Sprouts!
Sprouting is a great way to produce some of your own food. If you have access to some clean jars, lids with screens, clean water, and appropriate seeds, you can raise your own sprouts.
Building Community
Genji and the printing press
Many discussions of preserving information for the deindustrial future focus on the internet and other high-tech options. A step or two down the technological ladder offers options that are much more likely to find their way from discussion into reality.
The role of religious communities in the Long Emergency
Religious communities are going to have a large and powerful role in the future – one that ideally, we’d begin shaping and preparing for today. This is one of the reasons I’m never so delighted as when I’m asked to talk to religious communities – because in many ways, I think that they provide an existing infrastructure that is potentially powerfully adaptable to the life we will be living.
Deep thought – Mar 17
What does Sustainability Mean for Energy?
The Earth’s Moment, Unveiled
Successful relocalization means that you stop growing…
Peak oil – March 17
The Oil Drum: World oil production peaked in 2008
Belgian parliament group treks to Uppsala for peak oil briefing
Global Oil Briefing No.2 (PO newsletter in German and English)
San Francisco: Preparing city for life after oil
Common myths of the population debate
In any debate there are particular key arguments that are used to undermine the opponent. A debate as heated as that over the importance, or not, of population growth is sure to feature these. It should be clear to readers of my essay published last week that I regard population growth as the core issue in any discussion on sustainability. Many of the arguments used by those who wish to dismiss or lessen the importance of population growth are false, misleading or simply mental tricks allowing their advocates the comfort of self-deception.
My Foreword to ‘The Transition Timeline’
Shaun Chamberlin’s masterwork, ‘The Transition Timeline’, is now complete and available for order. As someone who has been intimately involved in its conception and its production, I don’t think that a review from me would be of much use. It is of course brilliant, I love it.
We must make a lot of mistakes quickly
It should come as no surprise then that efforts to create a sustainable society will require a lot of trial and error. This is true in part because we are still only starting to understand what practices in areas such as building, farming, transportation and energy production might be sustainable in the long run.
Food & agriculture – March 14
World hunger, the crisis inside the economic crisis
Lappé: The city that ended hunger (Belo Horizonte, Brazil)
Food for free: how to make nettle soup from foraging
How might we be fed?
Classic Book Review: “How to Grow More Vegetables…”
New way to farm boosts climate, too
ODAC Newsletter – 13 Mar
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
Hard times – March 13
24 million go from ‘thriving’ to ‘struggling’
Tents on wheels give homeless people roof and pride
Postcards from the recessions: California’s Inland Empire
As Jobs Vanish, Motel Rooms Become Home
Eating Locally – March Soup
Our preferred food source is our own land. We know what goes into, and what comes out of, our little garden plot, and we know how it is handled, processed and stored. We now how to locate and identify wild edible plants – greens, mushrooms, nuts, berries and other fruit.
