Post Carbon Institute announces adoption of Energy Bulletin
Today Post Carbon Institute announced an agreement with EnergyBulletin.net to formally adopt the site as a core Institute program.
Building Community
Did the Amish get it right after all?
At the time when the national banking fraternity was on its knees in Washington, begging for money, news all over the media reported that Hometown Heritage bank in Lancaster County, Pa., was having its best year ever. Hometown Heritage may be the only bank in the world, surely one of the few, that has drive-by window service designed to accommodate horses and buggies. Some 95% of the bank’s customers are Amish farmers. The banker, Bill O’Brien, says that he has not lost a penny on them in 20 years.
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 12
Artists reimagine poster art of the Great Depression
Vermont group looks at life without oil
In New York, no crisis for niche manufacturers
Happiness grows out of tiny parks, not huge TVs
That bastion of American socialism
As a practical matter, failing at capitalism does not automatically make you socialist, no more than failing at marriage automatically make you gay.
Consumerism and coping – Jan 11
Why you should never take me Christmas shopping
A generation adjusts as teens confront a harsh economy
The masters of the universe who cannot live with failure
Food & agriculture – Jan 10
Billions face food shortages, study warns
Global warming will be a killer for agriculture
Land sharing is a new trend
The role of home gardens in feeding the world & sequestering carbon
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 9
Sustainable studying
Wondermentalist/Matt Harvey Telling Transition Tales
Introduction to EntropyPawsed – Adventures In Sustainable Living
Economics – Jan 9
When It Comes to Cash, A Thai Village Says, ‘Baht, Humbug!’
Local Currencies Grow During Economic Recession
The Crisis Of ’08 Reading List
Deep Thought – Jan 8
Writer of 1970s ‘Ecotopia’ makes a comeback in the green era
Energy Uncertainty and Community Resilience
Two Steps Towards Being Slightly More Sustainable
The Peer-Polity Peter Principle
Western prosperity is based on resources that are running out
Food & agriculture – Jan 6
Wes Jackson and Wendell Berry: A 50-Year Farm Bill
Peak soil
A Change We Can Believe In – Dumping Industrial Agriculture
Community Food Co-op establishes stronger foothold in local grocery industry with opening of second store in north Bellingham
Knowing One’s Place
Dave Haferd sees his farm with eyes that are 200 years old. He knows every foot of its 180 acres, on top and underneath. Walking across his land, he discourses endlessly and joyfully upon almost any rock, post, tree, clod, weed, or building that his eye falls upon.
The Transition Town Movement: Embracing Reality and Resilience
For several months I have been meaning to write a review of Rob Hopkins’ The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience, but other things got in the way-like a planetary economic meltdown and out of control climate change that exceeds some of the most dire predictions by climate scientists. I should have spoken out earlier in support of this movement, but I didn’t. Now, as we commence this new year, I am.
I will begin this book “review” by telling you that I find nothing-absolutely nothing wrong with The Transition Handbook. If that then makes this article into a commercial for the book instead of a review, so be it.
