Bill Wilson and Wayne Weiseman pour their hearts into their permaculture design courses, changing lives as well as landscapes. In a unique format, students do initial course work online and then attend a one week hands-on course. In this chat along with Sivananda Yoga Farm … [Read more...]
Preparing for Disasters and Hard Times (170)
May 16, 2010 by 2 Comments
In this animated dialogue, natural resource analyst Sean Brodrick provides a sharp-eyed perspective on what may be coming in this precarious economy and how to prepare for it. The author of The Ultimate Suburban Survivalist Guide, Sean is hip to peak oil and other resource … [Read more...]
The Sacred Demise of Industrial Civilization (169)
May 8, 2010 by 17 Comments
As a historian, Carolyn Baker has a keen eye for current events that are indicators of the collapse we’re seeing all around us. But she's also a former psychotherapist concerned about how we personally navigate the turbulence and find meaning within it. The author of Sacred … [Read more...]
Four Acres and Independence — A Self-Sufficient Farmstead (168)
May 1, 2010 by 4 Comments
Take a tour, accompanied by curious sheep and geese, of Mark Cooper's self-sufficient small farm. Over several years, he transformed a rundown house and hillsides of berry brambles into pasture and gardens where he produces and preserves most of his family's food. Visit the … [Read more...]
Bag It! Packaging Bulk Foods with Nitrogen (177)
April 27, 2010 by 6 Comments
Nevada County locals Jim Wray and Loraine Webb demonstrate the how and why of packaging bulk foods with nitrogen. They're using equipment available for community members to use at minimal cost. Jim demonstrates packaging: make plastic bags using a heat sealer, fill with … [Read more...]
The Crash Course — Exponential Growth Meets Reality (166)
April 9, 2010 by 5 Comments
"The next twenty years will be totally unlike the last twenty... We’ll face the greatest economic and physical challenges ever seen by our country, if not humanity.” So opens Chris Martenson's much-viewed online Crash Course illuminating the relationship between economy, … [Read more...]
Finding Excitement Creating a Life-Sustaining Society (165)
March 15, 2010 by 5 Comments
Lavender farmer Dana Illo and her partner Catherine Johnson will infect you with enthusiasm. They've turned their initial response to resource declines from "it's horrible and overwhelming" into "we can create new ways of doing." Dana is bringing Dragon Dreaming to her … [Read more...]
The World of Ecovillages (164)
March 8, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The ecovillage movement is gaining a lot of traction and in some surprising forms, says Diana Leafe Christian, the author of Finding Community: How to join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community. Drawing from ecovillages worldwide, she describes many examples of these … [Read more...]
Innovation Bears Fruit for Family Farm (162)
February 6, 2010 by 5 Comments
Tour the century-old organic Chaffin Family Orchards where even the animals are "farm hands." Visit chickens in their egg-mobile, scratching for bugs and pooping fertilizer in the heirloom stone-fruit orchards. Goats chomp off low branches from the olive trees, so no fuel or … [Read more...]
Local Food — By and For the People (161)
January 31, 2010 by 1 Comment
What if the food system benefited local producers, nourished nearby people, and built a stronger community? Krishna Singh Khalsa of Eugene, Oregon wants to turn the food system on its head. He wants it to be run by, and for the benefit of, ordinary people — not corporate … [Read more...]
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