Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Local food advocates seem to have put a good dose of local farm dust up the nostrils of Australian Agriculture Minister, Tony Burke. The issues of local food and food importation are complex and deserve a more mature and sophisticated approach than that offered by the minister.
“To Be of Use” – serving the community
Rev. Billy at the auto show
Kunstler’s novel: ‘a horse and some pepper would be nice’
Relocalize newsletter
Wall Street Journal: New limits to growth revive Malthusian fears
Passover as if Earth really matters
UK gardeners turn to vegetables
Self-sufficient living in East Anglia: hard work and red tape
India’s debt-ridden farmers committing suicide
Peak oil theory: Shell’s Hofmeister vs Simmons
The Oil Drum turns three
No oil? Cities in ruins? Welcome to Kunstler’s `World’
Shut that door! (UK shops waste energy)
Community Solution’s Agraria
New green website in UK
Study: it’s better to give than receive
What we can expect as nature changes
The United States of too much information (thinking about risk)
The next slum and the new green city
California needs more urban density
Cities on the edge of chaos
SUVs without wheels
James Kunstler’s vision of life post-peak gives even the most thoughtful doomers new things to think about and new ways to think about them.
How The Limits to Growth was demonized
Alex Steffen: Zero, now
Jeff Vail: Rhizome at the community level
The wise men of agribusiness did not predict that pasture farming— raising animals on pasture with little or no grain, would become the trend that it is today. Pasture farming more than anything else allows for a return of small scale agriculture because it is a low-cost way to get started in farming.
Our futures, personal and collective, depend as much on our imagination as the brute facts. If there is one thing that imagination makes possible, it is to believe that we are not necessarily limited by our past.
