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Changing Habits For Self-Reliance and Resilience
Changing Habits For Self-Reliance and Resilience
Dear Mr. Paulson, Re Your Recent NY Times Op-Ed about Mass Extinction
Dear Mr. Paulson, Re Your Recent NY Times Op-Ed about Mass Extinction Dear Mr. Paulson, You arguably are one of the most powerful, famous, and networked men in the world, with many important accomplishments. I am the completely ordinary, middle class, volunteer steward of 53 acres of publicly owned, remnant floodplain woodland situated on the […]
It’s all happening…..
It’s all happening….. Anyone who has been following this blog long enough will know that I predicted 2020 was crunch time and that we were heading into the mother of all energy crises. As I write, the UK is in deep turmoil, Germany is making contingency plans for blackouts, Lebanon has turned power off, China’s rationing electricity and India is doing the same. Low rainfall […]
The Current Supply Chain Crisis Could Throw The Global Economy Off Course!
The Current Supply Chain Crisis Could Throw The Global Economy Off Course! Be ready! The current supply chain crisis is becoming noticeable to most at this point and it could toss the entire global economy off course. With just the right problem, we could all be facing shortages that would make the toilet paper incident […]
No land, no problem: How a lady farmer converts an idle backyard into a productive urban vegetable garden
No land, no problem: How a lady farmer converts an idle backyard into a productive urban vegetable garden Abi Byrne and her Ocean Grove Farm in Sydney’s Northern Beaches are living proof that you don’t need to own a piece of land to practice permaculture to produce healthy and nutrition-dense food. Since 2019 Abi has […]
15 Common Dynamics of SHTF Collapses
15 Common Dynamics of SHTF Collapses When it comes to how we see and prepare for SHTF, thinking in terms of real and probable rather than fictional and possible can make a big difference. Even though SHTF has many forms and levels and is in essence complex, random, diverse and unsystematic, some patterns and principles are common to the way things unfold […]
Marti’s Corner – 37
Marti’s Corner – 37 * Here is the email I got from USU Extension this week: PLAN Meet with your family or household and discuss the disasters that are most likely to occur. Review basic actions for each situation and decide on a family meeting place. Decide how you’ll contact each other if separated. PREPARE […]
The Future of Water in the U.S. West is Uncertain, So Planning and Preparedness Are Critical
THE FUTURE OF WATER IN THE U.S. WEST IS UNCERTAIN, SO PLANNING AND PREPAREDNESS ARE CRITICAL Water authorities in the Western U.S. don’t know what the future will bring, but they are working collaboratively and with scientific rigor to make sure they’re prepared for anything. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of the Interior In […]
Land Skills Fair: This is What Diversity Looks Like!
Land Skills Fair: This is What Diversity Looks Like! Last week I attended the Land Skills Fair (LSF), an event co-organised by the Landworkers’ Alliance (LWA) and Land in Our Names (LION). The event was intended to be about “sharing knowledge and skills about farming, forestry, crafts, food and land justice”, with an impressive range of talks, workshops, tours […]
Local food ecosystems: A conversation with entrepreneur and author Duncan Catchpole
Local food ecosystems: A conversation with entrepreneur and author Duncan Catchpole Duncan Catchpole, founder and owner of Cambridge Organic Food Co., and an entrepreneur and author, talks to us about his new release, Local Food Ecosystems: How Food Can Help Create a More Sustainable Food System. Duncan advocates for system change, painting the scene of how […]
Things do not have to run out for their scarcity to become destabilizing
Things do not have to run out for their scarcity to become destabilizing Economic cornucopians who believe “innovation” and “substitution” will solve every constraint on the resources needed for modern civilization use a clever piece of misdirection to deflect the arguments of those concerned about limits. These cornucopians say that the claim by the limits crowd that […]
‘Post-Scarcity Anarchism’
‘Post-Scarcity Anarchism’ Murray Bookchin, first published 1971 View the YouTube video of this post ‘A Book in Five Minutes’ Index ‘The Meta-Blog’ Index ‘A Book in Five Minutes’, Podcast no.5: Download this recording as: An MP3 file; or an Ogg Vorbis file Topped by a statue of Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture, what remains of Banbury’s Corn […]
Signs The Worst Winter in Years is Coming
Signs The Worst Winter in Years is Coming “You think winter will never end, and then, when you don’t expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light” – Wendell Berry. It’s hard to think about winter when many regions are broiling in the sun right now, but there are […]
The Coming Trucking Apocalypse – What’s Causing It?
The Coming Trucking Apocalypse – What’s Causing It? “While you’re sleeping, they’re hauling. Have you thanked a trucker?” – Anonymous. Even though the Coronavirus has wreaked havoc in the lives of people worldwide, truckers have been struggling to keep the country moving. Global lockdowns, massive shifts in consumer spending and supply chain issues, raw material […]
Greywater revisited
Greywater revisited Years ago I wrote about the sustainable greywater I installed in Cooran. It was always my intention to do this again, even though such systems, as sustainable as they are, are no longer ‘legal’. I couldn’t give a you know what anymore, the way things are panning out nobody else will either soon….. I actually […]
