Baby Trees on the Winter Solstice
I planted them with the hope
That my foolish culture will soon desist in its
Suicidal efforts to sever the ties
Between humans and the Earth
Society
Farewell to the Year
And so I come to my final blog post of 2016, and what a year it’s been. I’ve been asked by Dark Mountain to write a retrospective of it, which I hope will be up on their website soon. I’ll be offering some thoughts on the larger events of the world in that post, so here I’m mostly just going to offer a few nuggets focused on my specific theme of small-scale farming, and its future.
A Season of Consequences
One of the many advantages of being a Druid is that you get to open your holiday presents four days early.
Growthism: Part 2
One of the notable features of Growthism is the way it takes growth to be entirely normal and, at the same time, understands it as the very recent triumph of humanity over the awful conditions it faced for the first two hundred thousand years of its existence as a species.
Appreciating Toby Hemenway 1952-2016
It’s with much sadness that I inform our readers of the passing of one of the world’s great permaculture writers and teachers. The author of Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture and The Permaculture City: Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience, Toby Hemenway.
2016: Year of the Serpent
2016, in the West, feels like the year the exiled serpent returned.
Towards the Tipping Point: Understanding Trump in a Larger Historical Context
Every day, the news seems only to get worse.
Cities in Transition
CommonsPolis— a civil society initiative to create dialogue between progressive municipalist movements and city governments, and European citizens — held an encounter described as “a common space for exchange; cities in transition and citizen struggles” in Paris on November 24, 2016…
Beyond Trump: The Path to Real Change
This webinar serves as a hopeful antidote to the paralysis felt by many following the election of Donald Trump as the 45th US President.
There is only One Culture: Bringing Back Science into the Fold of Humanism
If we want to save the world, we don’t need gadgetry, we need to be what we are: human beings.
Patterns of Commoning: A Journey Through Time to the Irrigation System in Valais, Switzerland
In Valais, Switzerland, a network of “artificial canals” was rediscovered in the 1980s.
Why the Peak Oil Movement Failed
I’m sorry to say that the phrase “peak oil,” familiar and convenient as it is, probably has to go.
