Food & agriculture – Apr 10
Meet the veg doctor
Human Impacts on Ecosystems
Household Dry Food Cooking
Food Industry Pursues the Strategy of Big Tobacco
Will New Food Safety Bills Really Outlaw Backyard Gardening and End Farmers’ Markets?
Media & Communications
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 9
My week of living (very, very) cheaply
Green Patriot Posters
Energy Co-op Brings Power to the People
What Can Transition Initiatives Learn from Smallholders?
Peak Oil Advice from German Poets
One question commonly raised among people who are beginning to face the crisis of industrial civilization is what they can do about it. With the help of two German Romantic poets, the Archdruid suggests some options.
The Green Power Illusion
America is finally showing leadership on climate change. But unfortunately the Obama Administration and the majority of US climate change activists haven’t learned very important lessons from the peak oil debate and look to be leading the world down an illusory path.
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 7
Slum cooker protects environment, helps poor
TOD: What are YOU Changing (*if anything), Individually, Locally, Nationally, etc?
Walking restores the world and humanity
Post Carbon Newsletter #48, March 2009
Food & agriculture – Apr 7
Great Depression Cooking with 93-year-old Clara Cannucciari
Small farms fear bearing brunt of new food safety regulations
Backyard Revolution(video and transcript)
United States – Apr 7
Kunstler: Strange Days
Americans Support Wide Array of Proposed Energy Policies, but Not Yet Ready to Make Tradeoffs
LNG promoters should forget about California
Media & web – April 6
US believers going green, hold media fast for Lent
Crawling the web to foretell ecosystem collapse
Grist launches new website in honor of 10th anniversary
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 2
Post Carbon Institute Manifesto
Confessions of a Reformed Worrywart
The back-to-the-lander: Vandana Shiva interview
Life After Oil
A Green Future Where You Can Borrow Cars And Drink Rainwater
Facing Decline, Facing Ourselves
Beyond the technical issues that occupy so much peak oil discussion lies the murkier realm of collective emotions and cultural narratives that so often blocks constructive action. A new book by Carolyn Baker, Sacred Demise, makes a valiant attempt to start a conversation about this dimension of our predicament — a conversation we desperately need to have.
Food & agriculture – Mar 31
Powerdown Toolkit #6: Deconstructing Dinner
Farmers Face Growing Climate Change Dilemma: Scientist
Forging a Hot Link to the Farmer Who Grows the Food
Why the White House garden matters
A growing interest at Statehouse
Decisions, Decisions: “Blind Spot” or “The Great Sqeeze”?
Always eager to preview Long Emergency, end-of-civilization-oriented documentaries, I recently found myself in a rather blessed quandary. I received review copies of “Blind Spot” from Director Adolfo Doring and Producer Amanda Zakem and “The Great Squeeze” by Director/Producer Christoph Fauchere and Co-Producer, Joyce Johnson, but as I watched both several times, I found it almost impossible to decide which one I preferred.
