Transition Voice

The magazine on peak oil and the Transition movement

  • Home
  • Books
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Politics
  • Spirit
You are here: Home / Archives for systems theory

For the sake of the climate, just let go

By Eric Krasnauskas | August 30, 2013

remote controls

Ours is a world of increasing control. Control over our environment, our citizens, and the very building blocks of life. Culturally we learn to think of control as a good thing. Yet I put to you it is exactly this pursuit of control that creates most of the world's systemic problems, climate change included. That means at its root, climate change isn't a technological or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: disease, pesticides, play, systems theory

Building a resilient homestead of your own

By Staff Reports | July 8, 2013

rice paddies

“Imagine inheriting a food forest,” farmer and author Ben Falk suggests in The Resilient Farm and Homestead: an Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach. And although Falk does eventually go on to describe exactly how one would go about creating a low-maintenance, edible forest garden, the idea he poses ignites a greater question – what does it mean to leave … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Ben Falk, homesteading, permaculture, systems theory, Vermont, Whole Systems Research Farm

Most Popular Stories

  • Kiss the hand that blows the leaf
  • Five Bummer Problems that Make Societies Collapse
  • DIY medical care
  • Global warming: worst activist campaign ever
  • Earth shelters: Building an eco-friendly bunker
  • American kids in the Age of Oil: 'Economically worthless but emotionally priceless'
  • 19 ways climate change is now feeding itself
  • Three French hens
  • Raising a garden bed: build or buy?
  • USDA: Rural population needed not for farming but for cannon fodder
  • Home
  • Books
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Politics
  • Spirit
  • About us
  • Resources
  • Contact

© 2021 Transition Voice · Web design by Curren Media Group · Log in