustainability
Guardians of the past uncover green lessons for the present
The Most Radical Thing You Can Do
Most “preppers” are men? Ha – Check the kitchen!
Preparedness, at its root, is more than anything about making sure people get dinner. Yes, we can prepare to fight off zombie attacks, build earth shelters in case we lose ours (although odds are most of us will move in with a friend or relative), learn how to handle background radiation – but the first tier problems most of us face – and the ones most people prepare for first, are the ones we’re familiar with – what will we eat? How will we cook it?
Solutions & sustainability – Oct. 30
Staying home as a necessity and a right
Progettazione per zone e settori in ambiente urbano
Creating a Post-Peak Future Worth Living Into
Horticultural Consciousness: Hemenway interview #2
Deep Thought – Oct 29
Time to build a new civilization
The temples of doom
The Most Radical Thing You Can Do
Climate & environment – Oct 29
World is facing a natural resources crisis worse than financial crunch
Thoreau Is Rediscovered as a Climatologist
Elliot Diringer at Pew on Copenhagen climate negotiations (audio)
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 28
As Yard Sales Boom in Hard Times, Sentiment Is First Thing to Go
Moms are taking back the holidays by taking on consumerism
Profile: Majora Carter – nonprofit Sustainable South Bronx
No more Mr and Ms Niceguy – Oct 27
The Rainbow Warriors from the Women’s Institute
Genteel custodian of grand houses turns eco-warrior to save green spaces
Waste watchers: Save cash and the environment
Matthew Simmons has bad news for Vermont
You think the financial crisis unfolded quickly? That’s nothing compared to how fast things could happen with oil. That’s the message Matthew Simmons, chair of the oil investment banking firm Simmons & Company International, delivered last month at a conference on peak oil. Vermont is unprepared for change of that rapidity.
Peak greed
At one time I decided to give greed a chance, immerse myself in it by devoting all of my waking hours to the study of money. If bankers and I were sharing the same floor of Hell, such an obsession couldn’t be all bad. Maybe Hell just needed a makeover. We could spruce it up, refinance it, remodel…
Coping – Oct 24
Final chapter posted in Chris Martenson’s “Crash Course”
Financial permaculture goes viral
Apocalypse, Not! (permaculturalist Toby Hemenway)
Pieces of advice for the new paupers
Hard times have some flirting with survivalism
