Reprinted from Energy bulletin.
by Jeff Cox, author of The Organic Cook’s Bible.
It’s vitally important to know your growers and suppliers. Here are several correlates if you want truly great-tasting, fresh food. Like all generalizations, there are exceptions, but for the most part these rules hold true:
The Smaller the Farm, the Better the Food
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A terrifying article from Alternet.
Meanwhile, overfishing has created some 150 “dead zones” — oxygen-free patches of ocean that can sustain no life — around the world: Some of these patches, Grescoe tells us forebodingly, “are now as large as Ireland.” In search of seafloor-dwelling species such as the trendy monkfish — long ignored, then popularized [...] Read more »
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Interview with Vandana Shiva on Alternet.
Vandana Shiva: One aspect of the inconsistency is between the principles of Gaia, the principles of soil, the ecology, renewability, how the atmosphere cleans itself and the laws of the global marketplace. The global marketplace is driven by the World Bank and the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the illogic [...] Read more »
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Posted in books, useful media on May 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Posted in health on May 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Don’t believe in homoeopathy? Perhaps this article on Rense.com will change your mind.
We include it here because it is a system of medicine that looks at the person as a whole, in the same way that we argue that the planet should be regarded as a complete living entity. You can’t seperate symptoms from emotions, [...] Read more »
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Posted in collapse, sane words on May 24th, 2008 No Comments »
C-Realm podcast:
Dmitry Orlov, author of Reinventing Collapse, details the Collapse Party Platform: a list of initiatives that acknowledge the danger of collapse and, if implemented, would make near-future America a more livable place than the destination that political business-as-usual will produce. After that, Ran Prieur shines a harsh but instructive light of reality on a [...] Read more »
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Posted in collapse, sane words on May 24th, 2008 No Comments »
More sound words from Carloyn Baker.
I believe that the collapse of civilization, now accelerating at dizzying speed, is indeed a collective, planetary initiation of the human species. It involves all of us, not just those “clueless Americans out there”, and it will deliver to each of us countless unwanted ordeals on every level-physical, emotional, financial, [...] Read more »
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An excerpt from Sharon Astyk’s book, Depletion and Abundance:
If we were to ask “Where do we need energy the most?” we would get a very different answer. Perhaps the most bang for our fossil-fueled buck comes in health care. In fact, when anyone suggests moving to a much lower-energy society, the most disturbing and frightening [...] Read more »
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Posted in collapse on May 21st, 2008 No Comments »
An Eye-Opening Personal Experience on Eco-Anxiety.
Stage One: Denial
With recent documentaries, widespread news reports, and nearly unanimous scientific consensus on the challenges arising from environmental issues, it has to be harder now to deny their existence or significance. This may account for why there were not too many outright denials and for the edgy tone of [...] Read more »
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