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A Force Of Nature - The Signs of Our Collapse
2011-10-30 19:49:00 I am now deep into the book, “The World Without Us” by Alan Weisman, and I must say, this has been an incredible read. The author takes us on a journey of human history and our relationship (attack) upon the natural world. He poses the thought experiment, “what would the Earth be like if we ...
Garbage Warrior: The Story of Eco Architect Michael Reynolds
2011-10-21 19:34:00 "I feel like I'm like in a herd of buffalo, and they are all stampeding toward a 1000 foot drop-off..."
The Significant Generation
2011-10-15 18:18:00 In the many years that I have been in this “collapse theme”, regarding our society and civilization and the future that lies before us all, I have come to fully embrace the viewpoint that future planning is an absolutely essential and critical activity — for each and every one of us. We do not live in ...
Awaken The Masses
2011-10-03 06:03:00 I have never heard of Guy McPherson before (unless I’ve simply forgotten), but apparently he’s heard of this blog. A reader shared with me his website, and his latest video is an absolute must watch: I was one of those that said “oh shit…” at around 7:45 minutes into the video, when I realized the significance ...
Corporations are Destroying The World
2011-01-03 22:14:00 A powerful video with a powerful message: Thanks to Doug for sending this in. I am deeply saddened that in the face of so much evidence that we still cannot seem to change our behavior. The following two stories are related: 1,000 Blackbirds Fall From the Sky In Arkansas Thousands of Dead Fish Show Up in Arkansas River Birds ...
Eaarth
2010-10-25 18:37:00 I picked up a copy of Bill McKibben’s book, Eaarth and have now read through a little more then half of this book. First off, it’s really a very good book on covering the difficulties now facing humanity. I’ve never read McKibben’s books before (really) but like his writing style, it’s easy to read and worth ...
On The Complexities of Life
2010-10-24 02:54:00 I have been pondering many thoughts of late, dealing with the “known knowns” and the “known unknowns” with regards to the fate of most humans on this planet. Donald Rumsfeld made complex work out of that statement, in case you didn’t know. As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We ...
No Impact Man: Movie Review
2009-08-31 13:00:00 Let me make sure I have my facts straight: In the heart of New York City, a husband and wife, and their very young daughter, embark on a year long journey to transition into a lifestyle that leaves behind a zero carbon footprint? That means: no plastic bottles, no restaurant food, no coffee shops, no ...
Sheep Cheese: Ancient Heritage Dairy
2009-08-24 13:00:00 Cooking Up a Story: Stories Sheep cheese tastes distinctive, characteristically strong, and very different from cow or goat cheese. On this family sheep farm, the making of cheese reflects a slower pace of life along with a direct connection to the land. Consuming this cheese requires a careful eating pace. One of the great pleasures doing these ...
Democracy, Consensus and Mass Awareness ? It?s Not What You Think
2009-05-12 01:08:00 I’d like to address an issue that has been cropping up more and more lately. There is a assumption by millions of people that “numbers matter” in areas that require change. The general idea is something like this: If enough people get involved in “the issue” (whatever it is), then ‘we the people’ can make a lasting ...
Perilous Optimism
2009-05-07 05:30:00 [Another great find from Another Way Of Knowing — Admin] Ernest Partridge: Perilous Optimism October 21st, 2007 Ernest Partridge: Perilous Optimism I Human beings thrive on hope. Without some sense that our individual deliberate effort brings us closer to a fulfillment of our personal goals, we simply cannot function from one day to the next. And yet, hope often betrays us, ...
Finding Freedom
2009-05-06 21:39:00 Submitted by Shadowwalker, words of advice and wisdom on finding true freedom in this world:
Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?
2009-05-01 00:25:00 Sent in by Chris: For most of us, the idea that civilization itself could disintegrate probably seems preposterous. Who would not find it hard to think seriously about such a complete departure from what we expect of ordinary life? What evidence could make us heed a warning so dire?and how would we go about responding to ...
Farmers Commit Mass Suicide
2009-04-16 05:36:00 This is a shocking story — tens of thousands of farmers are committing suicide due to genetically modified seeds (crop failures), higher and higher prices for seeds and fertilizer (indebtedness) and falling water tables. Multiple crop failures means bankruptcy and starvation for these farmers and their families. In despair, they are taking their own lives. There ...
The United States of America ? The Main Environmental Threat In The World T
2009-04-14 06:18:00 The above title is my own — but may as well have been the title of the following article written by Fred Pearce of Environment 360: They show that sustaining the lifestyle of the average American takes 9.5 hectares, while Australians and Canadians require 7.8 and 7.1 hectares respectively; Britons, 5.3 hectares; Germans, 4.2; and the ...
Statistics of the Takers
2009-04-07 20:43:00 Some more statistics worth knowing. This article tries a few upbeat passes at how things might be improving, but when you read the real data it presents, it’s anything but upbeat: The continued increase in mortgage delinquencies revealed in his data foreshadows more foreclosures, short sales and home price declines as homeowners default and banks ...
The Future Of City Gardens and Big Business
2009-02-18 22:45:00 Community gardens bulldozed into dust: It’s called The Destruction of South Central Farmers and it demonstrates why short-term, profit-based thinking will ultimately destroy sustainable human life on our planet. Keep in mind what you are watching it the city of Los Angeles destroying a community garden plot. It’s like an apocalyptic future scene right out of ...
