A Pathfinder for the Future Primitive

My curiosity was piqued when I read a review of Miles Olson's Unlearn, Rewild: Earth skills, ideas and inspiration for the future primitive in Richard Reese's Sustainable or Bust. For nearly a decade this young man lived with friends at the edge of civilization in the … [Read more...]

Natural Buildings for Urban Living – The Tour, part 2 (247)

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Natural Buildings for Urban Living – The Tour, part 2 (247)

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Natural Buildings for Urban Living, part 1 (246)

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Natural Buildings for Urban Living, part 1 (246)

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Why’d the Chicken Cross the Road? – To Meet the Neighbors

McCaskill Street looks like an ordinary residential street in Victoria West, B.C. But it's much more. Neighbors are actively sharing projects and tools and information, and having fun together building friendships. Residents are joining brushes to paint a wall mural … [Read more...]

Early Autumn Chronicles from the Salish Sea Coast

Harvest time.  Gardens putting out the last of the summer veggies.  Early fall rains, harbingers of winter coming.  We're happy hyper-locavores relishing a zero-mile-diet along both sides of the Salish Sea. Tasting resilient, close-to-the-earth food cultivation … [Read more...]

Earth Repair – Grass Roots Healing for Toxic Landscapes

Leila Darwish is a passionate dynamo, a champion of the underdog (those whose land and water are being poisoned by industrial civilization) and an advocate for grass roots action to heal the earth (especially when agencies and corporations are slow to act or their efforts … [Read more...]

Local Currency – Better Than Money

"The global economy is much worse after the 2008 financial crash," Francis Ayley asserted. "The usurious money system is a Ponzi scheme. It's collapsing." Usurious means loans must be repaid with additional interest — so the money system requires infinite growth, an … [Read more...]

A Longtime Farmer Shares His Wisdom, part 2 (245)

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