Africa’s Challenge in the 21st Century – Food Security
Africa as a whole is going to face two major problems in the 21st century: food security and adapting to climate change.
Christoph Seiler
Which Way Is Heaven?
The religious sensibilities I’ve been discussing in recent posts here on The Archdruid Report have an interesting property: they’re hard to define with any degree of precision, but remarkably easy to recognize in practice.
On socialism
Of course, traditional socialism was bound to fail.
The man who ate himself: An agricultural fable
The beetle sighed. "This is all something you once knew, I think. It is something all beings have known from the beginning of time…It is a pity, this forgetting of yours."
The International Year of Quinoa
A central premise of the Southern Willamette Valley Bean and Grain Project is the exploration of bean, grain, and edible seed varieties that can be added to those that are already grown in the Willamette Valley. The goal is to increase the diversity of staple crops as a way to add resilience to the regional food system. The edible seed of Chenopodium quinoa is a close fit.
On Gender, Collapse, & Communities We Can All Abide
At the heart of all the blogging, writing, and "prepping" for collapse is the concern: How will we be able to protect and sustain our families and others we love in drastically altered conditions?
Four Clues You’re an Artist (Human)
What we need is a world full of artists.
The Activist Rooster
Can we just agree from the beginning that there are no small or trivial freedoms? Every declaration of independence from old choices and worn out ways of being is equally powerful and profitable in making a new world.
Life Preservers for Mermaids
The new religious sensibility I began to sketch out in last week’s Archdruid Report post is a subtle thing, and easy to misunderstand.
Fun with Rain Collection
Do you want to collect and use some of the rain that falls on your roof? Here’s how we do it.
Albert Bartlett: On message about exponential growth to the end
Albert Bartlett might have been another obscure physics professor had he not put together a now famous lecture entitled "Arithmetic, Population and Energy"in 1969. The lecture begins with the line: "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."
Six Climate Conflict Hotspots that Could Impact Everyone
As climate change, urbanization, water and energy shortages grow more acute, there are a number of places around the globe where climate instability and water shortages threaten to spark conflict that will have global geopolitical and economic implications. Here are 6 of them.
