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If you’re really for the economy then you’re also for the environment

By Sherry Ackerman | September 30, 2014

stock trader at computer screen

I taught college logic for decades. Logical fallacies make me squirm. However, most people have errant ideas about logic. My undergraduate students always get huffy and insist that their "true premise" is logical. Logic examines process, prior to truth. A true conclusion can be arrived at if, and only if, the premises are true, and the process by which the argument is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: logical fallacy, permaculture, Vermont

Bugging out from Boston to Vermont

By Eric Krasnauskas | September 15, 2014

My wife Sarah and I are moving to Vermont. I’ve been studying climate change and its interconnected problems for a year, and my research has brought me to the conclusion that a time of tremendous scarcity and uncertainty is upon us. So we've decided that it’s time to get started building a different, more resilient kind of life. When I first began understanding the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: Bill McKibben, Boston, community organizing, Vermont

Farewell to empire

By Erik Curren | August 5, 2013

Vermont independence parade entry

For one of America's smallest states, Vermont has a lot to teach the rest of the country about living locally. It's always had the local democracy of the New England town meeting.  Now Vermont is getting attention for a thriving local food economy of small farms, great farmers markets and food entrepreneurs exporting everything from organic seeds to local tofu. And in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Ben Falk, Civil War, James Howard Kunstler, Kirkpatrick Sale, Vermont, Wendell Berry

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

Transition: a yuppie substitute for activism?

By Staff Reports | April 4, 2011

shopping mall

The exchange below took place between DM, an anti-nuclear activist in Vermont, and Steve Chase, a professor at Antioch University in Keene, NH and co-founder of a local Transition Group. We've published an excerpt from Steve's response. Is Transition US just a sort of yuppie substitute for taking serious political action on, say, the Yankee G.E. nuke plant in Vernon, VT and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: activism, New Hampshire, nuclear power, Richard Heinberg, Rob Hopkins, Vermont

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