Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The Austerity Issue: don’t panic (housewives to the rescue in Post-War Britain)
Guardians of the past uncover green lessons for the present (UK heritage)
Portland sustainability, personal responsibility and the prospect for oil’s full return
I looked at the scale of the problem, and I looked at our response (not much so far), and I came, broadly, to this conclusion. We might screw it up. Oh, it is possible that I’m underestimating human ingenuity, and that we’ll do everything right. On the other hand, it seemed like having some kind of contingency plan for a scenario in which we did not replace all our energy infrastructure rapidly, where we did face tight supplies, volatile prices and perhaps an economic depression, in part created by our situation was a good idea. … And I have to say, learning that [the IEA estimated] the decline rate is 9.1% makes me feel that my strategy has mostly been the right one. Because that’s a huge and shocking number.
Food hunters of the urban jungle
Albert Bates: Biochar’s fractal dimension
Forget flowers, say I love you with vegetables
The food crisis and gender
Letter to Oregon Department of Planning and Development: “There is a dangerous disconnect between land use planning and development on one hand and population-based health on the other that can be remedied by recognizing and utilizing the specialized expertise Public Health provides. … Biology dictates that human health simply cannot be sustained in an unhealthy environment, and the use of our land – in urban, suburban, exurban, rural and frontier settings alike – is one of the most powerful determinants of our environmental health.” (Comment from a planner: “challenging comments… I’ve never seen anything like it before.”)
Fabius Maximus: Causes of the financial crisis (not the usual list)
Economics needs a scientific revolution
Buy-local, buy-global Debate
Rod Dreher: Time for a stiff slug of forced austerity?
Relocalize newsletter: Democracy in action
Waste not, want not
Moving beyond sustainability to environmental effectiveness
Britons dying for green burials
The Astyks represent a small but growing number of Americans who are paring down and cutting back and, in doing so, finding financial relief and a measure of happiness.
Follow Cuba’s emissions standard
Sustenance for sustainability
Guardians of the past uncover green lessons for the present
The Most Radical Thing You Can Do
Preparedness, at its root, is more than anything about making sure people get dinner. Yes, we can prepare to fight off zombie attacks, build earth shelters in case we lose ours (although odds are most of us will move in with a friend or relative), learn how to handle background radiation – but the first tier problems most of us face – and the ones most people prepare for first, are the ones we’re familiar with – what will we eat? How will we cook it?
Staying home as a necessity and a right
Progettazione per zone e settori in ambiente urbano
Creating a Post-Peak Future Worth Living Into
Horticultural Consciousness: Hemenway interview #2
Time to build a new civilization
The temples of doom
The Most Radical Thing You Can Do
World is facing a natural resources crisis worse than financial crunch
Thoreau Is Rediscovered as a Climatologist
Elliot Diringer at Pew on Copenhagen climate negotiations (audio)
