The Autonomous Apple Tasters Collective
2013 saw a lot of successful gardening and foraging projects, and none were quite as fun to participate in as the apple harvest has been.
Andy Russell
The Future is a Foreign Country
I’m pleased to note that the conversation about ephemeralization and catabolic collapse launched a few weeks back by futurist Kevin Carson, and continued in several blogs since then, has taken a promising new turn.
Zombie Cannibalism: Why We Should Be Concerned if There’s a Business Case for Eating People
But still, it’s unnerving to think: there’s a business case for eating people.
Crowdfunding for renewables comes of age
Crowdfunding of renewable energy projects is growing fast in Europe. If this grassroots movement gets organized in time to access the big money available in the next round of cohesion funding, it could have far reaching effects on the European energy sector.
Green bankruptcy
There has been a lot of bad news for European Green parties lately and it must be said that those woes are not really undeserved.
The problem with (affordable) helium
Things do not have to run out to become unavailable. They can simply be priced out of reach for most people. That’s where we are headed for many basic resources, and that has implications for the stability of the global system which we’ve built.
Catabolic Ephemeralization? Carson versus Greer
Last week, Kevin Carson, a political historian and theorist of the Mutualist tradition, took issue with the concept of catabolic collapse, a term coined a few years ago by the author John Michael Greer. Greer responded; the exchange that followed provided an illuminating look at two views of the future that actually share many qualities but which differ in important respects.
Retrofitting a Small Town
For the last four years, I have been dreaming of retrofitting a small town…
Reinventing Square Wheels
The inability of most economic activities to turn a profit in an age of contraction is already an issue at many levels, and one with which contemporary economic thought is almost completely unprepared to deal.
Comes a Fight
History has handed us a job to do that will require a whole new word for courage before we are done.
The numbers don’t add up to U.S. energy independence
Energy independence. It’s so easy to say, but oh so hard to actually accomplish, which is why the United States has been a consistent importer of oil since the late 1940s.
Preserving the Harvest: Learn why and how to use the sun to dehydrate foods
Dehydration is one way to preserve some of the excess production from your garden. Learn why and how you can use the sun to dehydrate foods.
