An Ecological Look at Vegetable Gardening Systems
In which I apply insights from the study of ecology to different ways to grow vegetables. Let the competition begin!
Claire Schosser
Cuba: Figuring Out Pieces of the Puzzle
Cuba is an unusual country that has been followed by many peak oilers. I recently visited there. I also followed my usual practice of looking up data from Internet sources about what is happening. I summarize my findings in this article.
The Era of Response
The third stage of the process of collapse, following what I’ve called the eras of pretense and impact, is the era of response
Honeybee Collapse is the Result of Their Enslavement in Industrial Monocultures
The problem of Colony Collapse Disorder is a symptom of transient pollinators-for-hire who are forced to live in giant bee slums and to survive on diets of junk food.
The Era of Impact
The era of impact is the point at which it becomes clear to most people that something has gone wrong with the most basic narratives of a society…
Review: Afterburn by Richard Heinberg
Heinberg, who has few peers in the art of distilling complex messages down to simple, easily understandable take-aways, gives this summation of our fossil fuel predicament: “it’s all about energy; renewables are the future; growth is over.”
Renewable Energy: Is That Where Salvation Lies?
It’s common to read on blogs dealing with global warming that the only thing preventing renewable energy from replacing fossil fuels in short order within the U.S. is the political muscle of the fossil fuel industries.
What Would Happen if We all Grew Food?
Why GMO? How many people could all the empty yards in a suburban block feed if they were put to use growing food?
The Era of Pretense
The decline and fall of a civilization isn’t a single event, or even a single linear process; it’s a complex fractal reality composed of many different events on many different scales in space and time.
Living with High Water in the Himalaya
The fabled Valley of Kashmir, encircled by the mountains of the Western Himalaya, is a high-altitude wetland in northernmost India. Battered by record floods in 2014, its people must renew their knowledge and practices, of craft and seasonal sustenance in a unique hydraulic environment.
Why We Have an Oversupply of Almost Everything (Oil, labor, capital, etc.)
Glut of Capital and Labor Challenge Policy Makers: Global oversupply extends beyond commodities, elevating deflation risk. To me, this is a very serious issue, quite likely signaling that we are reaching what has been called Limits to Growth…
The Whisper of the Shutoff Valve
Meanwhile,in Detroit and Baltimore, tens of thousands of residents are in the process of losing their access to water and electricity.
