Building the sustainable economy
The world seeks an alternative to the current disaster of globalisation. If we decided to change our economic system, what can we actually do? How can we create a sustainable economy?
Building Community
The power of community
Community” is often dismissed as a romantic notion, “harking back a golden age that never existed”. Traditional rural communities tended to be held together by the absence of choice: you were your mother’s daughter or your father’s son, and the range of possible futures – opportunities for travel, education, and employment- were limited.
Deep thought – Feb 6
The Growth Imperative
Sharon Astyk: What’s a Doomer Chick to Do?
James Lovelock interview
Opportunity knocks when it comes to a local food economy
Community-based agriculture has the potential for creating jobs, developing small business entrepreneurship and keeping precious dollars in the community.
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 4
Using Emergence to Take Social Innovation to a Scale
I Just Dropped in to See What Condition My Transition Was In: Part I
Traditions and trends in environmental Judaism
Farms heal – agrotherapy
After farming for most of the last sixteen years in semi-rural Sonoma County, Northern California, and being raised partly on our family farm in Iowa, I have come to understand that agriculture can serve many functions, in addition to producing food, fibers, and beverages. Some farms–especially non-industrial small family farms–are places where working the Earth can be good for body, mind and soul.
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 2
They’re young, they’re green, they’re militant: eco kids re-educating their parents
Life after the apocalypse
New book: “Ten Things Everyone Ought to Know”
Peak oil, the web of debt, & our local future
A new set of high definition videos are now online: Richard Heinberg on peak oil, Thaddeus Owen on permaculture, Ellen Brown on financial collapse, Tim Husdon on the four futures, and Kim Hill on the auto industry crisis, and more.
Movement and media – Jan 31
Changes at Post Carbon
New issue of Culture Change
Some observations on social media
Food & agriculture – Jan 31
Astyk: Food security as a cottage industry
Industrially grown produce shows long-term nutritional decline
Zimbabwe’s starving millions face halving of rations as UN cash dries up
Peak Moment 126: A School Garden Brings Learning to Life
Come along on a tour with team-teachers Glenda Berliner and Jeralyn Wilson, as they show us their elementary school garden bearing many fruits. It’s an important part of the curriculum: children make mason bee boxes, grow colonial medicinal plants, learn of other cultures, and put science to work.
Peak Moment 134: Shocks, Shortages, and Scenarios – Planning for a Post-Oil Future
Responding to peak oil will require reshaping our communities. These two interviews, taped in September 2008 at the ASPO-USA conference, are with Megan Quinn Bachman of Community Solutions, and Bryn Davidson of Dynamic Cities Project.
