Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Janaia Donaldson Kris Holstrom’s off-grid permaculture farm at 9000 feet high is living proof that food can be grown nearly anywhere. Managing with a very short growing season and water constraints, she and her interns have created magic. Tour the sun-warmed, insulated greenhouse where greens are grown year-round.
As a peak-oil/climate-aware high school teacher, I try to tell the kids the truth about what’s coming. I don’t see the point in lying to them about our possible futures. And I think maybe it’s time for everybody to just start telling the truth. …And then we need to get down to work. …But first the truth.
Right now, on two different fronts, political progressives face a horrible choice: Accept a severely compromised political agreement or stick to their guns and run the risk of getting nothing. Sure, this is a recurring question for activists and advocates of all stripes but—unlike the so-called “death tax”—in these two cases the question really is a matter of life or death.
“as mankind proceeded to get bigger and bigger we silently crossed a threshold”
Transition’s objectives of having a positive impact on social justice is implicit, rather than explicit, and I understand why some people don’t see it straightaway – hell, sometimes it feels hidden even to me. It’s a familiar pattern – I witness and feel another being’s pain at our unthinkingly consumptive patterns of behaviour, I start to beat myself up about not doing more, and then eventually apply some intellectual recognition of the benefits an ubiquitous fabric of transitioned communities will bring to these all-too-familiar horror stories…
Why Britain faces a bleak future of food shortages
-Sinking Feelings About Storing Carbon Emissions on the Farm
-California’s Troubled Waters
-L.A. cooperative provides communities with produce
-Farmers Reclaim Power!
-Free lunches handed out to highlight food waste
-Setting the Table (report)
Al Gore’s well-intentioned challenge that we produce “100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years” represents a widely held delusion that we can’t afford to harbor.
The signs up all over the airport and various places elsewhere in town are calling it Hopenhagen, but everybody I know is calling it Cop-enhagen, which seems far more appropriate. The international media have been giving this lots of coverage, and rightly so.
-This is bigger than climate change. It is a battle to redefine humanity
-Oil sands emissions polluting waterways, study finds
-Brown offers £1.2bn in a bid to break climate deadlock
-A Second Life For Orbiting Carbon Observatory?
-Sunspots do not cause climate change, say scientists
-Cooling the Asphalt Jungle
-‘At this rate, Copenhagen will be a disaster’
-Damning New Evidence Raises Concerns About Threats to New York’s Water From Gas Drilling
-Filmmaker felt “Haynesville” energy
-New breed strikes lucky at Iraq oil auction
-Big Oil Seen in ‘Race to the Altar’ After Exxon Deal (Update1)
From modest beginnings as a permaculture class project at a college in Kinsale, Ireland, the Transition movement has spread its message of community resilience and low-carbon living around the world.
Three weeks ago the US Government Accountability Office released a 50-page analysis of the nexus between biofuel production and water resources.
