Join people around the world calling for climate action
Thousands of people are marching this weekend in cities everywhere to call for climate action at this coming week’s Paris negotiations. The photos are now streaming in from around the world. (Check 350.org or the #climatemarch hashtag) In Paris —…
Comprehensive climate action
Government alone cannot do it. There are plenty of cries to political entities to “do something about global warming.” Yes, it is important for government to impose carbon limits — to drive home the seriousness of a unified effort. To…
Questions we might invite our local businesses and proprietorships to consider
1) How dependent is your overall industry on oil, power, low-cost transportation and shipping — can your industry survive as we leave the era of cheap oil? 2) If your industry will survive, it will undoubtedly be radically altered. How?…
Resilience
The idea of resilience comes from the study of ecology. It’s really about how systems, settlements, withstand shock from the outside … that they don’t just unravel, and fall to pieces. … It’s about building modularity into what we do,…
As close to a closed-loop system as possible
Ultimately, to maintain ongoing soil fertility, we are faced with figuring out how to put as much material back into the soil as we drew out of it. We must offset soil losses by building up soil gains. Soil losses:…
Healthy garden soil is ALIVE.
One teaspoon of compost may contain: 1 billion invisible bacteria(20,000 to 30,000 species of them),400 to 900 feet of fungal hyphae (thread-like structures), 10,000 to 50,000 protozoa, and 30 to 300 nematodes. Then there are algaes and slime molds, and…
There’s too much to learn!
I’ve been hearing this line lately, as Transition Los Angeles works with people to help them adapt toward post-petroleum lifestyles. “There’s too much to learn!” But look at what you already know. Look at the massive amount of knowledge you…
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Rediscover Production
To consume means to destroy. That’s why “consumption” was the name given to tuberculosis. – Vandana Shiva[i] Producing food. For the most part, people alive today have lost touch with this most basic of human activities. Instead, we have become…