Solutions & sustainability – May 15
Juneau cuts electricity use 30% in weeks
School not always greener (but it could be)
Sustainability for competitive advantage
If your appliances are avocado, they probably aren’t green
Act: Inspiration
Green industry hub rises from Rust Belt ruins
Innovators are making the Pittsburgh region an eco-showcase of the benefits of going green and bringing new hope to the economically depressed Rust Belt region. (Highly recommended. Excerpts – audio and video available)
The post-oil novel: a celebration!
The post-oil novel began as a little-known aberration within the speculative fiction genre. But it’s now hitting bestseller lists, generating comment in major papers, and garnering increasing acceptance from the mainstream of speculative fiction. Frank Kaminski takes a spirited, authoritative look at this blossoming subgenre
What organic homesteading is all about
The beauty of the organic homestead is that “work” is self-willed, not commanded from on high or dictated by economic necessity. “Work” becomes creative, individualistic, done out of love, not someone else’s sense of duty.
Food & agriculture – May 10
Dharma in the dirt
Global food crisis
How potatoes could save the world
Food security expert: broken food system
Food fears (Vancouver)
Community solutions – May 10
Many hands make light work of saving energy
Community gardens grow communities
Biodegradable home products, ready to rot
Building an ecologically sensible home
Deep thought – May 9
Runaway consumerism explains the Fermi Paradox
Gin, television and social surplus
12-Stepping our way to Armageddon
Outposts – May 9
Peak oil task force for Bellingham, Wash.
‘Peak oil’ is here. Now what? (R.I.)
Dream of cohesive Cascadia never dies
Food & agriculture – May 8
Cost of food wreaking havoc on Central America
Burma cyclone fuels rice price increase
Catastrophe may leave Burma unable to feed itself
Romanian farmland prices set to triple
Liberalizing food trade to death
Urban farmers’ crops go from vacant lot to market
Oil-aholics Anonymous: a 12-step program
1. We became aware of the extent to which our present lifestyle is deeply dependent on non-renewable fossil fuels and that these will run out.
2. We came to believe that only by giving up fossil fuels and all the modes that require them, do we have the chance of long term sustainable survival and eventually to thrive in harmony with nature.
Food & agriculture – May 6
‘Zero mile diet’ blooms in BC – gardening boom
City neighborhoods loss of supermarkets
Billions at risk from wheat super-blight
World food crisis: sources and solutions
The world’s food insecurity – echoes of 70s
Survival – May 6
BBC: Do you need to stock up the bunker?
Natural born survivors
Why are the mean girls picking on World Made By Hand?
