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Keyhole Gardening
2008-07-17 02:33:00 Spotted this over on Monkeyfister, the keyhole garden. An innovative idea that could help you grow your own food. Some observations: I wonder if you could pry the cellphones and Ipods away from Americans and get a happy level of participation as shown in this video? Somehow, I sort of doubt it. The rusty cans was interesting, ...
How Often Do You Feel Like This?
2008-07-09 04:55:00 This is going to become one of my favorite images. Not only do I very often feel like this when discussing the rampant stupidity of this world, I can fully emphasize with this fellow in so many ways. Lonewolf shared this with me (who else?), where he found it over on Thomas Paine’s Corner, in ...
Tearing It Down - Part II
2008-07-06 05:07:00 [This is Part II, please read Part I first - Admin] It is probably accurate to say that everything humans set out to do, is really done solely for their own benefit. The premises here is that the advancement of humans, over all other forms of life, sentient and non-sentient, and of human possessions and human ...
Tearing It Down - Part I
2008-07-06 02:21:00 [This is Part I, please read this segment first before reading Part II - Admin] In my last post, I said: The ?solution? seems to be to keep everything going, just as it is, as long as possible, with a total lack of foresight on what this is going to mean in the long run. If we ...
The Religion of Stuff
2008-07-02 03:03:00 This is apparently a new video of Dr. James Hansen, discussing climate change, politics, energy and China. What causes climate change is not today’s emmissions, it’s today atmospheric composition, and we are primarily responsble for the excess C02 in the atmosphere, more the 3 times more then China, per capita basis, more then an order of ...
350 PPM and What You?re Still Not Being Told
2008-07-01 15:13:00 A short semi-entertaining video about C02 levels and what it means now that we’ve passed the ‘acceptable limits’. We are already over 385 ppm and rising. Some of you might be interested in reading The State of the Nation?s Ecosystems 2008. I’ve perused the links and essays found there, so here is what I ...
Quote
2008-06-26 12:53:00 It has often been said that, if the human species fails to make a go of it here on the Earth, some other species will take over the running. In the sense of developing intelligence this is not correct. We have or soon will have, exhausted the necessary physical prerequisites so far as this planet ...
Walking In The Truth - The Destiny Of Man
2008-06-15 17:52:00 I have spent the majority of my adult life seeking after the “truth of things”. This investigative journey has led me down many paths, including philosophy, religion, politics, history, the environment, and ultimately to ‘civilization’, which is the forefather and foundation to it all. I have discovered and eventually uncovered many things of great interest, ...
Survival Acres - Questions & Answers
2008-06-01 02:59:00 [This is a fictional interview entry, written to answer some interview requests I’ve received. In the past year, I’ve had about five requests I think from different media outlets. I have turned them all down as a matter of routine. I do not grant interviews anymore, because I’ve little interest in the limelight ...
Fertility Farming
2008-05-19 02:24:00 This is a link contribution sent in by retardedbygod which is pretty interesting. Using pigs to reclaim wasted land and enhance the fertility, even if you don’t eat pork. Fertility Farming Many more links on the homepage, Small Farms Library I’ve been clearing land mechanically and by hand, working my butt off too. The slash left behind ...
Portion Size, Then and Now
2008-05-16 00:16:00 Spotted this article originally on Rense, Portion Size, Then and Now. This give a whole new meaning to “Supersize me”. Another thought - if we weren’t sustainable back then, how could be possibly achieve sustainability now, while consuming nearly twice to three times as much (per person)? Portion Size, Then and Now By: Liz Monte Over the ...
Gravediggers of the world unite! Capitalism Must Die?.
2008-05-12 08:17:00 Cyrano’s latest post — Gravediggers of the world unite! Capitalism Must Die?.. A long rant. Unfortunately, he’s right about most of his points.
Book Review: Off the Grid Homes - Case Studies for Sustainable Living
2008-05-10 21:45:00 Off the Grid Homes combines beautiful images with technical information for sustainable homes. The book by architect Lori Ryker is less of a manual for systems to be used in off the grid homes...
