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...
Via Dave Pollard http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2007/09/03.html#a1971 The independent media have been telling us for several years now that the US is no longer...
By Jason Godesky http://anthropik.com/2007/09/the-nature-of-cities/ The word civilization comes from the Latin civis, meaning "city." This curous epiphenomenon...
A thoughtful post from Kevin at Village Blog http://villageblog.blogspirit.com/archive/2007/09/11/truth-paradox.html In A Different Drum Scott Peck made the...
Heya folks We live on a bigger than average (about 4 house blocks) block in a little township 25km from Albury/Wodonga in NE Vic. Is a run down former farm...
Specters of Malthus: Scarcity, Poverty, Apocalypse Iain Boal in conversation with David Martinez http://www.counterpunch.org/boal09112007.html Iain Boal is an...
G'day Robin and welcome aboard, your property sounds like a wonderful opportunity and I dare say that a few of this lists members could be tempted. I'm...
by John Michael Greer http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2007/09/civilization-and-succession.html In an Archdruid Report post a couple of weeks ago, I...
by Sharon Astyk http://casaubonsbook.blogspot.com/2007/09/water-fountain.html Like everyone in the rich world, I carry bottles of water with me everywhere I...
by Kiashu at http://greenwithagun.blogspot.com/ http://greenwithagun.blogspot.com/2007/09/paul-saffo-has-said-that-he-gives-only.html It has been said that the...
From To Be Of Use by Dave Smith http://briarpatchnetwork.wordpress.com/history/ DURING the seventies and eighties, two businesses I cofounded, Briarpatch...
by Shayna Stock http://briarpatchmagazine.com/news/?p=496 I have written a lot about people who are creating community somewhat outside of greater society –...
by Rob Hopkins at Transition Culture http://transitionculture.org/2007/10/03/australias-first-transition-town/ Transition Sunshine Coast has just been...