Masanobu Fukuoka, 1913-2008 - Long live 'do-nothing farming'
Australia's gardening icon Peter Cundall going strong at 81
Rich countries once used gunboats to seize food. Now they use trade deals

As the collapse of civilization exacerbates and intensifies, the most well-intentioned and open-hearted human beings will make many mistakes. And at the same time, it is possible to become adept and wizened by warrior/elder principles that skillfully set limits and to adhere to them when it would be much easier to garner kudos from self and others for indiscriminate inclusivity. It is a delicate and daunting dance-sometimes ecstatic, sometimes excruciating. But regardless of its outcome, its pathway traverses nowhere near the land of "Whatever".

Population Bomb Author's fix for next extinction: educate women
Peak population
Social Scientists Seek Answer To Exploding Population

Organic garden takes over San Francisco’s City Hall lawn
NPR misses real story, plants wrong seeds
A solar success on the farm
The curse of Yemen - qat
Alternative trade networks and the coffee system
Feeling the heat of food security
Brazilian agriculture faces huge losses from climate change

Local gardeners do their part to record possible 'global weirding'
Climate-change program to aid poor nations is shut
Environment: Intense rainfall due to global warming could raise flood risk

Although it is not yet palpable or palatable, it is logical and an empirical fact that rising energy prices equally threaten the health sciences. The vast majority of health professionals with whom this author has spoken classify high energy costs as troublesome but temporary, as well as outside the boundary of the health professions. A review of the literature shows virtually no research has been conducted on energy strategy and the health sciences – or the role of petroleum-based products - for three decades.

Bring on the Staycation / Relocalizing fun
She’s ready: Just add water
12 Tips for the sustainability shift
This week on Worldchanging Seattle

The final countdown
Stinging tentacles offer hint of oceans’ decline
The scientific case for modern anthropogenic global warming
Tories deny burying release of climate-change report

What would make a private consultant with a solid, secure income quit his day job to teach people about Peak Oil?

On July 17th, 2008, Vice President Al Gore challenged the nation to produce 100% of its electricity from renewable sources within 10 years. Post Carbon Institute has responded to Gore's challenge by putting forward a new plan: "10 Steps in 10 Years for 100 Percent Renewable Power." The plan shows how we can make Gore's vision a reality, with a keen understanding of the roles that energy depletion, the vulnerabilities of the supply chain, and the limits of technology all play.