By: Green Options
An Experiment In Backyard Sustainability
2008-05-10 18:32:00 Logrithmic sent me this link, but I can’t watch it (still stuck on slow dialup). An Experiment In Backyard Sustainability
Women's Eco Friendly Organic Clothing Made of Organic Cotton, Hemp, and Lin
2008-04-24 20:15:00 Women's Eco Friendly Organic ClothingMade of Organic Cotton, Hemp, and LinenToday's Fabulous Find!Happened upon this site called Rawganique...and I discovered some fabulously stylish eco-friendly...organic cotton, hemp and linen women's clothing!Aren't these amazing looking pieces! These are the Eco-Couture Jacqueline Hemp Dress, the Women's Organic Hemp Button-down Cardigan, the Hemp Rainbow Sweater and the Organic Cotton Jill's Bra. Love these styles!See these Women's Eco Friendly Organic Clothing Made of Organic Cotton, Hemp, and Linen at Rawanique.About Rawganique Organic Products:We believe in quality, not fads. That is why the organic products we offer will never go out of style: we design our products to be practical, good-looking, and eco-friendly. Eco-friendly means certified organic, sweatshop-free, and without harsh chemicals and heavy metals. Whenever we design a new product, we go back to how it would have been made 100 or 200 years ago, when chemicals wer...
AltBuild to Showcase Green Building, Sustainable Living
2008-04-17 08:00:00 AltBuild, the Alternative Building Expo sponsored by the City of Santa Monica, CA, returns for its 5th year on April 25-26, 2008. Designed to promote green building, alternative energy, and...
By: Green Options
National Geographic Channel to Leave Human Footprint
2008-04-11 19:52:00 Special to Examine One Person’s Impact on the Environment Based on Their Consumption By John Eggerton — Broadcasting & Cable, 4/7/2008 4:38:00 PM National Geographic Channel will premiere a special April 13, Human Footprint, which quantifies one person’s impact on the environment based on their consumption of things like milk, eggs, bread and gasoline. The point of the ...
The Changes We Seek - What Can Be Done - Part II
2008-03-24 19:42:00 [See Part I - The Changes We Seek - What Can Be Done] Part II The first thing we can do is stop pursuing after those things we cannot hope to change. The present momentum and inertia at work in our world today are now are so great that we cannot hope to sustain or even ...
The Changes We Seek - What Can Be Done - Part I
2008-03-23 04:29:00 I hope this blog entry is one of the most important entries I have ever written, because it is my hope that this will break through some of the gridlock and indecisions and most importantly, the daily time wasters that consume our lives. This blog and many others sources have revealed that huge, cataclysmic changes are ...
My Warning To The World
2008-03-04 00:25:00 [retitled, as I think it is much more appropriate with this title - Admin] I am referring a lot of callers to review some of the data found on this blog, and therefore, am going to state some things here that might be “old ground” for regular readers, but need to put refreshed near the top ...
Online community for Sustainable Living
2008-02-17 00:00:00 People gather together online to date, gossip or lose weight. Now a new website called Greenopolis has created a community whose members help each other live in a more eco-friendly manner. The site, still in beta, allows registered visitors to complete a survey analyzing their daily activities to determine how ?green? their lifestyle is. Based on these findings users receive a colored badge, which shows other members just how eco-friendly they really are. Orange badge holders need to clean up their environmental act, and solid green badge holders are on the right track
By: LivePaths
Carbon Zero City? Not A Chance
2008-02-11 02:32:00 Sent in by Vaughn, the world’s first ‘carbon-neutral’ city: Work on First Carbon-Neutral City Begins. If you believe that, I’ve got a bridge to sell you. In the desert. Cheap. First off, this city will be built in a highly unsustainable area (for 50,000 people) - right in the middle of the desert. Not just ...
Type 1 Errors
2008-02-05 21:59:00 This is an interesting inteview with Bill Mollison sent in by Lonewolf. The timing of this link is a bit eerie considering how today has gone. Mollison uses the word eerie himself to point out our inability to do the right thing despite our own best interest. Someone needs to tell Mollison that anarchy ...
