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Yet again, I come to you asking for recommendations to improve the Bibliography of the AIP book. So tell me – what are your favorite garden books?
Sharon
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Love the Peak Oil Hausfrau – you’ve got to take her “what are you doing to prep” quiz and find out what category you fall into.
http://peakoilhausfrau.blogspot.com/2009/11/peak-oil-prep-strategies.html
Me, I guess I’m the trite A, but I’m thinking of ...
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I’m not complaining, mind you, but sometimes I’m pretty surprised by the path things take in my life. I don’t mean the farm or the goats or the fact that I actually butcher chickens. I don’t mean the writing career, although that was a surprise of sorts. I mean my ...
Environment
Because I am on the mail and email list of every seed company in creation, I am spending a lot of time trying not to read plant variety descriptions. You see, I have other things to do. But it is hard. Seed catalogs are porn for garden people like me – I find myself beginning to enter ...
Environment
I’ve gottten literally dozens of emails begging me to weigh in on the East Anglia climate scandal, and for a while, I was reluctant to do so, because ultimately, paying attention to something so inane just gives it credibility. We’re back, again, to the old battles over climate ...
Environment
Climate Change
So lots of new stuff coming up here. First of all, the official new blog announcement. I’m moving to www.scienceblogs.com . This is awesome for several reasons – first of all, it should mean a larger audience, many of whom may have come in contact with the environmental science, ...
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For all of us, time is a difficult commodity to come by – sometimes even harder than money. And our current situation is particularly difficult for people who are both preparing and living their ordinary lives – that is, at the same time you still have to go to work and take care ...
Green Living
Perhaps because Thanksgiving is the one American holiday where even Americans who don’t cook do, at least a little, it is a good time to talk about food traditions. So what’s yours? What does your family eat at Thanksgiving or during the rest of the year that everyone else ...
Other
It’ll be quiet here for a bit. I’ve got guests this weekend, and a lovely birthday bash to throw for Simon on Sunday, and almost immediately afterwards, we are leaving for Boston and Thanksgiving with my extended family. I’ll probably have a thought or two about my favorite ...
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Rowan Williamson, Archbishop of Canterbury, has given a lovely speech on the central question of our times – what is our economy for? Thanks to Rod Dreher for pointing it out:
“‘Economy’ is simply the Greek word for ‘housekeeping’. Remembering this is a ...
Green Living
There was a lot of attention last week to Sesame Street’s 40th birthday. For Eric and me, 39 and 37, well, we just can’t remember a time when Sesame Street didn’t exist. My family didn’t always have a television, but Sesame Street is one of my enduring childhood ...
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sharonastyk.com - 15 days ago
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So here are the numbers. One in nine
(and probably soon one in eight) families need food...
stamps to keep food on the table. And despite the fact that we are subsidizing food at a vast rate – seriously, think about the enormous impact of ...
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Hunger in the US
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found this 15 days agofound this
If you want to make a traditional Thanksgiving dinner wholly from scratch, you start ahead of time. If you want to make it from food you’ve raised yourself, you start way, way ahead of time – like in January of the year before. In some ways, it starts even earlier, but January is ...
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Turkey
I get requests for advice about writing fairly often in email. Some of them are people who have written something already, and want to know how to get more attention for it – how to get a manuscript published, or how to get more readership for their blogs. Others have broader questions ...
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Kjell Aleklett should really pretty much stop talking about climate change, because he looks like a fool when he does. And that’s not a good thing, given that he’s not one - on energy he’s done deeply important work, and I’d hate to see people dismiss it because he says ...
Environment
Climate Change
Energy Efficiency
Global Warming
Oil Drilling
It was the quiet week in between weeks of chaos. First I was away twice in two weeks, meaning Eric soloed for 10 days out of 14, or was away himself. All the travel was good, but it meant a lot of things were up in the air. Then, finally the travel and the event I ran at our shul were over, ...
Green Living
So there’s his new coal book, which I haven’t even had a chance to finish my review of, and now Heinberg and Jerry Mander have put together an analysis the possibilities of *any* energy resource to meet needs to 2100?!?! The man writes books and major papers faster than I read them ...
Energy/Transportation
Richard Land
Robyn at her Adapting-In-Place Blog has what I think is a superbly dark and funny piece about the pains of accepting public assistance. I think it is well worth a read: http://adaptinginplace.blogspot.com/2009/11/ah-long-time-no-post.html She lists the rules that people who accept public ...
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I head off into the weekend with a reminder that if you are in the lower Hudson Valley and want to come say hi, I’ll be at Millbrook Winery from 1-4 on Saturday signing books and chatting people up!
I’ve also got some news. Over on facebook, I’ve been hinting at big changes ...
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Hi Folks – The weekly friday “what to put in your pantry update is here.” This week, we’re going to focus on the three sisters – corn, squash and beans. The beans are particularly important, because they provide much needed protein. You can actually use any dry ...
