Why ECM is indifferent to traditional politics
Sometimes a few paragraphs from an article seem to bolt off the screen at you. A section from an article by Kurt Cobb summed up nicely why ECM isn’t into traditional politics. Why, since ECM’s inception, we have made every…
Powerdown: Let’s Talk About It
We’re caught in the squeeze right now. Climate change is advancing at an incredible speed. We know we should do something, but we lack the political will to do what it takes to hold it to 2°C. UN committees are now being…
What do GMOs have to do with Resilience?
In so many ways, GMOs deplete any resilience in our food supply. GMOs are perhaps the ultimate pinnacle of petroleum-dependent agriculture. These plants are laboratory-engineered specifically to work together with petro-chemicals: herbicides, insecticides, fertilizers. Headed into a world with increasingly…
Revolt and Change our lives
It’s a sign of a really good essay when bits of it linger with you for days after you’ve read it and it keeps popping up in your mind. Naomi Klein’s “Why Science is Telling All of Us to Revolt and…
Growing Strong in Los Angeles
DATELINE SEPT 2020: The last of my blackeyed peas are planted, the summer’s harvest of tomatoes is drying in the solar cooker, and I’ve gathered in the seeds of chard and cilantro. Time to take a break from late summer’s heat,…
Fear and Action
Fear. It’s that chill that creeps up your spine. That awful, churning hot knot, deep in the pit of your stomach. The tremble that makes your hands feel powerless. The freeze-up, that tempts you to inaction. But you can’t give…
What everybody ought to know about Energy
If you’ve ever looked for an iron-clad case that the fossil energy supply is out-of-control, over-the-top destructive –of planet, wildlife, people’s health and culture– then check out Energy, the latest publication of the Post Carbon Institute. The word “breathtaking” has become…
Backyard Wildlife Habitats
Elements of Backyard Wildlife Habitats 1. Food 2. Water 3. Cover 4. Places to Raise Young 5. Sustainable Gardening –from the National Wildlife Federation’s Backyard Wildlife Habitat Program * Water * Cover * Open ground * Mulch * Nectar sources * Fruit…
A Gratitude Economy
In many spiritual circles, it is popular to talk about gratitude. Gratitude encompasses much more than a quickie “thank you.” It implies a much deeper state of mind, one that practitioners realize will position you to receive even greater abundance.…
Hau to be erotic: going deeper into the gift economy
Gifts have the function of bonding communities together. … If your entire life is nothing but money transactions, … then you don’t have community because you don’t need anybody. — Charles Eisenstein, Amsterday Sept 2009 http://youtu.be/cS07gM74tww My dad just gave…