Solutions & sustainability – Oct 21
Seed balls /
UK: win a place on the Life After Oil course /
Becoming native /
David Korten on the Great Turning: from empire to earth community /
Green chimney could save the planet
Food & Water
Climate: Australian drought – Oct 19
Aussies busy battling worst drought ever /
Wheat harvest forecast slashed /
Plan to ship water /
Farmers told to move north ‘where water is’ /
When all the rivers run dry /
Australian farmers driven to suicide by drought
Food & agriculture – Oct 15
Grain stockpiles at lowest for 25 years
Australia: Farming economy in ‘drought crisis’
Kansas: Aquifer crisis for agriculture
The Vegetable-Industrial Complex
The Politics on Our Plates
Organic®
Food & agriculture – Oct 13
How Long Can the World Feed Itself?
Time to become a “locavore”
Locavores in Willits?
Breakfast of Chumps
Green is the New Black in Ethical Britain
Economics: The Sound of Aunt Edna’s Knitting
As today’s economics of imaginary wealth comes apart under the stress of peak oil, talk about a “new economy” misses the point. What’s needed — and can be built, starting with actions on a personal scale — is an old economy, in which money exchanges play a much smaller role.
Water – Oct 10
Water for millions at risk as glaciers melt
Monbiot: The freshwater boom is over
$3 water purifier could save lives
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 29
Billy goat not gruff about his responsibilities
Urban farming: city pickers
A summer spent killing—and eating—Seattle’s small game
A reflection on cities of the future
We will be lucky if we can make the transition from our current circumstances to a future of re-sized, re-scaled cities and a reactivated productive rural landscape outside them, with a hierarchy of hamlets, villages, and towns in between, and some ability to conduct commerce and manufacturing.
Permablitzing the suburbs
A permablitz is a permaculture-inspired backyard makeover where people come together to share knowledge and skills about organic food production in urban gardens while building community and having fun.
Backyard Aquaponics
Aquaponics is a system of integrated fish tanks and hydroponic vegetable beds, which may have a lot to offer for high intensity urban food production.
Transition Town Totnes
Totnes is the UK’s first town exploring issues of how to prepare for peak oil. TTT is a community-led initiative which is working towards the creation of an Energy Descent Action Plan for the town.
Food & agriculture – Sept 25
Spinach, feedlots and knowing the backstory
Don’t cry to them, Argentina
Gateses’ approach to African hunger is bound to fail