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Why Permaculture Puts Food First

Why Permaculture Puts Food First “Had we heeded Malthus’s warning and kept the human population to less than one billion, we would not now be facing a torrid future.“ There are seven popular food crops in this picture  When I teach permaculture, and now having done more than 50 full design courses, I try to […]

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The Paris Gravity Well, Part II: Trillionization

The Paris Gravity Well, Part II: Trillionization “We will not suddenly convert steel mills, cement kilns and road surfacing machines to operate on sunbeams.” Charlie said, “That’s the trouble. You see it the way the banking industry sees it and they make money by manipulating money irrespective of effects in the real world. You’ve spent […]

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Antifragile Food Systems

Antifragile Food Systems ‘The alpha person at a gathering of “high status” persons is usually the waiter.’ In the film, No Escape, Owen Wilson and Lake Bell’s characters play a stereotypical USAnian couple, Jack and Annie Dwyer, cast abroad like fishes out of water. He is a corporate engineer in charge of putting a water plant into […]

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Stairway to Heaven

Stairway to Heaven “Let us stop talking about collapse, peak oil, and global weirding and begin a conversation about what is cool and what is uncool.“ In Nine to Five Jane Fonda’s character, Judy Bernly, is the office newbie.  In a scene evoking Lucille Ball on the assembly line, she pushes too many buttons on an enormous Xerox machine and […]

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Snatching Defeat

Snatching Defeat “What we must ask is what we intend to sustain when we speak of sustainability? “ Last week we concluded our post on climate change with a quote from James Hansen, “the matter is urgent and calls for emergency cooperation among nations.” All this year we have been leading up to our collective fin de […]

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The Gift of the Maya

The Gift of the Maya “The Maya forest garden holds, in its ramblings and roots, a hidden-in-plain-sight way through our present crises.” It takes a bit of time for the elegance of a food forest to emerge, something on the order of decades. Strolling the garden through the morning mist in a hot Tennessee summer, […]

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Olduvai IV: Courage
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Olduvai II: Exodus
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