By Joshua Yates: This excerpt is reprinted with permission from The Hedgehog Review 14.2 (Summer 2012). Why has the term “sustainability” become so popular, and is it useful? Berry: I’ll go out on a limb, and Wes can saw...
Check out this short interview with Michael followed by short 12 ways communities can become economically resilient. Recorded at the FL Small Farms and Alternative Enterprise Conference 2012. View the Prezi More about Local Dollars, Local Sense
The following excerpt is from Chapter 10 of Local Dollars Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Acheive Real Prosperity, published by Chelsea Green. Is it possible to beat Wall Street’s 5...
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By Ellie Winninghoff PCI Board Member Jason Bradford leads the farmland management program at Farmland LP. While farmland is a hot alternative vehicle among institutional investors like Harvard University and TIAA-Cref, some wonder how alternative an investment it really...
In surveying the multiple, uprisings, insurgencies, insurrections, confrontations and what have you currently going on in the Middle East, it is hard to believe that all this turmoil will not eventually find its way to our local gas pumps....
The controversy over whether to green-light the building of the Keystone XL pipeline to connect Canada’s tar sands with refiners on the Gulf coast may not be much in the news anymore, but it’s far from gone. A...
Researchers download data from a center pivot sprinkler, a type of irrigation system commonly used in the U.S. Great Plains, to reconstruct the amount of water and time it took to irrigate an area. Photo by Scott Bauer/USDA In...
Credit: Peak Prosperity | Download Author and social critic James Howard Kunstler has been one of the earliest, most direct, and most articulate voices to warn of the consequences — economic and otherwise — of modern society’s profligate wasting of the resources...
Three simple numbers that add up to global catastrophe – and that make clear who the real enemy is : If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado haven’t convinced you, or the size of your AC bill...
Few would argue with the proposition that within the next 20 or 30 years our current sources of fossil fuels and other somewhat substitutable liquids will be only a fraction of the 90 or so million barrels a day...