While I am almost daily confronted with the fact that I am crossing the ill defined line from interest into obsession when it comes to Green Issues which among other things is making me a difficult conversationalist (I do not advise bringing up supposedly poor mileage of the Prius or try to [...]
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A site that I had read some last year, but gotten away from was The Archdruid Report, authored by John Michael Greer… who also happens to be the Archdruid of the US. Druidism has changed alot over the millennia, it was effectively stamped out for several centuries, and, to my knowledge, its resurgence has [...]
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This past weekend the crew met again to assemble the disparate parts of our gasifier and do a trail run. Not only did no one blow up, but we succeeded in producing and burning hydrogen! If a bunch of chumps (ok we had 2 engineers)from WI can do this, [...]
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Last year when I was reading through the Scientific Amercian Articles about Climate Change Solutions, and again in Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, I was stunned by the carbon emissions from agriculture. I understood the simple logic of the implications with cutting/burning trees for ag land, but they were referring to regular existing Ag Land. [...]
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I added a new page to begin to list the myriad books that have gotten me to where I am today. The stack of books was almost 4′ tall so it will take a while to get it into type. Enjoy!
-Rob
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In a recent post, Ed over at The Slow Cook brought my attention back to an issue that most of us have know to be brewing as soon as we starting to do the math of the Great Ethanol Push. Basically there really isn’t enough farm land now for the world population, despite the [...]
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I’ve been dorking out on my new MacBook and the iWork software I bought with it. Thus far, despite complete ignorance of Macs, I have found the Pages and Numbers applications to be very intuitive and much slicker for my purposes than the Microsoft equivalents I use at work. Unfortunately, apparently only 4 [...]
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Hoping that this Solstice finds you well on this dawning of a new season of Hope and Growth. As the Seasons change, so may our thinking grow richer, fuller and more meaningful.
With the passing of the Dark, may each of us pass some of our pain and hurt into the Night and on [...]
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Joe Laur from SoL Conference
Fantastic video, especially given the recent discussions. Again from Strategies for Sustainability.
Thanks Georges!
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Whew! Looking at the comment storm from today, apparently I need to get internet access at work!
First off, thanks for keeping the discussion from becoming an argument, which is very, very easy when discussing core values.
Allot of good points were made. Personally, I side much more with E4 and Matt, but that is [...]
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