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...
G'day, I'll be teaching part of an upcoming permaculture design course for the Jim's Mowing franchisees near Melbourne, soon to be Jim's Permaculture, and I've...
Hi Rob Does "technologies" include grey water systems, some of which can be very, very simple, insulation, which again can be stuff like bubble wrap around...
The Love, Imagine, Network and Kindness Symposium. Dear friends, You are invited to attend The International Love, Imagine, Network and Kindness Symposium....
Scrapping Institutional Education in Favour of Community Apprenticeship Learning: A long but brilliant article by Gustavo Esteva, Oaxaca Zapatista adviser and...
A followup post from Dave that expands on yesterdays post on learning communities, see his original article for links and diagrams Rob Via Dave Pollard ...
http://au.todaytonight.yahoo.com/article/40110/lifestyle/return-commune There is also a lo-res video link on this page to the story below (That's the Channel 7...
Eco-junk - Green consumerism will not save the biosphere By George Monbiot http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2007/07/24/eco-junk/ It wasn't meant to happen like...
Surviving in a world that hates old ladies http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2007/07/surviving-in-a-.html Joe, For four months now, I have perused the help wanted...
A Failure of Mimesis by John Michael Greer Though I disagree with him as often as not, James Howard Kunstler is one of my favorite authors in the peak oil...
Hi All, A little time capsule from the rich history of alternative and intentional communities in Australia. This is a transcript from Jim Cairns letter...
Take this as a follow up to "Back From The Future" (message #730) Rob http://drivingsocrates.com/john-michael-greer ...Dear Colleague, Attached is a critique...
Via Comrade Simba at http://csimba.com/blog1/ http://csimba.com/blog1/2007/08/04/a-strange-kind-of-quiet-sets-in/ This is going to be a ramble, I’m way...