Jeff Vail http://www.jeffvail.net/2007/04/design-imperative.html What is energy good for? A little background: simply put, energy performs work, which...
Via http://www.jeffvail.net/index.html http://www.jeffvail.net/2007/04/self-sufficient-gourmand-on-13-acre.html I'm pretty confident that you could drop me in...
John Michael Greer http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2007/04/cycles-of-sustainability.html It bears repeating that the heart of the predicament industrial...
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/food/story/0,,2052949,00.html During the second world war the government famously urged every able man and woman in Britain...
AT TIMES, it seems that there are no governments anymore, only budget offices. As the numerologists rose in power, programs increasingly became transformed...
Allan Chochinov http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/006469.html I don't like the word manifesto. It reeks of dogma and rules—two things I instinctively...
Old MacDonald Had A Farmers' Market – total self-sufficiency is a noble, misguided ideal By Bill McKibben http://www.incharacter.org/article.php?article=87 ...
but not in its original form
from Ha'Aretz Newspaper
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/849668.html
It Shall Return
By Avirama Golan
It wasn't only the...
John Michael Greer http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2007/04/where-are-lifeboat-communities.html Since the first serious doubts about the long-term...
by Alan Ramsey http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/articles/2007/04/06/1175366473874.html Growing up near Taree, Ken Henry would wade out, with his father and ...
http://www.roadtosurfdom.com/2007/04/23/the-numbing-of-the-australian-conscience/ How is one supposed to react to the intolerable insensitivity of those who...
TOTAL HONESTY One Day Encounter <http://www.byronevents.net/wisdom/contemplations.htm> "If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it." -...
Self-sufficiency on a balcony http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/selfsufficiency-on-a-balcony/ 2007/04/23/1177180569548.html It's not just the planet...
The "Armageddon Solution" To The Australian Mega-Drought http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21621161-2,00.html 1800 Australians may be forcibly removed from...
by Sharon Astyk http://casaubonsbook.blogspot.com/2007/05/rural-exodus.html For a while now, I've been arguing that the first phase of peak oil will see a lot...
By Kurt Cobb http://resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2007/05/point-of-despair.html I recently gave a talk to a college audience on what I called the hidden role...
Hi Rob Thank you so very much for this post - one of the best and most relevant. It articulates what I have been trying to say to some younger friends, and...
G'day Di, the article struck a chord with me on a number of points. Have done the despair thing and am now just getting on with it to the best of my ability,...
by Sharon Astyk http://casaubonsbook.blogspot.com/2007/05/sustainable-marriage.html I'd planned to write about coal today, since there's a lot of news about...
and another article along somewhat similar lines...
http://www.peakoilblues.com/blog/?p=80
"Husbands, Wives and Peak Oil Lives"
I woke up this morning with...
from HaAretz newspaper Wed., May 23, 2007 :
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/862352.html
Pioneers of an organic lifestyle
By Goel Pinto
The onions are...
Communities Forum Living Together, Doing It Better Community Living Options for the 21st Century Sustainable Community Living Models: eco-village, cohousing,...
http://casaubonsbook.blogspot.com/2007/05/feels-like-im-dyingfrom-that-old-used.html "I got the blues...Won't you save me? I got the blues...as far as I can...
Rob You articulate the craziness of the way society is chasing after a 'solution' to consumerism very well, apart from one factor. You, like almost everyone,...
JAPAN ECHO Vol. 25, No. 2, April 1998 The Cyclical Sensibility of Edo-Period Japan TANAKA Yûko Those of us who study the Japan of the Edo period (seventeenth ...
Peak Suburbia Jim Kunstler http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/2007/06/peak-suburbia.html I get lots of letters from people in various...
Völkerwanderung John Michael Greer http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2007/06/vlkerwanderung.html Focusing on short term issues, as I've commented more...
It's only the end of the world, so quit bitching The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that...