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Craft beer demystified

By Staff Reports | January 15, 2011

Learn beer language

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Filed Under: The Growler Tagged With: cooking, craft beer, DIY, food, Jan 2011, local food, relocalization

Mindfulness in the midst of chaos

By Staff Reports | January 14, 2011

Dalai Lama Graffiti.

At the time of Buddha Shakyamuni, 2,500 years ago, the early Buddhist community that gathered around him was  highly sustainable, ecologically aware, and self-consciously so. In many ways it can be seen as a perfect model of how to live contentedly with very little and in harmony with nature. The monks and nuns recycled cast-aside rags to make robes. They ate with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Spirit Tagged With: activism, Buddhism, climate change, global climate disruption, global warming, Jan 2011, peak oil, pollution, vegetarian

Home grown

By Staff Reports | January 12, 2011

Dressed up yogurt.

When I made my first batch of homemade yogurt seven years ago, I was not inspired by a desire for self-sufficiency, a commitment to frugality, nor any particular dissatisfaction with the stuff I was buying at the supermarket. Rather, it was the sheer number of empty yogurt containers that I had amassed around my home. Like many communities, my town did not recycle #5 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Arts, Food Tagged With: cooking, DIY, food, Jan 2011, local food, relocalization, vegetarian

Transitional garden

By Vicki Lipski | January 11, 2011

Shery' Humphrey's Rainbow Chard painting for the Hudson Valley Seed Library's Art Packs collection.

When seed catalogs start arriving in the mail, gardeners know it's time to get busy. That's because unordered seeds never grew anything, as all gardeners discover one sad spring or other. Somehow the order never got written up, phoned in, or placed online. The March deadline came and went – and there you were, mid-April, furious with yourself as you scrutinized the limited … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Arts, Re-skilling Tagged With: DIY, farming, food, gardening, Jan 2011, local food

Americans: hapless fools or budding heroes?

By Erik Curren | January 5, 2011

sign "make things better"

When you worry about peak oil and climate chaos, it's easy to get frustrated at the slow pace of change in the world's biggest economy and most powerful nation, the United States. For my part, I'd like to see my country start preparing for both of these civilization-shaking challenges yesterday rather than tomorrow. Though I'll gladly settle for tomorrow if the other choice is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: altruism, de Tocqueville, energy policy, James Howard Kunstler, Jan 2011, Tea Party

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