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http://theorstrahyun.blogspot.com/2008/06/ridiculously-satisfying-go-ahead-laugh.html Go ahead, laugh at those wonky carrots. Couldn't care less, they tasted...
by Kurt Cobb http://resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2008/06/tinkering-our-way-to-sustainability.html When we think about the scope of the ecological challenges...
http://www.comradesimba.com/blog/?p=4 by Comrade Simba So if I'm standing and line at a bank or some store and I want to bitch about the price of a 50 pound...
Hi all, just a quick intoduction. My family are due to relocate from rural Bungendore to rural Victoria in October. We are looking at Heathcote at this point...
Hi Lotus and welcome to the list, there's lots of good people in that area http://www.permaculture.biz/ There's been several new members here in the last month...
From a new blog. 7 Fat and 7 Lean Years by Yeoman Gardener http://www.feastandfamine.blogspot.com/ There is no cheese, no butter, no dry milk powder, no grains...
by Alex Steffen http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008208.html The other night Cory Doctorow and I were talking over coffee, and we got going on an idea...
by Charles Hugh Smith http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjun08/survival6-08.html I'm not trying to be difficult, but I can't help cutting against the grain on...
by Clay Shirky (This is a lightly edited transcription of a speech I gave at the Web 2.0 conference, April 23, 2008.) I was recently reminded of some reading I...
by PS Pirro One of the best pieces of advice I ever read came from Kentucky farmer and author Wendell Berry, who wrote in numerous essays of the importance of...
by Graham at Zone 5 http://zone5.org/2008/08/10/book-review-climate-code-red-the-case-for-emergency-action/ Climate Code Red The Case for Emergency Action ...
by Comrade Simba http://www.comradesimba.com/blog/?p=87 It Can Be Done This is our fifth growing season out here. The first two years was mainly hacking out...
by John Michael Greer One of the lessons of history is that change, no matter how drastic it appears on the pages of history books, is rarely anything like so ...
by Dimitri Orlov This piece started out as a solicited submission to Harvard Business Review for their "List of Breakthrough Ideas." After careful review, it...
By Ian Angus August 24, 2008 -- Will shared resources always be misused and overused? Is community ownership of land, forests and fisheries a guaranteed road...
by John Michael Greer The mismatch between the narratives of sudden apocalypse that shape so much of today's debate about the future, on the one hand, and the ...
by Aaron at http://villageblog.wordpress.com/ You know I will probably never visit the LATOC discussion board when looking for advice on how to handle the...
by Michael Lewis Nov 11 2008 The era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liar's Poker, returns...
Via Chris at Club Orlov I have recently moved from Australia, where Peak Oil issues are just beginning to gain traction belatedly in the mainstream press, to...
by Chris Turner My wife and daughter and I decided to include in our itinerary a few days' stay at Crystal Waters, one of the oldest and most renowned ...
Lloyd Morecom lives in the Sth Gippsland town of Foster and writes a fine blog http://southgippslandfutures.blogspot.com/ this is one of his latest entries The...
Sorry Rob, You post some of the most interesting commentary on the web through Intentional Community Vic, but this one from this guy is a crock of you know...
That's an interesting reaction Andrew, is there any part in particular that "got your goat", or is it the tone in general? I don't think that he's selling any...
Thanks for drawing my attention to this article Rob. My reaction is the opposite to Andrew's. Its a well thought out article that covers a lot of ground. Lloyd...
Hi Rob, The article doesn't get my goat, if anything, it simply reinforces my belief that when it comes to the future and to what is unfolding, there is a...
I have a soft spot for Mirboo North as my sister lives in the centre of town and my mother is on the edge of it, they were all evacuated yesterday and the town...