Garden – Apr 25
Stand by your beds – guerrilla gardening
Warming shifts gardeners’ maps
Pasadena family finds change can start in your own backyard
Building Community
Deep thought – Apr 25
Sharon Astyk: Ok, breathe
The politics of food is politics
Peak civilization and the winter of our disconnect
Everything you think you know about modern society is wrong (and why it matters for PO)
Peak clothing – Apr 24
BBC: The end of cheap clothes is near
The Joy of Socks
After the Peak – movie review
After the Peak is a mock-TV news program, presented as if live from a local television station in North Carolina. The time is “one year from today”. Worldwide oil production has peaked and is declining.
Food & agriculture – Apr 23
Biofuels starving our people – South American leaders
WSJ: When neighbors become farmers
Many Wisconsin dairy farmers switch to grazing
Deep thought – Apr 22
Happiest Americans are the oldest
NZ: The end is nigh – news reports tell similar story
Climate:
War, peace, and surrender
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 22
Green issue of NY Times Magazine
Cuban permaculturalist visits Australia
Seattle’s Local Food Action Initiative a cure for society’s ills?
Life (mostly) off the grid
Ontario set to veto ban on clotheslines
Review: Reinventing Collapse by Dmitry Orlov
In comparing the responses of the US and the Soviet Union to collapse, Orlov takes on the task of breaking it to American readers that the very successes that made them so rich (a few anyway) and so great, will help not at all.
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 17
Activist LeDuke focuses on climate, PO, food
Australia’s 2020 Summit: ‘Now that’s a bright idea’
Transition City Leeds
Home remedies – Apr 17
Pakistan: Ban wedding meals, lighting?
Bread expert: we need to bake our own
NYT on kitchen gardens, survivor gardens
Change our diet to resolve the food crisis?
Deep thought – Apr 16
Wendell Berry on peak oil: Faustian economics
Economist Sachs believes we can save world
Callenbach’s Ecotopia and Kunstler’s World Made by Hand
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 16
Transition Towns in New Zealand
Daily Mail: An entire village turns against supermarkets and grows its own food
Author trades suburbia for ‘simple’ life
