ACT Peak Oil

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In East London’s Nomadic Community Garden, Bangladeshi families tend beds of eggplant, squash, and other seasonal vegetables alongside their non-Bangladeshi neighbors.

I attended the annual conference of the Ohio Ecological Food And Farm Association recently and as usual it really lifted my spirits

A midweek update. Oil prices have been steady for nearly two weeks now with New York futures trading within a dollar or so of $32 a barrel and London trading around $34.

The last couple of weeks in American politics have offered an interesting confirmation of some of the main themes I’ve discussed on this blog.

What’s better than tearing out your water guzzling, time-consuming lawn and replacing it with more sustainable, more appropriate plants?

Although growth-critique is currently in vogue and degrowth is mentioned favorably even by the pope in his most recent encyclical, there is as yet almost no scientific research on degrowth as a social movement.

The practical and economic challenges faced by those involved in farming are enormous. But just as important are the psychological and emotional ones, especially when working collaboratively within a group.

Earlier this week, the British government announced a new Tory-led parliamentary measure that will inflict “severe penalties” onto local governments and public institutions that boycott goods and services on an “ethical” (as opposed to purely financial) basis, including divestment.

Exponential economic growth is rapidly destabilizing the biosphere.

We have to keep 80 percent of the fossil-fuel reserves that we know about underground.

Most people I know -- left or right, American or European, religious or not -- are different only in the brand of information provider they use, and all accept the information given to them as though it were real experience.

After a delay of several months the US Energy Information Administration has published the latest international energy statistics for October 2015

The Rules is a worldwide network of activists working to transform the politico-economic structure undergirding global inequality.

Food hubs and farm-to-school programs are essential mechanisms in increasing access to food produced locally and sustainably.

Land clearing has returned to Queensland in a big way.

No one can logically persuade somebody to fall in love.

Since the renewable energy revolution will require trading our currently dominant energy sources (fossil fuels) for alternative ones that have different characteristics, there are likely to be some hefty challenges along the way.

It is lambing season at Bodega Pastures ranch and we are headed out to the pastoral landscapes of ‘west county’ Sonoma to meet the shepherds, their flock, and the new lambs that call this ranch home.

Mental health problems and debt finance are strongly linked.