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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.
September 30, 2010
Category: Adapting in Place
Privatized solutions are too costly, too exclusive, too limited. Anyone who goes into peak oil and climate change imagining you will be one of the rich and lucky who will always be able to afford your bottle of water is, I think, betting on winning the lottery.
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Category: ASPO
A kind and wonderful donor has offered to subsidize three spots for people who would otherwise be unable to attend the conference.
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September 28, 2010
Category: Adapting in Place
Various Updates: First of all, Aaron Newton and I will be offering the Adapting-in-Place class again for the very last time for at least six months, and maybe longer. So if you've ever thought of taking the class, now is...
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 2:31 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 27, 2010
Category: peak oil
Every so often someone comes up to me with fiery eyes and raring for a battle and says "I don't believe in Peak Oil" or "I don't believe in Climate Change." When this happens, I think they expect me to argue with them, and I do. But isn't the argument they expect - my standard response, correct almost 100% of the time is not to make the case for climate change, but to argue "Yes, you do believe in it."
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Category: colbert
You've probably already seen Stephen Colbert's farmworker testimony, but just in case you haven't, it is awesome. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The human-fruit hybrids seem like a good idea to me. Sharon...
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 8:21 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 24, 2010
Category: Climate Change
I probably should have waited a little longer to steal this from Greenpa, until it was colder, but I couldn't....
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 8:19 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 23, 2010
Category: fiber
The title here is somewhat tongue in cheek, of course, but I do think that we knitters and crocheters, spinners and weavers have something useful to contribute to a lower-impact future - warm fingers and toes, homemade reusable cloth bags, beautiful clothing - all made from local or recycled or otherwise sustainable materials.
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 10:48 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Climate Change
With both peak oil and climate change, one of the most essential things you can know may simply be that both of them are things that we only fully understood in hindsight.
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 9:49 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Luddism
My preference is for less dependence, rather than more, simpler rather than harder, things you can fix rather than things you have to throw away, lasting things rather than ephemeral ones, human power rather than fossil power or at least renewable energies.
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 9:45 AM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 22, 2010
Category: seeds
Apparently, though, Mac has a mortal terror. It is something that intimidates him more than anything else. He cowers before it. It....is...Hubbard Squash.
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 8:34 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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