Why Don’t You Have an Electric Bike Already?
If you’re already making most of your daily trips by bike or on foot, you don’t need to read further. An electric bike is unlikely to improve your life. For everyone else, read on!
Karen Lynn Allen
Zombies, Magic Rocks, and Techno-utopia (Episode 6 of Crazy Town)
In this episode, Asher, Rob, and Jason search for reasons why the movie theater is so obsessed with Armageddon and the political theater offers empty promises of infinite progress, when the reality is likely to be somewhere in the messy middle.
‘Regenerative Agriculture’: World-Saving Idea or Food Marketing Ploy?
For people feeling that they have fallen from grace, who yearn to return to a time without fossil fuels, the idea of regenerative agriculture could hold real power.
Peak Oil Review: 15 April 2019
Oil prices continued to creep up last week closing out at $71.55 in London and $63.89 in New York, making the sixth consecutive week of gains.
Spring Memories of Why We Must Protect Wetlands and Streams
In short, try again. EPA should respond to legal challenges to the 2015 Clean Water Rule with targeted refinements of current policy, as opposed to an about-face on the policy that was developed in full compliance with administrative procedures and documented with thorough scientific and legal rationales.
Our Actions Create the Future: A Response to Jem Bendell
I believe that hope has a crucial role in healing, and in driving our engagement in effecting the deep transformation we need.
Responding to Green Positivity Critiques of Deep Adaptation
Since my paper on Deep Adaptation to climate chaos came out in July 2018 and “went viral,” there have been some criticisms of the concept and what people think it implies.
Transition Streets Gets an Update!
This 2019 revision of the Transition Streets handbook not only captures what’s new, it includes additional information to consider in how we think about the lives we lead and the changes we want to make.
What is a Permaculture Convergence?
A conference, convention, gathering of grand wizards. Just some of the things I’ve heard a convergence mistakenly called over the years. If you’ve never been to one then you’re missing out – but missing out on what!? What is a convergence?
From Australia to Africa, Fences are Stopping Earth’s Great Animal Migrations
For time immemorial, many wildlife species have survived by undertaking heroic long-distance migrations. But many of these great migrations are collapsing right before our eyes.
New Money Meets the Cost of Change: How Local Currencies Save Economies and Communities, and Help them Flourish
Of course the economic crisis was fundamental to the evolution of alternative economics in Greece. Although some thinkers have long advocated other ways of using and running currencies, most barter systems arise in times of upheaval where trust in the banks is eroded or they withdraw liquidity.
The Path To Liberating Humanity Is The Same As The Path To Liberating The Individual
The path to enlightenment is the process of becoming clearly aware of all the different aspects of the way you operate inside, which enables you to relate to life as it’s actually appearing
