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Slow Money: Bringing Money Down to Earth
Woody Tasch has thought a lot about money: what it does, how it moves, and how to connect people who have it with people who need it...But he found that even socially responsible investing couldn't do much to fix an economy that focused too much on extraction and consumption and too little on ...
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Small animals and urban ag - Nov 20
-Female farmers find goats a good, but busy choice -Chickens come home to roost in backyards around the USA -Bite-Sized: Small cattle make big impression -Saving The Bed-Stuy Farm: Choose Better Nutrition, Not Demolition read more
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Sexual Attitudes In Agrarian Life
At one point in this book, I was moved to say—almost blurt out, if one can speak of writing as blurting—that all art is about sex. I made that statement in reaction to Mississippi John Hurt’s remark that all music was about human sexual relationships. read more
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Solutions & sustainability - Nov 19
-Go forth and multiply a lot less -The new wave of urban farming (and fresh food from small spaces!) -Urban farms a fertile idea -Summary Presentation for Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization -The next Industrial Revolution will be people-powered -Sustainability and Social Justice: Do ...
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How to Set Up and Run a Bicycle Repair Company
Many of the articles that discuss the causes and effects of humanity's unprecedented energy use are entirely theoretical, offering little practical guidance for the everyday reader. This essay offers respite to all the people who confront our collective energy problems with a furrowed brow and ...
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How Relocalization Worked
One of the most rarely used resources for relocalization projects is the fact that our species has been this way before -- the twilight years of many other civilizations featured the breakup of centralized economic arrangements and the rise of a new localism. Can insights from past examples ...
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Economics - Nov 18
-Will rising oil prices derail the recovery? -Banks Hasten to Adopt New Loan Rules -Finite Resources: One Possible Explanation for the Financial Crisis -What Is Inflation and How Does One Measure It? -They can make this rally last for years read more
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Food Futures: Strategies for resilient food and farming (pdf)
Our current food systems are precarious and vulnerable to external ‘shocks’. A combination of one or more external factors, such as extreme weather conditions, global conflict or trade disputes could easily disrupt the continuity of food supplies unless we make fundamental changes to the way ...
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China and the world - Nov 18
-Obama and Hu aim to agree greenhouse gas targets -China's empty city -China's Blunt Talk for Obama -Market cornered for rare minerals read more
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Crop to Cuisine: Book Features
Crop To Cuisine stocks the pantry for Thanksgiving. We speak with historians about the truth behind the thanksgiving meal and the turkey. We also feature reports on how people are coping during tough times, and how you can give back. read more
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Dancing the Copenhagen two-step - Nov 17
-Leaders plan a 'two-step' environment deal -The psychology of climate change -Greenland's Ice Sheet Melting Faster than Ever -Rainforests could be traded on world market -Leaders agree Copenhagen will focus on principles, not concrete goals read more
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Feeding the world, climate change, and peak oil - Nov 17
-UN links climate with hunger -Hungry for change -The Links Between Food Security And Climate Change -Agriculture in the Climate Change Negotiations, Platform Issue Paper -The one thing depleting faster than oil is the credibility of those measuring it -Promoting climate-smart agriculture  ...
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Deconstructing Dinner: "The California Drought and Fox News"
We travel to the State of California where 50% of all fresh fruits and vegetables consumed in Canada and the United States are produced. Beyond fresh produce, California is also a major producer of dairy, olives and nuts, and the list of foods goes on. read more
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Food & agriculture - Nov 16
-Program could match Colo.'s next generation of farmers with land, expertise -Feeding the city -The Nitrogen Fix: Breaking a Costly Addiction -Aid Groups, Farmers Collaborate to Re-Green Sahel read more
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Environmental Bioethics—A Manifesto
It is well over a decade now since environmental concerns became pressing enough to command attention in almost all realms of intellectual and practical affairs, and well over four decades since environmental ethics developed as a recognizable field of study in response to a growing set of ...
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Enter the Elephant
In the Happiness Hypothesis , psychology professor Jonathan Haidt compares human brain/behavior to a man riding an elephant. There exists a complex choreography between our newer rational cortex (the 'man'), and our older, more primitive brain structures (the 'elephant'). read more
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The new farm owners
With all the talk about "food security," and distorted media statements like "South Korea leases half of Madagascar's land," it may not be evident to a lot of people that the lead actors in today's global land grab for overseas food production are not countries or ...
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Peak Therapy: Do we Need a Shrink as the World Ends?
This past week I read with fascination the posts by Sally Erickson on “The Culture of Pretend: How Psychotherapy Keeps our Communities Sick” and Kathy McMahon’s response “Bozos On The Couch: What Is ‘Good Therapy’ In A Time of Collapse?” As I’ve pondered these posts, I’m compelled to respond to ...
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The Oceans are Coming Part II - Living on the Land
The Oceans are Coming Part II - Living on the Land
energybulletin.net — Are you still talking about Cyclone Nargis? Have you ever heard of Cyclone Nargis? Here’s a reminder: on 1 May 2008 a weakening low-pressure system suddenly picked up energy as it approached Burma from the Bay of Bengal...The Irrawaddy Delta ... (more) The Oceans are Coming Part II - Living on the Land
Amelia Earhart and the complexity problem
As I watched the recently released film about Amelia Earhart, I couldn't help thinking about parallels between her journey and ours as an industrial culture. read more
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