Transition – Feb 21
– Diversity
– Solidarity
– A former urbanite puts down green roots
– The easy pleasures of a simplified living space
Building Community
A movement or an organization?
It’s really important to get that we’re not creating a movement. Directing, guiding, or nudging perhaps, but not creating. We need to supply the “thread” onto which to string all the “beads” of positive, resilience-oriented action
Envisioning sustainable communities (parts 1 and 2)
There is no more important question for us to grapple with than the question of how our community and larger society should be organized. We need to clarify what we mean by ‘community’ and think about what design we should strive for, because if you want sustainability and equality at the end of the day, you have to build them in at the start.
The psychology of the ‘Space Cowboy’ prepper
Here is a post offering hope to those who consider themselves ’spaced out,’ ADHD (attention deficit), scattered, air-headed, a Space Cowboy, forgetful, inconsistent, unreliable and the like. There IS hope for you, and you can prep.
Haiti redux – Feb 18
-UN alarmed at lack of global support for Haiti’s immediate agricultural needs
-Haiti Is Open For Business
-Haiti: A Creditor, Not A Debtor
-US Brags Haiti Response Is A ‘Model’ While More Than A Million Remain Homeless In Haiti
Economics – Feb 18
-China losing appetite for U.S. debt
-Metal prices rising strongly again
-Collapse of the euro is ‘inevitable’: Bailing out the Greek economy futile, says FRENCH banking chief
-Goldman Goes Rogue – Special European Audit To Follow
-The Making of a Euromess
-Did peak oil cause the present financial crisis?
Biofuels – Feb 18
-Controversy mounts in EU over fall-out from biofuel
-British Airways to fly jets on green fuel made from London’s rubbish by 2014
-BA’s biofuels plans mean a lot of garbage: the problem of “peak waste”
Food & agriculture – Feb 18
-Michael Pollan: Forget Nutrition Charts, Eat What Grandma Said Is Good for You
-Green Eyes On: Is Bees’ Thirst Leading to Their Demise?
-‘Old environmentalists’ are challenging an obsession with land productivity
-More biofuel waste for cows, plus a California beef packer pulls a Toyota
-Perennial Plants from Seed
-Omaha World-Herald: Kenyan farmers persevere despite cultivation challenges
Transport – Feb 18
-In The Public Interest: What’s Next for High-Speed Rail?
-Mayor: Metro riders come first
-The Bikeway Network
Responses & Resilience – Feb 18
-Getting Your Family On Board With Food Storage
-The community-owned, timber-framed, self-heating village shop
-Nitrogen for Free
Agroinnovations #77: CREAR with Mark Feedman
Mark Feedman is the founder of CREAR, the Regional Center for the Study of Rural Alternatives, a small agricultural school located in the northern mountains of the Dominican Republic, near the Haitian border. Feedman has been an tireless advocate of sustainable agriculture for 40 years, and in this interview he recounts his struggle to create an educational center in the remote forests of Hispaniola. Topics include rural education, the future of Haiti, and the subject of hope.
What is collapse, anyway?
With any reasonably successful blog, you have a conversation going on, often between an author and commenters who have a long history and background, and people coming into the conversation for the first time…Balancing the degree to which you write for the regulars and to those new to you is always an interesting exercise.
