Food & agriculture – March 10
Michael Pollan Fixes Dinner (Extended Interview)
Vancouver latest municipality to allow urban chickens
Where there’s Muck… the joy of a well aged compost
Nine meals from anarchy?
Culture & Behavior
Solutions & sustainability – March 10
Creating a Home Graywater System
Community as Technology
Foodzoning the Foodshed
Deep thought – March 10
Suspicious minds: paranoia on the rise
Psychology of denial
Framing The Collapsonomics Practice
Hot, Flat, and Confused
To feel lucky as collapse progresses / Tom Friedman’s awakening
Dealing with collapse proactively is getting all the more urgent, and that includes realizing that the talking heads have been hopelessly invested in a broken system that was painful and wrong from the get-go. Fortunately, one of them must have had a revelation or had the equivalent of some psychedelic trip. Tom Friedman of the New York Times has woken up.
Housing & urban design – March 9
Trouble at the mall
Kunstler: Retooling Suburbia
How the Crash Will Reshape America
Visions of change – March 6
Rees’s Thesis
Reimagining Socialism
Together, We Save the Planet
The Revolution Has Already Occurred
Follow Brazil’s Example
Transition towns
Lost Generation
Time-travel economics with Jonathan Swift
The Reverend Dr. Swift put his ruddy all-probing finger on several of our worst maladies: upward mobility, contempt for the places that sustain us (doubly detestable in those who have “risen” from such places), outsourcing, enslavement to fashion, which is naught but the Tyranny of the Next Thing, and the habit of raising children to do nothing more productive than sit on their Frito-fed fannies until the entertainment industry has successfully amused them into an intellectual indolence exceeded only by their physical inertia.
Deep thought – March 5
Lessons from the Collapse of the USSR (Orlov video)
British historian Mark Jones on the world crisis
The Free Nature Movement
Nate Hagens – On Credit, Depletion, Energy Nationalization – Radio Interview
Solutions & sustainability – March 4
Spring 2009 issue of Yes! Magazine
Backed by Green Party, Reverend Billy Runs for Mayor
“Going Green” starts here: One student’s quest for sustainable living
Seussian Paradigm Shift
I was thinking of Seuss this morning, because my children are anxious to celebrate his birthday (his 105th), but also because it strikes me that the world-turned-upside-down qualities of our present situation are in some ways Seussian.
EntropyPawsed:Sense of Place
Development of a sense of place is integral to leading a fulfilled low energy lifestyle. One might even say a nature linked low energy lifestyle requires an expanded sense of place.
Deep thought – March 3
Towards a Scale-Free Energy Policy
Bright Green, Light Green, Dark Green, Gray: The New Environmental Spectrum
The World of Tomorrow 1 The Old Future
