New Sharon Astyk Book!!! A Nation of Farmers: Defeating the Food Crisis On American Soil by Sharon Astyk Once we could fill our grocery carts with cheap and plentiful food, but not anymore. Cheap food has gone the way of... (read more)

Change Your Fuel - Change the World Just watched the trailer for this film. Looking forward to the rest... Fuel In theaters: November 14, 2008 Record high oil prices, global warming, and an insatiable demand for energy: these issues will... (read more)

Association for Regenerative Culture Continental Bioregional Blog Bloomington (IN) Permaculture Guild ... (read more)

Green Jobs for a Green Economy BIOREGIONAL ORGANIZATION A Resource Index for Bioregions (from Chapter 14, Strategies for an Alternative Nation, Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual, by Bill Mollison)   A bioregional association is an association of the residents of a... (read more)

Michigan's Future Conf. Sustainability Conference Video Presentations Middleville (Pilot) Grand Rapids Michigan Organizer Join Local Future Paths to Sustainability Conference on Michigan's Future - Nov. 14-16, 2008 Crystal Mountain Resort, Thompsonville, MI "The Conference of Michigan's Future: Energy, Economy & Environment" looks at the challenges of the monetary crisis and the oil crisis and proposes realistic, job... (read more)

Crisis Shopping: Food Storage When You Haven’t Been Storing Food Sharon Astyk October 2nd, 2008 Several readers have asked me to do a piece on what to do if you have been procrastinating about food storage, but plan to... (read more)

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Plan C: cooperate, conserve, curtail.... Plan C: Individual and Community Survival Strategies for the Energy Crisis The Fifth Annual US Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions October 31 - November 2, 2008 Oakland... (read more)

Hey Everyone, About three years ago I went through a spurt where I was really into end of the world stuff, oh well I was a junior in highschool. Long story short i stumbled upon peak... (read more)

I haven't posted much to this blog lately but I've been very active on my other blog at http://kjpermaculture.blogspot.com/ Here's a few of the topics considered: ... (read more)

My hope and desire is to help stimulate an on-going discussion/periodic gathering re creating islands of sustainable community. I see consumer capitalism collapsing in on itself, destroying itself in wars and garbage. Thus... (read more)