Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Radio show featuring no-impact living, dumpster diving, peak oil, life of Edward Abbey
Bill McKibben: Multiplication saves the day
A suburb for our times: Depression-era village in Australia
NYT: Locally grown produce
The U.S. financial system is in collapse, and energy costs are likely to come back again next spring and summer with a vengeance that we can’t imagine. This will make the price of food, already off the scale, skyrocket even further. We must all get to know our local farmers, or better yet, become them. In the moment, we have the “luxury” of low energy prices, and it is during this time that we should be making food security our top priority.
It seems that many of the peak oil heavyweights, including Richard Heinberg and Dmitry Orlov, in particular, despite their own ingenious contributions to analyzing our current predicament, seem to blithely dismiss survivalism. They apparently do not understand the basic technical constructs of survivalism…
Edible playgrounds and political vegetables
Getting to know your local farmer
Ben Gisin of Touch the Soil magazine
Biofuels push Ethiopian farmers to food aid
Acid soils in Slovakia tell somber tale
Many proposed responses to the crisis of industrial society focus on drafting plans for a new society in advance. Is this as sensible as it seems, or do we need to approach the future before us in a more improvisational way?
From the village green to the village blue
Homes and offices should take ‘green MoT’, says thinktank
Wasted opportunities
Suburbia has a significant potential to provide its own food, water, and energy. It won’t be as simple as snapping our fingers. And it likely won’t be possible for suburbia to consistently produce 100% of its needs. But I think one thing is quite clear: the potential increase in suburbia’s self-sufficiency is significantly greater than the potential for urban areas.
Peak phosphorous
Thousands pick up free vegetables on Colo. farm
Radical producers go free-range on farm policy (Joel Salatin)
New geopolitics of world agriculture
Russia Today: Earth faces starvation
How the new racial landscape of America meets the Green movement, increasing the visibility of both.
Jason Bradford: Real security and wealth is in the community we have
The case for Resilient Community
Big Green Brother
The power of religion
Energy: How low can you go?
Peak oil activists from across the nation gathered on a college campus over the Halloween weekend to confront the scary prospects of declining worldwide oil production – and to focus on how they and their communities can cope. “People can find ways to lead happy, fulfilling lives even as this doomed system crumbles all around them,” Russian immigrant writer Dmitry Orlov told the conference.
The Transition Town model is a very different way to address peak oil and climate change than most of those now getting headlines. We hear a lot about getting other people to do something: Build electric cars, erect wind turbines, re-build passenger rail or sign the Kyoto Protocol. In Transition Towns, people get together themselves to weatherize each others’ homes, repair bicycles, create community gardens, and plant nut and fruit trees in parks and along streets.
