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 [...]
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 [...]
I don’t know about your area, but the one thing I noticed when first coming to Oklahoma was a) the obsession with large lawns, and b) the sheer amount of chemicals and poisons used to take care of them.
If you’d like to get away from the last part, here’s an article you might find interesting. [...]
They didn’t sit around waiting for the state to repair the flood-damaged road to Kauai’s major park (which supposedly cost $4 million that the state of Hawaii didn’t have and were told would take two years to repair). Their businesses depended on the revenue that visitors to the park brought in; they faced bankruptcy if [...]
It’s also about human decency.
From Gourmet magazine:
A little slavery is okay, just not too much of it.
At this writing, that appears to be the official government position in the state of Florida, and it could explain why the fields of the Sunshine State provide such fertile ground for modern-day slavery. In the past dozen [...]
Take a look here.
It will amaze you.
A quote from the movie IOUSA, which I’m watching online right now.
So far, it’s pretty amazing. And frightening.
Here’s a link to Patti Moreno’s newest video about her hydroponic system. She gets 700 seedlings every three weeks! In the video, she says that translates to $1400 in sales at her market stand.
That particular video is an overview of her set-up, but she has this other video showing her setting it up. Looks like [...]
A picture from Sad Guys on Trading Floors …
By way of Jon Stewart
Who I think is a pretty funny guy.
(warning: reference to a bad word is in the title of the video, so if that makes you crazy don’t click.)
You can’t. Do it all.
I’ve talked to a lot of people who say, “well, I can’t do [insert whatever thing they're worried about here], so why bother doing anything?”
You can’t do everything yourself. That’s why we have towns, instead of everyone living on their own back 40. Even the pioneers went into town to get [...]
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 [...]
I’ve been following a free online video series called The Crash Course, and I wanted to tell you about it:
The Crash Course seeks to provide you with a baseline understanding of the economy so that you can better appreciate the risks that we all face.
And boy, does it!
Now, I took Economics in college, so I [...]
For some reason, I’ve been finding a lot of finance articles out there. Here’s one I thought was particularly good: Get out of credit card debt now!
Before my husband and I got married (21 years ago this week), we decided that if we ever couldn’t pay the balance on a credit card then we would [...]
Living the high life is not necessarily a good thing: Five signs that you’re living beyond your means
Many people in America are living beyond their means, as personal savings rates are at their lowest levels since the Great Depression, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Dwindling savings mean that U.S. households are taking [...]
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