If you’re looking to stock up on food and other grocery items, Amazon.com’s subscribe and save
program is one I’m really coming to like. You can order whatever they have and decide how often to get it.
For example, I get a case of Kleenex (we have allergies) every six months. They send an email before they [...]
I just ran across an interesting site called Window Farms. The idea is to use the light and space of a vertical window to raise food plants in:
Their blog is quite fun to read, and gave me some ideas about what to do with a couple of windows in my house.
The one thing depleting faster than oil is the credibility of those measuring it
The challenge of feeding seven or eight billion people while oil supplies are falling is stupefying. It’ll be even greater if governments keep pretending that it isn’t going to happen.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
(hint: Iran is the fat purple line)
Sharon Astyk wrote a blog post the other day entitled Dreaming A Life that spoke of something I’ve been thinking about for a while now: why do we do what we do?
Why, when there is so much new attention to climate change, so much scientific consensus and so much activism, are governments so reluctant to [...]
Dmitry Orlov does it again: Definancialisation, Deglobalisation, Relocalisation
I’m in the middle of reading this and it’s just a great article.
One quote I really like:
It is an unfortunate fact that the recent centuries of settled life, and especially the last century or so of easy living based on the industrial model, has made many people too [...]
This Saturday, as part of the five day long deadCENTER film festival here in OKC (which starts today!), a group of short films will be featured dealing with issues of sustainability and food.
Information below or visit deadCENTER’s website www.deadcenterfilm.org
Sustainability Focus Films
Saturday, June 13th at [...]
Natural World — A Farm for the Future (49 min, safe for work/children)
Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family’s farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers that nature holds the key.
We had a week or so of nice weather and now we’re back to cold again. And that reminded me of the “Freeze Yer Buns” challenge, and that I hadn’t written about how that went since I started participating.
At first everyone whined and moaned about how cold it was, except my husband who likes it [...]
Boy, Crunchy Chicken is going gung-ho with the challenges! She’s got a local Thanksgiving one (which I probably should join, but right this second I don’t know where my free range turkey came from…), a fall book club going, and (this is the one I’m doing) the Freeze Yer Buns challenge, to turn down the [...]
Miranda Edel (of Riot for Austerity fame) got a wonderful video/article done about her in her local news. Go take a look.
Such an improvement over the dismal (and bordering on dangerous; she felt scared people might try and take her kids away from the way they wrote about her home!) article Sharon Astyk got in [...]
I’ve brought Shadow out, collected some weeds for the rabbits, composted a bunny bin, brushed a lot of fur off of Shadow (who sits patiently on my lap while I tug the brush through her hair), and now I’m waiting for the guy to come and service our heating system in preparation for the winter. [...]
Because that implies we’re not independent, and considering the matter, I tend to agree.
Take a look at this article: Why “Drill, Baby, Drill” does not translate into effective national energy policy . Lots of good information, but the key to the issue lies right here:
[...] the faster we use up the little oil we have [...]
I realized that I haven’t posted my doings for a while. Here goes:
Planted: Parsley. I also have these carrot plants that sent up lovely white flowers, which are now brown and curled up into a cup-like structure at the top of their stalks. I know that’s where they keep the seeds, so today I rubbed [...]
Here’s an article I just ran across: No Hope for a Sensible Energy Policy
THERE IS A REASON I chose “Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here” as the subtitle of the study of energy policy I just completed under the auspices of the Washington-based Hudson Institute. That reason: decades of listening to politician leaders [...]
I honestly still don’t know who, if anyone, I’m going to vote for.
McCain’s speech (what I heard of it so far) didn’t really excite me. (in the interest of full disclosure, I had a headache, had taken allergy medicine, and fell asleep through part of it; I’m going to find it on YouTube and listen [...]
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