Ask a Food Lawyer: Breaking Down Legal Barriers for Small-Scale Local Food
This is an interview by Michele Simon from Eat Drink Politics, with Janelle Orsi, executive director of the Sustainable Economies Law Center Janelle Orsi is an attorney in Oakland, California who practices “sharing law.” In addition to her law...
The Peak Oil Crisis: The Middle East in Context
While awaiting further developments in the Syrian poison gas crisis, it is a good time to review the general deterioration going on across the Middle East and the outlook for oil production from the region. Hardly a month goes...
What Van Gogh can teach us about education and learning
While many people’s summer reading might have consisted of the new Dan Brown book or perhaps the JK Rowling book that wasn’t by her and then was, mine focused on Vincent Van Gogh. As we focus for this month’s...
Josh Farley: The Foundation for a New Economy
Josh Farley, a professor of Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont was the keynote speaker Friday night in Madison, WI for the dedication of the Farley Center for Peace, Justice, and Sustainability. I caught up with Josh after...
The Peak Oil Crisis: A Review of Richard Heinberg’s ‘Snake Oil’
Richard Heinberg has been following and writing about peak oil for a long time. In the last decade, he has published 10 books on peak oil and related resource depletion topics as well as given some 500 lectures warning...
Movements without leaders: What to make of life on an overheating planet
The history we grow up with shapes our sense of reality — it’s hard to shake. If you were young during the fight against Nazism, war seems a different, more virtuous animal than if you came of age during...
Change the Course: Hope for “Troubled Waters”
Sandra Postel views the world through a water lens, advocating for all to make simple and easy changes to their everyday lives that will help “Change the Course” of the Earth’s precious supply of freshwater.
Our Work: Erika Allen, Farmer
Erika Allen, the Chicago and National Projects director for Growing Power, talks about the importance of farming and how it impacts civilization as well as the similarities in today’s practices as she examines an ancient clay sickle from Chogha...
Richard Heinberg on Natural Gas: Bridge Fuel or Fool’s Gold?
Credit: Seachange Radio | Download We’ve spoken to Richard Heinberg in the past about several problems inherent to our carbon-based economy, from peak oil, to coal to what he has dubbed “the end of growth.” Now the author and senior fellow at the Post...
A Foodshed View of Resilience
“Resilience” may be a somewhat new term in the lexicon of forward-thinkers, but the concept is by no means entirely new, and it has a direct tie to another useful word: “foodshed.” The photograph above depicts New Yorkers lining...