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Slow Money: Bringing Money Down to Earth

Brooke Jarvis, Yes! Magazine

Woody Tasch has thought a lot about money: what it does, how it moves, and how to connect people who have it with people who need it...But he found that even socially responsible investing couldn't do much to fix an economy that focused too much on extraction and consumption and too little on preservation and restoration.

archived November 20, 2009
	

Small animals and urban ag - Nov 20

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-Female farmers find goats a good, but busy choice
-Chickens come home to roost in backyards around the USA
-Bite-Sized: Small cattle make big impression
-Saving The Bed-Stuy Farm: Choose Better Nutrition, Not Demolition

archived November 20, 2009
	

Sexual Attitudes In Agrarian Life

Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer

At one point in this book, I was moved to say—almost blurt out, if one can speak of writing as blurting—that all art is about sex. I made that statement in reaction to Mississippi John Hurt’s remark that all music was about human sexual relationships.

archived November 19, 2009
	

Solutions & sustainability - Nov 19

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-Go forth and multiply a lot less
-The new wave of urban farming (and fresh food from small spaces!)
-Urban farms a fertile idea
-Summary Presentation for Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
-The next Industrial Revolution will be people-powered
-Sustainability and Social Justice: Do the Math
-Greening Portland - Your City How To

archived November 19, 2009
	

Review: The Ecotechnic Future by John Michael Greer

Frank Kaminski, Seattle Peak Oil Awareness (SPOA)

John Michael Greer has officially established himself as an institution within the peak oil community. Truly one of the finest minds working on the predicament of modern-day industrial civilization, he is so well-read in so many fields that he regularly gains access to insights that utterly elude his contemporaries. For this he is treasured by a growing number of loyal readers—and, I suspect, hated by equally many fellow bloggers who wish that they could be half as good.

archived November 19, 2009
	

Economics - Nov 18

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-Will rising oil prices derail the recovery?
-Banks Hasten to Adopt New Loan Rules
-Finite Resources: One Possible Explanation for the Financial Crisis
-What Is Inflation and How Does One Measure It?
-They can make this rally last for years

archived November 18, 2009
	

Food Futures: Strategies for resilient food and farming (pdf)

Soil Association, www.soilassociation.org

Our current food systems are precarious and vulnerable to external ‘shocks’. A combination of one or more external factors, such as extreme weather conditions, global conflict or trade disputes could easily disrupt the continuity of food supplies unless we make fundamental changes to the way we farm, process, distribute and eat our food over the next 20 years.

archived November 18, 2009
	

Chris Nelder’s Notes on the 2009 ASPO-USA Peak Oil Conference (pdf)

Chris Nelder, Energy Bulletin

These are merely my notes from the conference. I hope they will be useful to others as an index to the volumes of material that were covered.

archived November 18, 2009
	

Crop to Cuisine: Book Features
Audio

Dov Hirsch, Crop to Cuisine

Crop To Cuisine stocks the pantry for Thanksgiving. We speak with historians about the truth behind the thanksgiving meal and the turkey. We also feature reports on how people are coping during tough times, and how you can give back.

archived November 18, 2009
	

Canada's House of Commons must convene inquiry into fossil fuel supply

National Farmers Union (Canada), www.nfu.ca

A recent front-page report by the British newspaper, The Guardian, is the latest reason why Canada needs a top-level analysis of global hydrocarbon supplies. The Guardian’s November 9th story is headlined “Key oil figures were distorted by US pressure, says whistleblower.” The story focuses on the world’s top energy monitoring and forecasting body, the International Energy Agency (IEA).

archived November 17, 2009
	

Dancing the Copenhagen two-step - Nov 17 -updated Nov 18

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-Leaders plan a 'two-step' environment deal
-The psychology of climate change
-Greenland's Ice Sheet Melting Faster than Ever
-Rainforests could be traded on world market
-Leaders agree Copenhagen will focus on principles, not concrete goals
-World on course for catastrophic 6° rise, reveal scientists

archived November 17, 2009
	

Feeding the world, climate change, and peak oil - Nov 17

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-UN links climate with hunger
-Hungry for change
-The Links Between Food Security And Climate Change
-Agriculture in the Climate Change Negotiations, Platform Issue Paper
-The one thing depleting faster than oil is the credibility of those measuring it
-Promoting climate-smart agriculture

archived November 17, 2009
	

Deconstructing Dinner: "The California Drought and Fox News"
Audio

Jon Steinman, Deconstructing Dinner

We travel to the State of California where 50% of all fresh fruits and vegetables consumed in Canada and the United States are produced. Beyond fresh produce, California is also a major producer of dairy, olives and nuts, and the list of foods goes on.

archived November 17, 2009
	

Peak Energy Vs. Climate Change: Stupidest Debate Ever

Sharon Astyk, Casaubon's Book

The truth is that we have at least two central problems (the economic one is tied to both in the long term), and only people who can get their mind around the combined difficulty will have anything useful to offer. Yes, we need to know how what fossil fuels are in the ground – and we also can’t burn them rapidly. Yes, we need to address climate change – and we need to stop lying and claiming that we can have it all – a happy growth economy based on renewable energy, yada yada.

archived November 16, 2009
	

Food & agriculture - Nov 16

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-Program could match Colo.'s next generation of farmers with land, expertise
-Feeding the city
-The Nitrogen Fix: Breaking a Costly Addiction
-Aid Groups, Farmers Collaborate to Re-Green Sahel

archived November 16, 2009