A Review of David Fleming’s Lean Logic (and Resilience)
Resilience in complex systems and slack systems.
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Preparing to Collapse in Place with Permaculture
Sunday morning thoughts on gardening.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Can Miami Beach Survive Global Warming?
Miami Beach as a canary in the coal mine for global warming.
Read more...The Future of Work and the Role of Climate Change
Consideration of climate change has been almost totally missing from discussions about the future of work. What happens when you include it?
Read more...Permaculture in Cold Climates
Permaculture in Vermont and “the jackpot.”
Read more...Wine and Water Watch (WWW) Challenges Northern California’s Invasive Wine Empire
Northern California activists opposed to the land and water use practices of the wine industry are stepping up their efforts.
Read more...How Many Edible Forests Are There in the United States?
A survey of edible forest projects, techniques, and implications.
Read more...California’s North Coast Wine Industry: How “Sustainable” Is It?
How California’s wine industry contributes to the drought and spends big bucks to tell consumers otherwise.
Read more...Are Locavores a Threat to Feeding the Planet Efficiently?
As local food has grown, so have the number of critics who claim that locavores have a dilemma. Are they right?
Read more...Open Thread on Water
Readers are invited to share what they know about water, water-handing, what grows where, etc.
Read more...Resilience is The New Black
Why sustainability has failed and “resilience” is replacing it.
Read more...Mud Season
“The old is dying and the new cannot be born.”<
Read more...Permaculture Food Forest Garden on Quarter-Acre Home Lot
Tour of a permaculture garden, with tips on stakes, saving rainwater, raised beds, and a key concept: Stacking functions. Also lots of vegetables and fruit trees.
Read more...Gardening and the Augmentation of the Complexity and Intensity of the Field of Intelligent Life
I haven’t rambled on about gardening for some time, and it’s a Sunday morning in August, so why not? But before I do, I want to put in a plug for sheet mulch, permaculture’s gateway drug: The idea (oversimplifying badly) is to mimic the accumulation of organic matter on the forest floor
Read more...Greenspace, Gardeners, Parents, Property, and Common Pool Resources
“With community property, you all have equal say, but with kids, the parents get the last word, so who’s rightest, safest, greenest, volunteeriest, or best validated by property values is trumped by the parents’ prerogative. If they want their kids to play on the island, there’s not much you can do about it but complain your way to a rift.” Hmm…….
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