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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.
July 29, 2010
Category: seasonal cycle
.And like the wild geese in my oldest, Eli's favorite poem, I can feel the tang of winter coming. When you live on a farm, and when you eat with the seasons, winter is always coming in a way
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 9:18 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 28, 2010
Category: cars
From a purely cost perspective, this is a no brainer - even if gas prices rise to $5 per gallon in the near future, the additional commuting would be less than $400 - whereas we might save as much as $8000 in total housing and energy costs. But I don't want to just look at it from a financial perspective, because I think that ignores our overall impact.
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 8:50 AM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 27, 2010
Category: agriculture
Dateline NBC introduces you to your five year old tomato picker.
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 5:28 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Home and Family
Is our home, our farm this place, its land and its building or can our home, our farm move with us, and our sense of comfort come too? How do we tell? I have, frankly, no clue.
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 5:03 PM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Economy
Interesting query and discussion at Martin Wolf's blog about how economics came to conflate natural resources and capital, and whether it should continue to do so. You'll want to read the comments too! The idea that land and capital are...
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 4:18 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Community
This, I think is a real question for people dealing with our collective ecological crisis - how do you keep talking, even if it doesn't seem like the rest of the world understands, even if their concerns seem wrong? How do you tell people we need to change without sitting in judgement - and without despairing when they aren't listening? How do you go on in the world without being a depressing jerk all the time?
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 9:31 AM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 26, 2010
Category: writerly things
C'mon, you know you've always wanted to. This is the chance - if you've never made a comment (or you've made a thousand), tell me who you are and what interesting stuff you are doing to save the world.
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 5:51 PM • 115 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: natural gas
Once upon a time, I advised people looking for a peaceful and happy future to choose land under which there were no energy resources. I should have taken my own advice - I'm on the fringe of the Marcellus Shale.
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 7:48 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 25, 2010
Category: Climate Change
This makes the 1 bazillionth time in my lifetime I've been ashamed to be associated (if only because the US has no real left, and thus anyone on the left ends up with a default association with the Dems) with the American Democratic Party. I'm used to it by now.
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 3:16 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Peak Energy
Ugo Bardi has a lovely article about both peak oil and intergenerationalism: I sort out again my old watch, "You see, this old watch is still working, more than 70 years after it was made. Whenever I look at it,...
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 3:04 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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