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Solutions & sustainability
Energy Bulletin - — ... homepage Permaculture Future?: Part I Sharon Astyk, Casaubon's Book Recently, Dmitry Orlov offered a selection of possible topics for a talk he was giving, and several of them dealt with the ubiquity of permaculture as the articulated solution to our present crisis. Orlov’s point was that a consensus seems to be emerging that permaculture strategies - particularly the Transition movement - have emerged as the de facto solution to our collective crisis without a lot of public conversation or questioning. I didn’t get to hear Dmitry’s commentary on this subject (although I can ...

Grief made in America is not "good grief"
Energy Bulletin - — ... no bones about her distaste for his vapid music, Sharon is struggling to access the core of the outpouring of "grief" around Jackson's death. One conclusion she draws is that "The explanation is this - we love grief itself. It is so much fun to feel bad, to mourn, to grieve." Yet Sharon is in no way putting down the importance of grief. Even though she would roll her New York eyes at the thought of most things touchy-feely, especially as she recently wrote, anything that involves standing or sitting in a circle , and even though her East Coast perspective is much more ...