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It is a really simple idea - things that can't go on the way they have been, usually don't. Sooner or later things that have no future just stop. We all know intellectually that we can't all live and consume like middle class Americans, that our kids are going to have a harder time because of our way of life, that Empires end and ecological disasters cause things to come to hard stops. We know it, but we don't KNOW it. This blog is about coming to KNOW, and figuring out where we go from here. I'm a science writer, teacher, environmental activist and small farmer who is trying to put her lifestyle where her mouth is, and live in a way with a future. When not writing books, serving on the board of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, I run my farm with my husband, where we raise dairy goats, herbs, pastured poultry, heirloom vegetable plants, children and havoc.
May 27, 2010
Category: Adapting in Place
Why redundant systems? Well, for the simple reason that, as Yeats put, things fall apart. We all know this - in fact, we all rely regularly on redundant systems
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 8:36 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: pirate songs
My children are pirates right now. There's a fallen tree in the woods that makes a superb pirate ship, and my children have boarded and captured it. And they are singing pirate songs. Loudly. It is a very good thing...
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 6:56 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 25, 2010
Category: dairying
For those of us with dairy critters, now is the time of milk overflow, but even if you aren't ever going to get a cute little goat, you might have milk around. And boy is this yummy. We'll get more...
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 7:31 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Home and Family
Best of all they had mastered the tiny little pip-pip sound that a salamander makes when it slips into the water. They had come to know that tiny, barely audible sound so well that they could find it anywhere.
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 6:39 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 24, 2010
Category: Adapting in Place
Just a reminder that Aaron Newton (my co-author on A Nation of Farmers) and I will be running our Adapting in Place Class online for six weeks, starting Thursday.
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 7:39 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: goats
I've had many people email and tell me that my stories of cute little goats make them want to get them - but they aren't sure they'd want to have to milk all the time, or don't feel like they have a sense of what the requirements are like, so I thought I'd write about what it is like.
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 6:37 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 21, 2010
Category: technology costs
This list popped up on my screen this morning, and I thought it was an interesting window into a worldview. The article lists ten things that despite the economy, we aren't cutting back on: Portable computers. The iPad might be...
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 8:55 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 20, 2010
Category: oil spill
Russian TV offers a potential solution to close up the oil leak in the Gulf - nuclear explosions. And no, Stephen Colbert isn't going to pop out here - this is serious. Well, sorta. As the reporter points out, the...
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 10:48 AM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: deep water drilling
My theory is that BP is trying to help out Wildlife biologists, who at this point don't really know how the dispersants and oil will affect marine life. What they need is a little more certainty in their projections - a little extra poison, a little less effectiveness and those predictions get to nearly 100%!
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 8:27 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: victory garden
Read the whole thing - it has zombies and victory gardens - what more can I say? I should also note that a google image search for "zombie victory garden" produced almost nothing. It makes me ashamed of the internet!
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 8:09 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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