The Coming Food Wars
2009-02-17 02:52:00 [This is one of those infrequent updates that I more or less promised I’d make. This is an issue that affects us all and should be aired (again) from time to time, especially in light of all the bad news we are receiving every day - Admin] There is a treatise over on the Ishmael ...
Defenders of the Earth - A Call For Global Action
2008-11-28 00:05:00 Since its inception, this blog has concentrated on many issues relating to the human condition within the framework of civilization: human rights, greed, corruption, justice, equality, environment, politics, tyranny, war, collapse, survival, primitivism, sustainable living and above all, common sense and the transparency and folly of our present world. It has always been my goal, while ...
On Indigenious Uprisings & Resistance
2008-11-20 09:21:00 On the same theme of indigenous uprisings just blogged, here is another story: On November 7 more than ten thousand Santhal men and women converged in the Indian state of West Bengal to demand the end to state oppression and the constant dispossession of their lands. It is an historic moment for the tribal peoples in the ...
Looking At Empty
2008-11-17 09:26:00 Once again, I have “dangerously” gone off and done some reading around the world via the Internet. What I’ve been looking for is some inkling of something I have seen yet, and that is hope. My journey investigated the cultural survival of the world’s indigenous tribes, U.S. political leadership, a solution to the world financial ...
Olduvai Theory And Our Response
2008-10-26 19:18:00 Lonewolf shared this link with me, and I (slowly) read it through and pondered this most of the night. It is the Olduvai Theory: Sliding Towards a Post-Industrial Stone Age and it has of course, particular significance towards the future of all humanity. First off, if you don’t know what this is, it is the ...
Nature Is The Great Equalizer
2008-10-21 19:51:00 Read these headlines (or preferably, the entire articles) first: Climate Change, Faster, Stronger, Sooner This falls right into my own predictions of how fast and serious this is going to be, except that they still need to update their timeline by several decades. The IPCC’s report (surprise, surprise) has already been found to be pretty ...
Farmer In Chief
2008-10-19 05:14:00 This is a great article sent in by Lonewolf about our food plight in America, and how new policies at a national level must be swiftly adopted to prevent disaster from befalling millions of Americans. Great suggestions within, this is one of the better articles I’ve read on this issue in a long time. Food ...
Picture Proof Positive Of Collapse Dead Ahead
2008-10-17 18:08:00 The above graph is from the New Scientist, Special report: How our economy is killing the Earth. It is a stark reminder of just how bad things are really getting. It is a perfect example of the exponential growth problem as shown by Bartlett and others. The economic model was their focus — but there are ...
Dietary Delights
2008-10-14 13:06:00 A website you should check out for culinary delights and easy simple preparation ideas is the Frugal Cuisine. Always some good ideas there on using up your pantry leftovers and could be applied to your storable food too.
The End
2008-10-12 17:47:00 This article is really entitled the End of Growth, but it really should be labeled “The End”, because this is what it means, the end of everything we know in the modern world. (Energy Bulletin) — Several of us who have been watching the world oil production and depletion picture closely for the last few years ...
The Root Cellar - In Pictures
2008-09-16 06:05:00 Here’s what some of you might have been waiting for, the picture sequence of the root cellar (many images follow): Starting here (my first picture) of this project: To this: to this: to this: to this: to this: to this: to this: to this: to this: to the final covering with a huge double-layered tarp: to this: Final picture of the front still coming, I literally forgot to ...
Nearly Done
2008-09-13 04:40:00 More pics on the sweat lodge, err root cellar. Door and front mostly installed. The door is pretty heavy, it’s 3/4″ double-sided plywood on a 2×4 frame. But it came out alright. I shingled the front, but need another square to finish it. The rocks are helping hold some of the dirt back. It’s now covered with it’s first ...
Getting It Done - Root Cellar
2008-09-10 04:58:00 More progress on the root cellar. I’ve finished the roof and covered with the first layers of plastic. The pic below shows the front, that’s the (unfinished) door laying on the ground. Still needs the roof vents, but I’ll put these in the eaves and not through the roof. Little dirt on top is helping ...
Crashstead Survival - Personal Preparations
2008-09-09 12:09:00 Crashstead survival requires deep personal preparations. I have not really found that many people who have given this a lot of thought or more importantly, gone to the extreme lengths that are necessary to put these preparations into action. It is not enough to simply “plan” what you’re going to do when the time comes, ...
More Root Cellar Construction Photos
2008-09-07 01:55:00 Still slowly plugging away on the root cellar. The main problem is I ran out of materials to finish the major construction. Got plenty of dirt, but I’m not ready for that yet. It was the roof that needed finishing, which was achieved today. Almost done on the roof: Top view, looking down. The plywood ...
More Root Cellar Photos
2008-08-31 03:10:00 I’ve still been working on the root cellar. There were three days of rain that made a mess of everything, mostly mud and wet conditions where I didn’t try to do any work. Then when the weather broke, I finally installed the roofing on my shop. Metal roofing is now $3.25 a ...
Collapse Happens, You Just Aren?t Being Told About It Frequently Enough
2008-08-25 23:01:00 Lonewolf sent me a bunch of links. Peter Goodchild has a long article that basically say’s “it’s all over folks”. Sorry No Gas is a lengthy read, and I think most of the points he covers have been written about here. I remain absolutely convinced that a) nobody is listening, and b) almost nobody ...
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...
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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
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