Start Gardening With a Vengeance

SUBHEAD: More of us should take up the spade, make some compost, and start gardening as if our lives depended on it.By Ellen LaConte on 30 March 2011 in AlterNet - (http://www.alternet.org/food/150428/garden_as_if_your_life_depended_on_it%2C_because_it_does)Image above: Poster circa 1925 with Uncle Sam advocating "Garden to cut food costs!" From (http://gallery.pictopia.com/natf/photo/8612566/).

The Local Food Revolution

SUBHEAD: A revolution aimed at rebuilding food security and food sovereignty for all.By Michael Brownlee on 24 March 2011 in Boulder Weekly - (http://www.boulderweekly.com/article-4806-id-like-to-see-a-study-on-the-relative-cost-for-t.html)Image above: Boulder Belt Farm share. From (http://www.localharvest.org/blog/330/entry/boulder_belt_farm_share_inititiative16).Boulder, Colorado -Anyone living

Earth's Scarcest Resource Is Time

SUBHEAD: In the event of a crisis, the US food supply would run out in three days.By Lester Brown on 23 March 2011 in The Nation - (http://www.thenation.com/video/159399/lester-brown-planets-scarcest-resource-time)Image above: Lester Brown in China. From (http://whoami-whoareyou.blogspot.com/2011/01/for-perspective.html).In this eleventh video in the series “Peak Oil and a Changing Climate” from

In Soil We Trust

SUBHEAD: Building pool of investment capital that is permanently dedicated to the preservation and restoration of the soil.By Woody Tasch on 24 February 2011 in Reality Sandwich - (http://www.realitysandwich.com/soil_we_trust)Image above: Money in the ground. From (http://coins.thefuntimesguide.com/2010/07/treasure_hunting.php)."The innate value of this kind of investing is so obvious to me,"

Life Within the Soil

SUBHEAD: The real secrets of a healthy soil — mega-diversity in soil life.By Doug Weatherbee on 19 January 2011 on Sustainable World Radio -Image above: Doug Weatherbee. Photo from his website( http://soildoctor.org).Listen to a two part interview on soil with Doug Weatherbee broadcast on Sustainable World Radio.Part 1(http://pdcastsusworldradio.libsyn.com/life-within-the-soil-part-1)

UN is Getting Into Permaculture

SUBHEAD: Putting more trees on farms is fundamental to the future agricultural development.By Paul Stapleton on 9 February 2011 in EureakAlert! - (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-02/wac-pto020911.php)Image above: A tropical agroforestry tree nursery. From (http://www.forestnursery.com/).Trees growing on farms will be essential to future development. As the number of trees in forests

By what right are you here?

SUBHEAD: Our species has made a terminal mistake. What right do you have to be here on planet Earth?By William Kotke on 30 January 2011 in Speaking Truth to Power - (http://carolynbaker.net/2011/01/30/what-right-do-you-have-to-be-here-on-planet-earth-by-william-kotke/)Image above: Saudi irrigated agriculture is being abandoned as too water insensive. From (http://www.eosnap.com/image-of-the-day/

Cool food, fuel and climate

SUBHEAD: Permaculture seems to be indispensable for anyone trying to bring about broadscale collapse-proofing.By Albert Bates on 8 January 2011 in The Great Change - (http://peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2011/01/cool-food-cool-fuel-cool-climate.html)Image above:Plenty Belize and Maya Mountain Research Farm workshop on photovoltaic electric-generating systems. From (http://www.plenty.org/pb25_1/

Slow Money

SUBHEAD: Reconnecting the economy to soil, biodiversity and food quality.By Woody Tasch on 2 December 2010 in Mother Earth News -(http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-community/slow-money-ze0z10zhir.aspx)Image above: A slow growth money tree. From (http://blog.hostyourspace.co.uk/if-you-are-new-in-inverting-then-follow-these-guidelines-for-success). The following is an excerpt from Inquiries

The Biochar Solution

SUBHEAD: Ethically seeding a large portion of the Earth's soils with biochar may actually become politically feasible.By Kurt Cobb on 12 December 2010 in Resource Insights - (http://resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2010/12/why-you-should-read-biochar-solution.html)Image above: Tractor plowing charred plants into the soil. From (http://knowledge.allianz.com/en/news/viewdetail/biochar_farm_soil.html).