Nine meals from anarchy - how Britain is facing a very real food crisis
…There might be 11 million gardeners in Britain, but your delicious summer peas won’t go far when your kids are hungry and the baked beans have run out….
I hope all of you have made steps to feed yourselves, and have more than […]
Remarks given to the Vestas Wind Technology Training Center, today, in Portland, Oregon.
The full text here.
Discuss.
Not much got done outside, there are two inch puddles everywhere. It’s times like these I wish I had more rain barrels: mine are filled, the 5-gallon buckets around them are full, and the water’s still overflowing everything.
Note to self: do not let Shadow (one of our rabbits) go out when it’s raining. Leon (the […]
I figured out the numbers for April (except the water bill’s not in yet) for the Riot for Austerity challenge, and I got a nice surprise!
Here’s the numbers we started out with back in June 2007:
Gasoline: 59% of the American national average
Electricity: 425% (multiple computers, TV’s, and lights on all the time, in an almost […]
This is one of the better conferences I’ve been to so far. They have five tracks (plus a kid’s track tomorrow) for each day. Today I picked the food/permaculture track.
But before that, today I fed and watered bunnies, made breakfast for three teenagers, got said teenagers to school, had to go home and change bunny […]
If you’d like to understand more about what’s happening with oil, take a listen to an interview last month with Matthew Simmons, author of “Twilight in the Desert”, a book documenting the global oil situation:
Part One
Part Two
I found the interview very interesting and informative.
I ran across this article the way I run across a lot of things, read a blog that links to another, that links to yet a third, which links to something really interesting.
This guy is anything but conservative, but you will enjoy this:
Symbol and essence
SUPER TUESDAY is over. Today is Non-Super Wednesday. And regardless […]
This kid has made a working bicycle, completely out of wood!
Designing and building a wooden chain that would actually work without breaking proved the greatest challenge.
Here’s an interesting article, even if it gets a bit weird at the end: The Waking-Up Syndrome
[…] While the sky may not be falling, this day-after-day onslaught of alarming news is making it more difficult simply to overlook the triple threat of environmental, climatic and economic concerns. It’s leaving many of us feeling like Alice […]
The year’s almost over!
Today I spent a little time getting ready for an ice storm that’s on its way. Hopefully it won’t be too bad. The last two meant a couple days stuck inside but we didn’t lose power or anything like some here did.
Here’s some links for the weekend:
“A crime against humanity”
It doesn’t get […]
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