The garden school

The seasons change, school begins, and life in the downturn takes on a certain rhythm. Ryan makes contact with the dog. Read installment five, The Garden School.

kid-reading

Occupying your bookshelf

Two new titles, ‘Occupy! Scenes from Occupied America’ and ‘This Changes Everything’, have been rushed into print but bring valuable and surprising insights.

Occupy Wall Street library

Solar panels face cloudy views

What is beautiful? What is ugly? Who decides? With an increase in solar installations some places are facing opposition and loud critiques. Fair or unfair?

Solar Installation

Peak Fiction: Stories by JB Sties

kid-reading

The garden school

The seasons change, school begins, and life in the downturn takes on a certain rhythm. Ryan makes contact with the dog. Read installment five, The Garden School.

Read the earlier installments

Freight train

Where presidents once gazed

Raspberry girl

Stop cutting the grass

By Llyn Crounse

On the fence

flea market

The Lot: A tale from the near future

Features

Growthbusters

Review of Growthbusters: Hooked on Growth 

Documentary reveals the contradictory and self-defeating assumptions we carry about the notion of growth. Who profits and who is hurt by growth?

Injured Piggy Bank

Paying the Bills. Review: The Frugal Superpower

Michael Mandlebaum argues in The Frugal Superpower that the US is too cash-strapped to continue its interventionist stance. He advises cutting oil dependence.

Family walking

Why this is an amazing time to be alive

The dying paradigm within global warming, peak oil and economic crisis is not all gloom. It gives us the gift of visioning and creating something new.

Fire

The Happy Hoarder: Fire in the belly

Flint, fuel or spark is essential to light candles, fires and stoves. Don’t be left in the cold and dark because you didn’t hoard a fire starting source. Read up, friend.

Cap and Muff

Why Jane, you look lovely! Review: AUSTENtatious Crochet

Think peak oil means a bleak life with bland designs? Think again. AUSTENtatious Crochet points to gracious fashion even in a downturn. Just DIY.

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