Watch out Main Street!

SUBHEAD: Most people today don't remember Woolworth's and the other five-&-dime stores that used to populate small town America.By Matthew Boyle on 9 March 2011 for Bloomberg News - (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-09/wal-mart-will-break-ground-on-express-small-stores-in-arkansas-next-week.html)Image above: F. W. Woolworth's sold everything, and was (in)famous for its lunch counters. This

Small scale farms are sustainable

SUBHEAD: UN study finds organic outperform conventional farms where the hungry live, especially in unfavorable environments.By Matthew McDermot on 8 March 2011 for Treehugger - (http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/03/small-scale-sustainable-agriculture-double-developing-nations-food-10-years.php)Image above: Harvesting organic vegetables on small Indian farm. From (https://picasaweb.google.com/

The Empire Strikes Out

SUBHEAD: Sooner than you might think the tweets and the video feeds will cease and the screen will go dark.By Dmitry Orlov 8 March 2011 in ClubOrlov - (http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2011/03/empire-strikes-out.html)Image above: Internet down again in Libya. From (http://compushot.blogspot.com/2011/03/libyas-internet-down-again.html).Tunisia, Egypt, Libya... now, children, one of these things is

Bridging the Transition

SUBHEAD: The strategy of staged disconnection is not catabolic but metabolic; it taps into existing resource flows before shortages become severe.By John Michael Greer on 15 December 2010 for Archdruid Report - (http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2010/12/two-lessons-in-practical-ecology.html)Image above: A bridge disappears into the distance in the Coasta Rican Monteverde Cloud Forest. From