Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
-Children ‘believe sheep lay eggs’
-Red wigglers could be the new black gold
-The GM tomato that stays fresh for SIX WEEKS – but would you want to eat it?
-India bans planting of first GM food crop
-Another Assault on the SOLE Food Movement
-Legislation intended to help orchard companies
-Demand for food “staggering”
My disappointment in government leaders is matched by my admiration for a new influential group of Americans, whom I call lifestyle leaders — those who take matters into their own hands, by building gardens, weatherizing their homes, getting rid of their cars… Believing this group may hold the key to the rapid dissemination of low-energy lifestyles, I conducted an online survey of 2,005 of them in late 2009.
-Robert Kenner: Big Food will do everything to stop you talking about this
-Swing Time: On Morris Dickstein
-The Book of Eli and the Sacred Journey of Collapse
-Michael Pollan interviewed by Amy Goodman
-Why Food Inc. Should Make Us All Retch
-Davie Philip on ‘The Good Life 2.0.’
-Tribalism and a Place at the Table
-Walking: A simple focus for the Smart Growth movement
-A Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition
-Network Theory: A Key to Unraveling How Nature Works
-How to Get Our Democracy Back
-Globalization Is Killing The Globe: Return to Local Economies
-A High School For Green Teens
-Climate change and the West
-DIY Life: Urban Homesteaders at Kitchen Table Talks
Are current corporate-dominated international institutions inadequate to the task of meeting the multiple planetary survival challenges they themselves have helped create?…Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute (postcarbon.org), talks about the factors contributing to the stalemate in the Copenhagen climate summit, the other ‘game ending’ challenges confronting the current economic system, and the bottom-up steps necessary to move to a post-carbon economy.
The Speerville Flour Mill is a locally-owned and operated business in New Brunswick that has for over 25 years been supplying the Atlantic Provinces of Canada with local, organically grown grains and foods. The mill supports dozens of organic grain farmers in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. One of those farmers is Andrew Kernohan of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. In September 2009, Deconstructing Dinner visited Speerville and Andrew’s farm while touring throughout the provinces.
– A taste of permaculture in Belize (video)
– Local food — by and for the people (video)
– Rob Hopkins on homepage of New Scientist
– Transition San Francisco recognized as 55th US transition initiative
– Marmalade and the gift economy
– How Hurricane Katrina turned me into a citrus fanatic and marmalade maker
– Obsessives: Marmalade (video)
– Evil Mad Scientist: Marmalade is way easier than it looks
– Wikipedia: What is it?
– A.A. Milne: Marmalade instead of butter
One way of looking at our current set of predicaments is that we’ve been on a binge, consuming energy considerably faster than it can be captured and stored by Earth’s ecosystems. While fossil fuels once appeared limitless (and still do to deniers of peak oil), and though we’re literally bathed in energy (in the form of sunlight), the disappearance of the fossil-fuel storehouse accumulated over millions of years isn’t something that can be replaced with anything nearly as convenient as fossil fuels.
According to In Defense of Food author Michael Pollan, “…the advent of “nutritionism” has vastly complicated how Americans see food, without doing very much for our health. Nutritionism arose to deal with genuine issues – addressing chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes and many cancers – but now seems to be obscuring and perpetuating the real problems of the American diet”, says Pollan. This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on January 27, 2010.