Seeds of Destruction, Part III
2008-01-21 20:20:00 Sent in by Lonewolf, another good informative article on what they have been doing to the world’s food supply: Argentina became the first “guinea pig” nation in a reckless experiment with untested and potentially hazardous new foods. No matter, potential profits are enormous so concerns for public safety and human health are ignored. Let the revolution ...
The Poor Get Diabetes and The Rich Get Local and Organic
2008-01-17 06:29:00 Anybody remember that I have said on more then one occasion, that the rich would remain relatively unaffected by the rising prices? As we swirl down the drain, they’re still able to buy whatever they want, but not so for the growing numbers of poor. Here’s a current article on AlterNet that say’s exactly that: First ...
Laws Relating To Sustainability
2007-12-30 22:21:00 Garrett Hardin’s Three Laws of Human Ecology Boulding’s Three Theorems, Abernethy’s Axiom, and “LAWS RELATING TO SUSTAINABILITY” by Dr. Albert A. Bartlett Sent in by Lonewolf (thank you) and emphasis and [comments] mine: First Law Population growth and/or growth in the rates of consumption of resources cannot be sustained. [While this should be self-evident, it’s not as shown by the ...
More Food Doom
2007-12-19 02:56:00 More food doom news, sent in by Dennis: Wheat Hits Record As Global Demand Depletes Supply World Food Supply Is Shrinking If that doesn’t wake you the up, then this might: Monsanto wants to own the DNA of the food you eat, making the seeds you buy sterile. They have taken steps in court and law to give them ...
Growing Your Own Food
2007-12-16 17:28:00 Does anybody here have any significant experience in growing their own food? Not only that, but preserving this from year to year? I’ve been having private conversations off and on and the consensus is that the ability and means to grow your own food is not what many seem to think it is. The lack ...
Water, Finally!
2007-12-14 01:14:00 I’ve been without water for the past five days. Today, it flows! This situation wasn’t too hard, but it was certainly inconvenient. Every winter this happens, without fail. I had water on hand, but hauling water inside was still a ‘pain’. You need 1 gallon per person per day for a survival stash. We were using 10 ...
The Story Of Stuff
2007-12-11 00:40:00 A basic primer “must see” on how we have destroyed our planet, our health, our environment, and how incredibly easy it was to manipulate us into doing all of this. Absolutely must watch. The Story of Stuff
Orchestrated Doom
2007-11-29 20:34:00 There has been a lot of food doom in the news, but not all of it noticed and some of it, downright misleading. ING’s financial analysts predict that agricultural prices will increase further by another 40 per cent by 2020, reflecting a tight supply brought on in part by increased demand for grains, a global water ...
The Entire Human Story
2007-11-04 18:13:00 Shared by Lonewolf, who found it at Peak Oil, this is a highly readable and important piece: The Entire Human Story Author: Perry Jay Arnett “The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy.” – Ludwig Boltzman, Physicist “Culture evolves as the amount of energy harnessed per capita per year is increased, or as the efficiency of the ...
What?s Cheaper Then Dirt?
2007-11-03 17:43:00 I’m going to have to update my collapse vocabulary. Soil erosion is the “silent global crisis” that is undermining food production and water availability, as well as being responsible for 30 percent of the greenhouse gases driving climate change. “We are overlooking soil as the foundation of all life on Earth,” said Andres Arnalds, assistant director of ...
Metamorphous
2007-10-20 20:08:00 First off, and most important, I would like to express my sincere thanks and appreciation to everyone who has taken the time to write and support this blog and the effort represented here. I am deeply moved by your support, your generosity and your kindness. For all this and much more, I ...
Producing Your Own Power
2007-10-08 09:31:00 Peak energy / peak oil will bring about dramatic changes to our way of life. To call this cataclysmic would be an understatement. Our dependency upon liquid fuels for transportation will have one of the most notable and immediate impacts. Since every consumable product is produced far, far away, the increase in energy costs will have ...
Civilization and Succession
2007-09-28 18:51:00 Here’s an great article on the future of our civilization, Civilization and Succession.
A Veggie Lovers Paradise?
