All stories The Pedagogy of Collapse I owe John Michael Greer a beer, or maybe two. Now that he’s moved to this half of the continent, I may yet have a chance to offer him one. Over the years of writing, Greer and I have argued and allied, worked together and apart, had our books
All stories Letter to the Met [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gKRl5lsPOA]Letter to the Met [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gKRl5lsPOA] The police demanded to know the location of the Camp for Climate Action 2009 – this is our response. Images by kind permission of: Amy Scaife, Amelia Gregory, Mike Russell and Mike Langridge
All stories Square Foot Gardening: How to Install Drip Irrigation [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScAfQKisLo]Square Foot Gardening: How to Install Drip Irrigation [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScAfQKisLo] Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl, installs her square foot garden with drip irrigation. To set up your own system, check out https://www.dripworksusa.com From: GardenGirltv [https:
All stories 200 Urban Farms in Havana Havana relies on 200 urban farms known as organoponicos The vegetable gardeners of Havana By Sarah Murch BBC Two’s Future of Food August 2009 Climate change, drought, population growth – they could all threaten future food supplies. But global agriculture, with its dependence on fuel and fertilisers is also highly
All stories Chinese group buying explained > The Chinese Internet is more developed from a social perspective than in the West. There are more people who are participating in these kinds of conversations, and they are more active. Nice article on Tuangou [https://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/07/16/online.shopping.china/], Chinese ‘group buying’
All stories Container Gardening: Bare Root Cherry Tree [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMCstzjx5rU]Container Gardening: Bare Root Cherry Tree [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMCstzjx5rU] Patti, the Garden Girl, puts dwarf fruit trees into her patio container garden. Check out my Container Drainage Video for more info. Subscribe to Patt's free magazine! Click
All stories Who Has The Best Taste? OneTaste does. If you have been to a UK festival in the last few years, chances are that at some point you found yourself dancing in the OneTaste [https://onetaste.co.uk/] tent. Having residency at Glastonbury [https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/], Big Chill [https://www.bigchill.net/] and Secret Garden Party
All stories 350 Days in the life of a retreating glacier [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dFbuaz130c]350 Days in the life of a retreating glacier [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dFbuaz130c] 350 days in the life of the retreating Mendenhall glacier near Juneau, Alaska. 350.org http The Extreme Ice Survey is the most wide-ranging glacier study ever
All stories Argentina: Turning around Argentina: Turning Around An Interview with Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young July 22, 2009 By Ben Dangl Ben Dangl’s ZSpace Page Join ZSpace Argentina: Turning Around is an exciting film which captures the spirit of Argentina’s grassroots response to economic meltdown. Drawing from diverse interviews and incredible footage,
Accomplishments CEB Prototype II Finished After 16 days of active build, the Compressed Earth Block (CEB) press prototype II is finished. You can compare this to Prototype I video [https://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=91] in a previous post. We are well on our way to our first significant product release. See the progress from
All stories Flat vegetables. Not slim tomatoes, narrow cucumbers or squashed, um, squashes – no, we’re talking about digging for victory in our own meagre abodes. With allotment [https://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php] waiting lists stretching beyond a century in Hackney and not many of us owning the half-county some how-to
adapting in place Everything You Need to Know…In Order Note: Ok, this is another repeat – I’m so head deep in the summer canning and stuff that my brain seems to have shut off for the duration. Like my title? Never let it be said I’m not ambitious. A student in my class asked me for a list
All stories John Lewis: Worker Management That Works? From today’s Independent: Streets ahead: Does John Lewis offer a revolutionary way forward for big business? John Lewis is Britain’s best-loved, most employee-friendly retailer. And business is booming. Martin Hickman wonders if there’s a connection.. Thursday, 20 August 2009 The Independent As he emerged into the sunlight
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All stories Camp for Climate Action Image by Mia Overgaard [https://www.miaovergaard.com/] The Camp for Climate Action [https://www.climatecamp.org.uk/] 2009 is almost upon us – now’s the time to gather ourselves and prepare to swoop. Convinced that the response to climate change needs more? Ready to share skills, knowledge and experiences?
All stories Culture Change: The problem of denial This is a timeless article by William Catton, Jr., author of the seminal “Overshoot” and Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Washington State University. The phenomenon of human psychological denial is one of the most significant traits that is maladaptive to the present culture. Find article here: https://www.culturechange.org/
All stories Cor! - UK Pirate Party's Smart Move The UK Pirate Party has published its “core beliefs [https://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2009/aug/14/our-core-beliefs/]“: > 1. The reform of Copyright and Patent Laws 2. The protection of our Right to Privacy 3. The protection of our Right to Freedom of Speech What’s interesting is
All stories Walkable Neighborhoods Are Worth More A new study shows that people will pay more for walkable neighborhoods. You may have already heard of Walk Score [https://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008231.html] — an endlessly entertaining Internet tool that lets people discover how pedestrian-friendly their neighborhood is. Walk Score ranks neighborhood “walkability” based on the mix
All stories Observations on apocalypse [https://www.dark-mountain.net/wordpress/2009/08/18/observations-on-apocalypse/durer/] Today I’m engaging in a long and occasionally heated debate with George Monbiot [https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/aug/17/environment-climate-change] in the pages of the Guardian about the future of civilisation. And yes, it is
All stories Pulling the wool from over our eyes On August 12th at 1pm, hundreds of New Zealanders paused for five minutes with woolly hats over their eyes. We then lifted our hats together, showing that we will not have the wool pulled over our eyes about the possibilities for real action on climate change. Scientists say that an
All stories Carbon Offsets: A Dangerous Distraction Friends of the Earth explain why offsetting is a dangerous distraction from the urgent business of decarbonizing the world’s economies. CDM and related offset plans can’t be reformed: they must be scrapped. The following is the Executive Summary of Friends of the Earth’s new report, A Dangerous
All stories The Edible Schoolyard Book At a time when our Enviro Schools programe is being challenged by funding cuts, here is some inspiration to show what is possible. Do we need funding to do this, or can we self-organise and bring this sort of wisdom to our local schools, ourselves? This video was created by
All stories King Corn (2007) [https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WfUkkzprTKM/SoVFfDe7LyI/AAAAAAAACiE/sC4kV4Q2PWg/s1600-h/cornposter1.jpg] King Corn (2007) King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on
All stories OSE TV Interview - Austria Tour We just got a copy of this TV interview that we did back on the OSE tour in Austria [https://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=637]. Michaela [https://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=683] from Earthship Austria [https://www.earthship.at/] organized this particular event. The interview took place at a local