This essay, taken from The Earth Blog, argues that humanity, and more specifically our individual selves, are what matters to us most of all and thus anything that threatens our survival is fundamentally bad. It’s a tough argument to make, largely because the values of those of us brought up in the civilized world have [...] Read more »
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David MacKay’s book, can be read on-line.
Sustainable Energy – without the hot air Read more »
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Gene Logsdon at OrganicToBe. The long-awaited, and much-anticipated 2nd Edition of Small-Scale Grain Raising: An Organic Guide to Growing, Processing, and Using Nutritious Whole Grains, for Home Gardeners and Local Farmers
is now available.
No sooner had the news come out that rice stocks worldwide were at an all time modern low, and that the price of [...] Read more »
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Posted in books on Feb 1st, 2009 No Comments »
Interview with Matthew Stein, P.E., author of When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability and Surviving the Long Emergency, originally posted at Alternet.
Taylor Haynes: A lot of people are now really concerned — or even hopeless — about the state of the world and what our future holds. Peak oil and climate change, the [...] Read more »
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Posted in books on Jan 10th, 2009 No Comments »
Prologue excerpted from the book American Holocaust
by David Stannard.
In the darkness of an early July morning in 1945, on a desolate spot in the New Mexico desert named after a John Donne sonnet celebrating the Holy Trinity, the first atomic bomb was exploded. J. Robert Oppenheimer later remembered that the immense flash of light, followed [...] Read more »
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Excerpt from The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen.
Imagine sitting down to a salad of peppery arugula and heirloom tomatoes that you grew yourself. Or a Sunday omelet of eggs laid that morning, served with a thick slice of fresh sourdough, butter [...] Read more »
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Posted in books, war on Jan 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
By Ron Jacobs, at CounterPunch.
Since it became clear that the intention of Israel’s latest military assault on Gaza is to destroy Hamas, various newspapers in the US have printed opinion pieces echoing the Washington line that it is Hamas’ fault that Gaza is being pummeled by Israeli warplanes. Now, there may be some things [...] Read more »
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Posted in books, collapse on Dec 7th, 2008 No Comments »
This article by Charles Eisenstein, at RealitySandwich.com, gives a very simple explanation of money as debt & how money works, the crisis we face explained as ‘we are running out of things to monetise’ & how informal-economy activity will hasten the collapse but also minimise some of the negative impact of that inevitable collapse. A [...] Read more »
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Posted in books, useful media on Dec 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
Video by Stefan Molyneux that will coax you further to “take the red pill” and escape the matrix.
Stefan’s website is Free Domain Radio, with philosophical podcasts and books, many of which look very interesting. Read more »
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