Relocalization, Peak Oil and Climate Change Planning for the Ocean State

Archive for August, 2009

Poetry from Climate Camp London

Thursday, August 27th, 2009 Posted in Humor, Culture/The Arts, Economy, climate change | No Comments »

Wish I knew his name, but his poem says it all.

NYT:Peak oil? What peak oil?

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 Posted in False Solutions, Energy, peak oil | No Comments »

Michael Lynch, in a New York Times op-ed attempts to ease our fears about peak oil. You can be assured that the rebuttals are already brewing over at sites like The Oil Drum. Here's a good article by Chris Nelder.

Apocalypse later? I’m going local now

Monday, August 17th, 2009 Posted in Preparedness, Relocalization, adaptation | No Comments »

Great article by Doug Fine in the Washington Post.

From the mouths of teens

Monday, August 17th, 2009 Posted in Environmental cleanup, non-human rights, Human Impact, ethics, general, Conservation, deep ecology | No Comments »

This video is making the rounds now, but actually comes from a speech by Severin Suzuki at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. Severin is the daughter of Dr. David Suzuki. Could any corporate or government leader look her in ...

Garden page updates; Logsdon and Astyk on farming

Monday, August 3rd, 2009 Posted in Gardening/Farming, community gardens, food production | No Comments »

Our Community Garden page is (finally) updated. Check out what we've been doing since, um, March or so. Gene Logsdon looks at farming practices pre-"Green Revolution." and Sharon Astyk's long-awaited book, A Nation of Farmers, is now available. A review to ...