We are facing many problems in the world, like climate change, peak oil, financial collapse, resource wars over access to fossil fuels, and environmental catastrophes like the collapse of sea life in the ocean. Any of these are seriously difficult problems, and they’re hitting us all at the same time.…
Those of us wanting to practice self-sufficiency, to grow our own food, and generally live a low-tech lifestyle, will find Practical Projects for Self-Sufficiency a good guidebook. This is a book that’s not only chock full of ideas for living a low-tech self-sufficient lifestyle, growing your own food and all…
How can anyone whose job creates lots of problems in the world live with themselves? The problems created by some jobs are obvious. For example gasoline station attendants are enablers to all the ills that come from burning gasoline. The job of an “insect/pest control” workers is spraying poison in…
Do we want a car that burns a different fuel? Or do we want to vastly improve the world around us? Some of us want to do the latter. Some of us recognize that the ills our society faces is much more than just changing one kind of car for…
I found this picture, clearly taken above the Alberta Tar Sands, posted on Google+ and the comments below it talked about GREED and how GREED is destroying the planet and RESOURCE WAR’s. I tend to agree with the sentiment, but think we all have to be honest about this picture.…
The Transition Town Movement is only six years old, but has spread virally around the world with each new Transition group that takes up the cause. The “cause” in this case is a reawakening of local community structures, and local economies, so that each place is more self sufficient and…
