Peak Oil
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Incredible Edible Todmorden (video)
If you want a little inspiration today, the following video about the excellent work going on in Todmorden, UK, should…
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Angle of Descent
The justifications for airport expansion turn out to be bogus. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political…
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A Computer Geek Starts a Garden, Part I – Background, Design and Initial Implementation
The yard in winter, before work begins… A great many people today are living in fear. The future looks uncertain,…
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ASPO 2012 Presentations
From May 30 — June 1, 2012, the 10th ASPO (Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas) meeting…
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Summary Presentations for Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity
Editor’s Note: Some permies may wish to download the slideshow files at bottom to use, or modify to use, for…
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Radical Simplicity and the Middle-Class – Exploring the Lifestyle Implications of a ‘Great Disruption’
by Dr Samuel Alexander, co-director of the Simplicity Institute and a lecturer with the Office for Environmental Programs, University of…
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Why are the FAO and the EBRD Promoting the Destruction of Peasant and Family Farming?
Editor’s Note: It is intensely infuriating when people in suits make wholly inaccurate, ignorant statements about incredibly important issues, and…
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Making the Case for the Genetically Modified Human
If we fail to change trajectory, then perhaps we should be re-engineering the root cause of our problem — ourselves?…
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Don’t Count on Revolution in Oil Supply
This is a guest post by Sadad al-Huseini, now a petroleum consultant and formerly executive vice president of Saudi Aramco…
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Hunger Games
The rich world is causing the famines it claims to be preventing. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental…
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Get Into Farming (video)
The upsidedownness of our world really gets to me. The people doing the most critical work (like producing food and…
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Why Australia Needs a “Peoples Food Plan”
by Richard Widows We are in the early stages of a global food crisis, the likes of which has never…
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