Food & agriculture – March 10
Michael Pollan Fixes Dinner (Extended Interview)
Vancouver latest municipality to allow urban chickens
Where there’s Muck… the joy of a well aged compost
Nine meals from anarchy?
Staff
Solutions & sustainability – March 10
Creating a Home Graywater System
Community as Technology
Foodzoning the Foodshed
Hot, flat, and confused
What Thomas Friedman says, right or wrong, is important, and so I was curious to hear his thinking on energy, globalization, and climate change—particularly in the context of the economic collapse.
Deep thought – March 10
Suspicious minds: paranoia on the rise
Psychology of denial
Framing The Collapsonomics Practice
Hot, Flat, and Confused
To feel lucky as collapse progresses / Tom Friedman’s awakening
Dealing with collapse proactively is getting all the more urgent, and that includes realizing that the talking heads have been hopelessly invested in a broken system that was painful and wrong from the get-go. Fortunately, one of them must have had a revelation or had the equivalent of some psychedelic trip. Tom Friedman of the New York Times has woken up.
The aim is joy
I’ve taken lovely vacations over the years, but the latest one, at an exclusive hideaway we were lucky enough to know about, had to be the best ever. … We could not have enjoyed the weekend just described without a very intimate knowledge of our surroundings.
Renewables & efficiency – March 9
Former CIA director Woolsey makes the case for a feed-in tariff
Solar power from deserts
Charmaine Watts at REFIT-NZ talks about the New Zealand FIT campaign
Peak oil review – Mar 9
A weekly review including:
– Production and Prices
– Venezuela
– China in recession
– Briefs
Biofuels & biochar – March 9
US ethanol producers urge Obama to up ethanol content of motor fuels
Monbiot: Biofuels do far more harm than good
International Biochar Initiative online
100 million new farmers? North Carolina writer calls for agricultural revolution
Peak oil and climate change writers Aaron Newton and Sharon Astyk have written a book called “A Nation of Farmers: Defeating the Food Crisis on American Soil,” which is nothing short of a call to arms for local food proponents.
Housing & urban design – March 9
Trouble at the mall
Kunstler: Retooling Suburbia
How the Crash Will Reshape America
New online report: Energy security in the residential sector
Our safety is at risk when governments fail to respond effectively to changing heat supplies and prices, according to Larry Hughes, the lead author of two new reports released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives in Nova Scotia.
