Food & agriculture – Mar 26
A Farm for the Future
Planning for peak oil
Why the foodie press needs to do better work on seafood
Staff
Peak oil & supplies – Mar 25
Big new report from McKinsey: “Averting the next energy crisis: The demand challenge”
The Next Five Years–Peak Lite and the Current Oil Picture
Natural Gas, Suddenly Abundant, Is Cheaper
Biofuels & biochar – Mar 25
Monbiot blasts biochar
Lovelock replies to Monbiot on biochar
Economic Recovery May Rekindle Food/Fuel Debate
Shell Dialogues webchat – biofuels
EntropyPawsed Perspective on Health & Dis-ease
Most Americans are dis-connected from everything essential for survival. We have lost meaningful connections with the sources of our water, food, shelter, clothing, with our fellow humans in community, with those we love, with The Mystery of Life. No wonder we feel dis-eased!
United States & Canada – Mar 24
A Recession Only Steinbeck Could Love
Full Commanding Denial
The Big Takeover
“Climate Change ‘Big Priority’ For Energy Commission Chief”
Food & agriculture – Mar 24
Green shoots
‘Food hub’ plan to boost local producers
Study Finds Eating Red Meat Contributes to Risk of Early Death
Is a Food Revolution Now in Season?
Food, class, and the new, new agrarianism
Cool Cuisine and Fresh Food
Deep thought – Mar 24
Perfect storm of environmental and economic collapse closer than you think
Social effects of inequality have profound implications
The Three Bears & The Great Transition
Dr Robert Costanza on ecological economics
The Next Ten Years: What it Will Look Like
Transport – Mar 24
Cycling enthusiasts turn their hobby into a vocation by training as bike mechanics
Is the world’s cheapest car on the road to ruin?
Cars were a bubble” – General Motors
Water & environment – Mar 24
Coping in a World of “Peak Water”
Lack of water still kills
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Becomes Water War’s Front Line
The return of the middleman
As the globalized economy withers – never to return in its present form in my view – we are bereft of that dense network of local shopowners, brokers of all kinds of goods, hometown bankers, small equipment repairmen who can restore broken goods to useful work and so many others whom we will be needing in the future that is now unfolding.
A Friendly Permaculture Critique of the Obamas’ Vegetable Garden
If I had written it as a Transition Tale in the Transition Handbook, it would have ranked as being even more ridiculous than the Beckhams’ cob retirement house. However, here we are, and Michelle Obama has started to dig up part of the White House lawn and turn it into a vegetable garden.
Indigeny Part I: Becoming Native To Your Place
I call the project “Indigeny” – that is, becoming local to your place, creating a culture that can go on, not just ’a bit after the fossil fuels run out” but for generations, and one that results in a life worth having. Without this, we are merely minimizing losses – and all of us need more than that.
