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Radical homemakers

By Sherry Ackerman | April 22, 2013

cozykitchen

Confucius said that the health of a nation could be determined by the integrity of its homes. If we apply that standard, we're in trouble. Culturally, most Americans don't even have homes anymore. They have houses, not homes. Homes are something that are made, not bought. And, homes, thus, require homemakers. That's right, plural: homemakers. I'm not talking about just … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Arts, Books, Re-skilling Tagged With: conservation, Consumer, DIY, Homemakers, Homemaking, homesteading, Money Savings

Reassessing Arctic oil

By Vicki Lipski | March 18, 2013

Shell Oil will discontinue drilling for oil off the coast of Alaska during the summer of 2013.  According to Marilyn Heiman, Director of the U.S. Arctic Program of Pew Trusts, “[Shell] had some safety and management challenges that I don’t think they had fully thought through.” Shell, along with every other oil company out there, has a lot to learn about drilling in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: Arctic Oil Drilling, climate change, conservation, pollution

Holidays as a benchmark

By Sherry Ackerman | February 6, 2013

Reflection

Another holiday season is behind us. As I reflect on mine, I get a strong sense that holidays can be seen as a sort of benchmark. We tend to remember certain traditions and how they played out throughout the years. On needles and pins Take the Christmas tree, for example. Let’s face it, there's nothing that can bring out the worst in any of us than the tree. Remember the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Economy Tagged With: conservation, DIY, James Howard Kunstler, relocalization

Visual guide to the cost of growth. Review: ENERGY

By Lindsay Curren | December 14, 2012

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. With that in mind, the 195 color, mostly full page — often double page — photographs in the Post Carbon Institute's* latest book, ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth, speaks volumes beyond its gigantic sized pages about the energy and environmental predicament humanity is immersed in today. But while the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Reviews Tagged With: conservation, Energy, Energy Economy, peak oil, Post Carbon Institute, Richard Heinberg, Stars of Peak Oil

Terrible tech toy tortures toddlers and tweens

By Lindsay Curren | December 10, 2012

Apptivity Monkey

We don't own a TV, so I don't see many ads. But since I love the NBC show Parenthood, I had to subscribe to HULU Plus to catch the show every week. There, I'm subjected to the every-eight-minutes commercial assault on our minds, dignity, and behavior so central to the TV "experience." This, HULU Plus calls "limited commercial interruption." I call it Hell. Ever since … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Economy Tagged With: conservation, parenting, peak oil, plastic, pollution

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