Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Cody Lundin imparts details that often pester my mind when thinking about emergency scenarios and in so doing makes me far less cavalier about the more grim possibilities. A great deal of this information would be useful right now for my family in Thailand as they suffer through the flood. Indeed there is a very third world flavor to Cody’s frugal, homemade approaches that speaks to me.
– Growing Protest Repels Troops in Cairo
– Mellower Occupy Movement Grows in the Suburbs
– How is Occupy Wall Street “like” an API / Tim Pool acting as eyes and ears for thousands
– Occupy Maine and decentralization
The following guidelines are a great way to set the tone for any book group or study circle. We typically read them together at the first or second meeting of a group.
They were originally written for the Transition Handbook Discussion Course.
The holiday season is a time for gifts, decorations, and lots and lots of food. As a result, it’s also a time of spectacular amounts of waste. In the United States, we generate an extra 5 million tons of household waste each year between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, including three times as much food waste as at other times of the year. When our total food waste adds up to 34 million tons each year, that equals a lot of food. With the holidays now upon us, the Worldwatch Institute offers 10 simple steps we all can take to help make this season less wasteful and more plentiful.
The following is the text of an address by Richard Heinberg to the Moana Nui Conference in Honolulu, November 12, 2011. Honolulu was concurrently hosting the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Conference; as a response to that secretive international trade meeting, the International Forum on Globalization and Pua Mohala Ka Po collaborated to organize Moana Nui.
-Come together: Could communal living be the solution to our housing crisis?
-US millionaires say ‘raise our taxes’
-Brightfarms reduce supply chain … to about 10 vertical metres!
-Can a Clothing Factory Stay Competitive While Paying Workers a Living Wage?
The work of mathematician and architectural theorist Nikos Salingaros continues Christopher Alexander’s work on the nature of architectural order, with more development of specifically scientific aspects. A basic point both make is that natural, biological, and urban systems have a great deal in common. In particular, they all function in complex, varying, and adaptive ways on many different levels. For that reason, they can’t be designed in any very comprehensive way but must largely be allowed to evolve through variation and selection.
– An Uprising With Plenty of Potential (Tea Party strategist, professors, Cornell West)
– Here’s what attempted co-option of OWS looks like (Glenn Greenwald)
– Lobbying Firm’s Memo Spells Out Plan to Undermine OWS
– Should the Occupiers Stay or Go?
– Awesome (lightshow on Verizon Building in NYC)
– Occupy and anarchism’s gift of democracy
– Occupiers: We’re Already Changing Politics
– OWS-inspired activism
– Corporate change of heart: “The Brotherhood of Man” (video)
– The Keystone Victory
– NYT: Older, Suburban and Struggling, ‘Near Poor’ Startle the Census
– Zoobombing in Portland, Oregon (video of off-beat bicycle event)
– NassimTaleb: End Bonuses for Bankers
Something happened in September 2011 so unexpected that no politician or pundit saw it coming.
Ianto Evans and Linda Smiley at The Cob Cottage Company, in Coquille, Oregon, have created probably the most complete permaculture site in the country. Permaculture sites, including our own, generally emphasize plants, animals and earthworks and ignore building your own home. I am beginning to see that one cannot have permaculture without building your own comfortable dwelling from the materials onsite.
