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FOOD: Growing Community Food Systems

Food systems can be a very powerful tool for resilience. In a revolutionary way, you can completely transform things without people realizing what's happening.

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Can Goldilocks stop this runaway train?

By the time enough of us realize that we're about to run out of track on the fossil-fueled, growth-based economy we've created, will we be able to slam on the brakes enough to avoid hitting the proverbial wall?

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POPULATION: The Multiplier of Everything Else

When it comes to controversial issues, population is in a class by itself.

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9 Challenges of Alternative Energy (Free PDF)

Unlike conventional fossil fuels, where nature provided energy over millions of years to convert biomass into energy-dense solids, liquids, and gases--requiring only extraction and transportation technolgy for us to mobilize them--alternative energy depends heavily on...

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We’re hot as hell and we’re not going to take it any more

So now we know what we didn’t before: making nice doesn’t work. It was worth a try, and I’m completely serious when I say I’m grateful they made the effort, but it didn’t even come close to working. So we better try something else.

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FOOD: Growing Community Food Systems

Erika Allen Sep 1, 2010

Food systems can be a very powerful tool for resilience. In a revolutionary way, you can completely trasform things without people realizing what's happening. >>

Five Years After Katrina, An Important Lesson Goes Unlearned

Sandra Postel Aug 30, 2010

[Excerpt] It's getting harder and harder to blame Mother Nature for the disasters that befall humanity. While hurricanes, floods, droughts and storm surges are … >>

Veils, Boomerangs, and Goldilocks

Asher Miller Aug 28, 2010 3 comments

There's a lot to digest in Michael Lewis' The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine but I was particularly struck by a passage at the very end of the book, which I … >>

Beyond Oil: Activism and Politics

Bill McKibben Aug 26, 2010

[Excerpt] On May 6, a little more than two weeks after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, the first oil washed ashore. It was found on the beaches … >>

Save it for the combine

Jason Bradford Aug 24, 2010

I have been visiting A2R Farms outside of Corvallis Oregon all year. They are a former conventional grass seed farm transitioning to organic seed crops, primarily for … >>

Community Economic Laboratories (CELs)

Richard Heinberg Aug 23, 2010 4 comments

As America adjusts to the New Reality of tight credit, chronically less-affordable energy, high unemployment rates, rising levels of homelessness, and steeply declining … >>

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