Archive for October, 2009

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Free book

Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization by Lester R. Brown
This is mostly talking about climate changes and their implications for society, but it does have some discussions about population pressures and energy concerns. I just started reading this, and  so far it’s better than the title (which I find a bit pretentious). You [...]

Some musings

Gas prices are going up again, and it looks like that small spike in crude oil production back in 2008 is still holding as the peak of global oil production. (the little star on the black line of reality is what I’m referring to in all that speculation) Are we at the top of the [...]

Backyard perennial food series

Take a look at this four-part (actually set up as six short videos) video series by Eric Toensmeier, author of Perennial Vegetables: From Artichokes to Zuiki Taro, A Gardener’s Guide to Over 100 Delicious and Easy to Grow Edibles (which I just happen to have at home). Seeing what can be done in urban Massachusetts, [...]

All sorts of stuff going on

Crunchy Chicken’s doing another Freeze Yer Buns challenge.

There are a couple of people selling poultry at great prices here: I’m off to pick up some $5 chickens. Not a pound, a CHICKEN. My friend got 40 of them and they are HUGE. I ordered 5 as I don’t have room in my freezer for more [...]

Nice video

Check out this Oklahoma City video “The Cost of Green”
There’s a lot of good stuff here about the costs and savings of “green” practices and technology in Oklahoma.

A bit of an update

Between two kids in marching band and getting the garden (and rabbits) ready for winter, it’s been busy here.
This is our first year with the whole marching band thing, but it’s been a lot of fun, not to mention getting to know all the other parents and their children (or should I say, young men [...]