Solutions & sustainability – Jan 26
Climate adaptation for resilient communities
Controlling our history: encyclopedias vs Wikipedia
Powerdown toolkit
Building Community
Food & agriculture – Jan 23
Gene Logsdon: Andrew Wyeth and the Percheron on the world’s most famous farm
Grow your own: The seeds of change
Foodie Food Storage
Food & agriculture – Jan 19
Smithsonian: Dig it! The secrets of soil
New book: “Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity”
Madagascar: Land rental deal collapses after backlash against ‘colonialism’
The freedom garden (new movement and online community)
Deep thought – Jan 19
Social Movements 2.0
One cord per acres: thoughts on sustainability
How the city hurts your brain
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 19
Iceland: “It will fix itself”
‘Food Security’ in Boise
Top 7 alternative energies listed
Transport – Jan 19
Bill Would Allow Bicyclists to Legally Roll Through Stop Signs
Students, communities pay when schools cut busing
Expensive oil means end of roads – why include them in stimulus?
Peak-oil activist approach for the coming change in culture
To live with as little petroleum and other non-renewable resources as possible right now is to embrace a new world of localized economics and a lower-tech set of practices and processes formerly termed Appropriate Technology. But if we instead hope for as little change as possible in the near future, we will probably bring on the worst consequences of recent decades’ energy gluttony.
Turmoil – Jan 18
Eastern Europe braced for a violent ‘spring of discontent’
Study looks at mortality in post-Soviet era (importance of community)
Military report raises concerns about social unrest fueled by globalization, urbanization
The new ecology of war (Mike Davis interview)
Do-it-yourself science
Self-help journalism among farmers
Towards more fruitful agricultural experimentation
How to carry out an agricultural experiment
A new kind of big science
Farmer experimenters: self-developed technology
Transition Towns on the move
Transition Town networking site for the U.S. – beginning of a movement?
Post Carbon Institute launches partnership with Transition United States
Transition Town movement gains traction in New Zealand
Deep thought – Jan 16
Obituary: Arne Næss
From Russia: The current crisis was predicted 30 years ago
We can’t afford to do everything the hard way
I’ve accepted peak oil: now what?
Oil will peak. I get it…I am convinced that this thing we call civilization is ludicrously based on profit and is a madman’s interpretation of the pursuit of happiness. I recognize the insanity. The illusion that participating in the race for stainless steel appliances and ride-on lawn mowers as a worthy endeavor is squashed forever.
So now what?