2007-09-04 17:52:00 Pumpkins, Zucchini, red bell pepper, and watermelons Here’s what was picked from my garden today. It’s not a lot of produce but it’s a start. I’m currently taking a break but I have a lot more gardening to do today. That’s a workout. You know I should have posted this for ...
By: Vegan Momma
Did You Know These Even Existed?
2007-09-03 07:57:00 I was watching Living with Ed on HGTV last night and saw two products I never knew existed - first was the water powered garbage disposal. Invented by a NASA engineer and produced by Hydromaid, this disposal acts like a food processor, grinding all types of food into small bits. It consists of “five stainless ...
Collapse Survival On A Budget - Part II
2007-08-29 04:18:00 In Part I, I outlined the need for skills, experience, knowledge and sound judgment as part of your collapse survival preparations. These are not things you can disregard and are some of the most important steps you can take to help yourself and your loved ones. In Part II, I will once again put the collapse ...
Food Prices, Plans and Preps
2007-08-25 08:01:00 I should probably start labeling these food doom posts #9, #12, #24, etc., as the news on the food outlook continues to worsen around the world. In Chicago, wheat for December delivery surged to an all-time high of $7.54 a bushel. Prices have jumped 110 per cent in the past 12 months and have risen threefold ...
Learn From The Fall Of Rome
2007-08-16 06:07:00 The US government is on a ?burning platform? of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon, the country?s top government inspector has warned. David Walker, comptroller general of the US, issued the unusually downbeat assessment of his country?s future ...
Do It Yourself Water Well
2007-08-16 03:19:00 Robin shared this link with me: Do It Yourself Water Well. Lot of information here on doing it without the expense usually associated with hiring a well driller. Put this one in your bookmarks.
Collapse Survival On A Budget - Part I
2007-08-15 08:48:00 There is recognizably, a great amount of anxiety and angst among crash watchers on how to survive the coming collapse of civilization. The means to do so seems beyond most - they lack the skills, experience, money and resources deemed essential to simply “buy” themselves the comfort zone perceived as being necessary for ...
Sustainable living
2007-08-13 23:06:00 We live in an apartment but if we were to move to a house one day I would like to have something like this.
By: Revolving Doors
Where To Live And Collapse Survival
2007-08-01 03:30:00 This is another prediction coming true - American’s moving to Canada in record numbers. This will only increase as the fascist police state worsens and climate change makes its impact felt on everyone. I get a lot of questions about where to live. It’s not an easy decision and even harder to give ‘long distance advice’. ...
Simplify and Survive
2007-07-28 19:50:00 The sheer inability to keep this present world afloat on the dwindling supply of cheap energy signifies a dramatic shift in lifestyles for the majority of mankind soon to come. Primarily for Americans and other developed nations, everything is going to get very, very expensive, so much so that they will be ‘forced’ to do ...
The Importance Of Cooperation - Soon To Be Essential
2007-07-22 23:48:00 This will be one of the most important blog entries I’ve ever written because it is an issue that will affect 99% of my readers. If you are like me, you are an average Joe Citizen, trying to make ends meet in an increasingly competitive and expensive world. As resource scarcity increases the costs of ...
Finally!! Some Common Sense!
2007-07-22 20:56:00 This is the ‘unspeakable topic’ that everyone is afraid to talk about: The new head of the Science Museum has an uncompromising view about how global warming should be dealt with: get rid of a few billion people. Chris Rapley, who takes up his post on September 1, is not afraid of offending. ‘I am not ...
New And Improved Windpower
2007-07-22 01:39:00 Mother Earth News has a new article on “improved” wind power, but it’s not very good. What I’d like to point out is what wind power really costs the average homeowner. At the bottom of the article is the estimates: Bergey Excel Average Cost: $50,000 ARE 442 Average Cost: $50,000 to $80,000 ARE 110 Average Cost: ...
Face To Face With Stone Age Man
2007-07-21 19:00:00 “You are welcome here. But please tell your people how things are for the Hadzabe. Please do not add things and please do not take things away. Please just tell the world that we are dying.”More than wild animals or sleeping sickness, what Gonga fears is that rich men with guns and helicopters from the ... |
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