beyond organic | Dismantle Civilisation

An interesting piece on wildness contrasted with sustainability, from the new going feral blog:

Wildness
Everything on this earth is inherently wild – if it lives and dies, it is part of the wildness that is life. Our word ‘will’ is rooted in the word wild; the will of a creature – the will of the land, [...] Read more »

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Homestead Aesthetics

Posted in beyond organic, sane words on Jul 10th, 2009 No Comments »

Wealth itself is unsustainable. This is a hard message for people who have lived their whole lives being told that affluence is their goal. A practical and painful reality is that the world cannot afford rich people anymore. By rich, I do not mean the absurdly wealthy, although certainly those too – [...] Read more »

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salsify – wild permaculture with feralkevin

Posted in beyond organic, permaculture on Jun 29th, 2009 2 Comments »

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More Free Range Humans Needed

Posted in act local, anti-civ 101, beyond organic, collapse, not 'hope', peak food, peak oil, sane words on Jun 17th, 2009 1 Comment »

Definancialisation, Deglobalisation, Relocalisation
Another long but brilliant article, this time by Dmitry Orlov, reprinted from Club Orlov.
This talk was presented at The New Emergency Conference in Dublin, on June 11, 2009.

1. Good morning.
The title of this talk is a bit of a mouthful, but what I want to say can be summed up in simpler [...] Read more »

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Agriculture: Unsustainable Resource Depletion Began 10,000 Years Ago

Posted in beyond organic, collapse, peak food, permaculture, population, rewilding, selfsufficiency, sustainability on Jun 16th, 2009 6 Comments »

This is a very long, but brilliantly well researched essay by Peter Salonius, taken from The Oil Drum. The basic premise is that we stopped being sustainable thousands of years ago (this is the general feeling of most anti-civ writers working today) and that without phenomenal population reductions in tandem with a complete cultural change [...] Read more »

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A Better Way of Making a Living

Posted in beyond organic, resistance, sustainability on Jun 11th, 2009 No Comments »

Chuck Burr, at culturechange.org writes about how we might begin to extricate ourselves from the empire.
Making a living in our modern culture usually requires that you participate in the destruction of the world. We can’t go back to Homo hunter-gatherer. Is there another way forward?
There is an another way to make a living that [...] Read more »

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Look on the Bright Side – Richard Heinberg

Posted in beyond organic, collapse, cooperation, not 'hope', peak oil, resistance on Jun 6th, 2009 No Comments »

I imagine there are people, those of us who care passionately about forests, oceans, wildlife, nature in all her magnificent glory, who have been recognising just how good for the planet the ‘global economic downturn’, as its being called, is. Richard Heinbergs latest Museletter post says what i suspect many of us have been [...] Read more »

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Why Are Indian Farmers Committing Suicide and How Can We Stop This Tragedy?

Posted in beyond organic, fascism/corporatism on May 22nd, 2009 No Comments »

More by Vandana Shiva, reprinted from Alternet.
This is a problem for all of us. Where 100 years ago many of us would be involved in agriculture and would eat fresh health local foods, corporations have now taken over the worlds food supply. These corporations rely on huge quantities of energy in the form of fossil [...] Read more »

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