This is a story we probably should have done a few months ago, in February, when we decided to put Transition Voice on hiatus for a few months. But honestly, we didn't want to clutter your email boxes with news that we thought wouldn't interest anyone besides ourselves. Apparently, we were mistaken. Earlier this week, we published our first new story since February, Gerri … [Read more...]
For health, smarts and resilience, drink your beer
Anybody interested in buying more food from local farmers and learning how to cook and preserve it at home knows that taking control of what goes in your mouth is a powerful way to get healthier. But if you're trying to eat more organic kale, more free-range eggs and more pastured beef, you may also be trying to cut back on booze to stiffen up that beer belly or shrink those … [Read more...]
You built that: 3 top strategies for resilience
President Obama aroused the GOP's ire for reminding business owners of the obvious point that their success relies in part on roads and bridges built at public expense. But the rest of us would do well not to place too much faith in big government in the uncertain times coming with peak oil, climate change and economic collapse. Whether you think we're facing another … [Read more...]
Ackerman and McPherson: Madness of the mainstream
The following dialogue continues an on-going cyber-discussion between two cultural philosophers, Dr. Sherry Ackerman and Dr. Guy McPherson. ACKERMAN: Wow! I don’t leave the homestead all that often. And, when I do, I don’t go that far. But, today I had occasion to venture out into mainstream culture for the afternoon and I was flabbergasted. The mainstream has never been … [Read more...]
Making Transition happen, starting now
The Transition Town movement starts from the realization that modern consumer culture is not sustainable. We currently use too much oil and other fossil fuels, resources that won't last forever and are being used up fast. Fossil fuels permeate modern life. At home, work, play, or moving in between, we're almost always burning fossil fuels. Or we're using petroleum-based … [Read more...]