Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
I found Harland Hubbard in an article in the National Geographic in the early 1960s. He and his wife, Anna, were what was called at that time modern homesteaders…They raised all their food, or caught it from the river, or traded for it with neighbors…Their life was both rigorous and elegant.
[Within the next three weeks, my forthcoming book, Sacred Demise: Walking The Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization’s Collapse will be released and will be available for purchase at this website and at the Amazon and Barnes & Noble websites. Below is the book’s foreword written by Sarah Anne Edwards, Ph.D. and co-author of Middle Class Lifeboat.
At EntropyPawsed, we have a hand pump well. This reminds us at least daily of our water usage. This daily reminder encouraged us to develop our current system of dish washing in which we use about one gallon of water to wash the dishes.
The Abyss Stares Back
Owners must be weaned off the house-price drug
Bears in the finance-media zoo
Conflict over, and in the midst of, nature’s assets
NYT: Could energy success backfire in the end?
Gloom and doom
The secret
Peak energy: promise or peril? (Nature)
New documentary: Australia Pumping Empty
Heinberg on the conservation imperative
Blind Spot documentary
WaPo: Trouble trickles from steep drop in oil prices
Peak Oil Vortrag von Paul Nellen in TĂĽbingen
Ă–lpreisentwicklung von Andy Sommer (HSH Nordbank)
New German-language peak oil-aware newsletter now online
Renewable energy is major source of carbon reduction in Germany: a response to the ‘Spiegel’ article
UK allotments boom as thousands go to ground in recession
NYT on Urban Composting: A New Can of Worms
Portland, Maine allows backyard chickens
Family of 5 weathers economy with 7 housemates
Can I Lose My Car Without Losing My Home?
Neighbors Helping Neighbors—to Break Into Vacant Houses
Treating the Blues Could Save the Planet
UVic bans plastic utensils, uses bamboo instead
How to Start a Farm with No Land and Little Money
Bantry CSA – the Community Solution to Getting Your Oats?
It Starts at Home
CERA and WEF: Water Resources a Growing Challenge for Energy
Los Angeles nears water rationing
A World Without Water
Australian householders to be charged for each flush of toilet
China’s growing appetite for U.S.-style meat production
Less is more approach to fertiliser could boost farmers
Parched China to slash water consumption by 60%
