Spreading the word – Mar 25
“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
Building Community
Deep thought – Mar 25
Wall Street Journal: New limits to growth revive Malthusian fears
Passover as if Earth really matters
Food & agriculture – Mar 23
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 – Mar 23
Peak oil theory: Shell’s Hofmeister vs Simmons
The Oil Drum turns three
No oil? Cities in ruins? Welcome to Kunstler’s `World’
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 21
Shut that door! (UK shops waste energy)
Community Solution’s Agraria
New green website in UK
Deep thought – Mar 21
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)
Housing & urban design – Mar 13
The next slum and the new green city
California needs more urban density
Cities on the edge of chaos
SUVs without wheels
Review: Kunstler’s World Made by Hand
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.
Deep thought – Mar 11
How The Limits to Growth was demonized
Alex Steffen: Zero, now
Jeff Vail: Rhizome at the community level
Bouncing in the wool sack
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.
A work of imagination
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.
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 8
Review: The Transition Handbook
Implementing rhizome at the personal level
Sustainable Settings in Colorado leaves for greener pastures
Interfaith forum on environment in N Carolina
Mining exec an activist himself
