Food & agriculture – Nov 8
•Bee business picking up in Berlin •Yard times: Denver’s super-local veggie box •Double dose of pesticide poses new danger for bumblebees •Did California Voters Defeat the Food Movement Along With Prop. 37?
Year: 2012
Re-creating eelgrass beds in the Seto Inland Sea
From north to south, the long coastline of Japan cultivates diverse local lifestyles reflecting unique geographic conditions. People live in harmony with the sea by combining their traditional wisdom with scientific knowledge.
deconstructing the beast
We like to think, as Transitioners, we are classless, but we are not…We are constructed socially to fit into tiers. No matter what class we are born into, there are always people above us and people below us. And every transaction we make or thought we have is tempered by our conditioning: to keep ourselves on that rung, or climb the ladder, and for that we have to push others down. Them, Her, that district, those people.
Oil – Nov 8
•Meet the man the oil industry goes to for a voice of gravitas in the US election •Iran MPs draft law to cut oil exports by a third •Balance of power shifts in changing world of oil •Federal scientists muzzled on oilsands •Oil lobby and Koch-backed groups spent $270m on anti-Obama ads
Peak oil notes – Nov 8
A mid weekly update.
Student Coops: the cutting edge of the new economy
While pundits debated failing macro-economic strategies in the media frenzy surrounding election day, students at NASCO Institute shared proven community-driven economic solutions, from coops to alternative currencies.
Slow Democracy; Local investing; and VBSR’s Fall Conference
Vermonter Susan Clark has co-authored the new book, Slow Democracy: Rediscovering Community, Bringing Decision Making Back Home, Eric Becker is Chief Investment Officer at Clean Yield Asset Management in Norwich, on how to invest your money in local businesses, and how local businesses can attract local investment, and VBSR’s Scott Buckingham previewed next week’s VBSR conference.
The Post-American Future
The twilight of America’s global empire, the theme of most of a year of posts on The Archdruid Report, is in a real sense simply one more roadbump along the route of the Long Descent. Still, the lessons of history suggest that some such implosion waits in the near future, no matter how frantically today’s politicians insist that the status quo will be fixed in place forever. The archdruid explains…
Review: Starvation Ridge by Risa Stephanie Bear
What geographical area offers the best chance of survival during the coming oil shortage?
Deep thought – Nov 7
•Superstorm Sandy—a People’s Shock? •Building a new environmentalism •Reasons why climate change disasters might not increase concern about climate change
Energy – Nov 7
•Big Coal in big trouble as coal production costs rise •Obama, Romney avoid hard truths about energy •Japan kicks off winter energy-saving campaign •Full Text: China’s Energy Policy 2012
Lima beans into November
Bad weather almost always brings a few good results, something to hang on to in the time of adversity.
