Once I finally get through the holidays and the latest book, my next project is major cleaning, sorting and organizing of my home. That is, it is time to come bang up against the real question of what I need, what I don’t, and how to manage my life.
Now I have a very ambivalent relationship […]
Ok, anyone remember the Patriot Act, you know that thing that Congress signed because we’d just had a great big disaster and everyone was scared and accomodating because they didn’t know what else to do? Remember how nobody really even read it, and it didn’t do jackshit to reduce the problem of terrorism, but it […]
I’m doing the final proofread on _Depletion and Abundance_ right now, and as I was hunting up some old data I’d linked to, I ran into my New Years predictions. Here they are if you want to see them.
Now note, these are slightly tongue in cheek. I don’t usually make predictions - frankly, I don’t want […]
Sharing What I’ve Learned With OthersThose of you who read my blog know that I’m pretty much a closet-greenie. I make these changes here, in the safety of my own home, without discussing them with the outside world. Why? I dunno. Fear of looking like a…
I wrote about goal emissions for the world to avoid catastrophic climate change of about one tonne per capita of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions from household sources - that is, the sources you and I can control.Is this achievable? Yep.buy electri…
· We’re all going to meet big changes within 2-to-10 years; the impact of unwanted change can be reduced if we change our lives in ways we want, so the unwanted change is a smaller fraction of our daily and yearly lives.
· This came to mind at sunrise (in Auckland NZ) when looking out the […]
A lot of what I write works from the assumption that we all agree that peak oil and climate change are happening and going to be life-changing events. And yet, some people who read this blog don’t necessarily agree on this subject, or they don’t se…
Remember This: 350 Parts Per MillionGuess what - I’m starting to wonder whether I do have magic powers to predict the future (yeah, like common sense ;-)) - this blog, which has been going on for months about the notion that we have to cut emissions faster and harder than anyone has acknowledge turns out […]
Well, as the financial bad news comes in faster and thicker, the word “recession” is being bandied about, and a few brave souls dare even to call it by what it looks to be - a real Depression: deep, long, bad. There are so many ugly pieces in this mix that it is hard […]
The first time I heard of cloth toilet paper, it was some years ago an internet homesteading group, and the person posting called it “unpapering.” They asked if any other people didn’t use disposable paper or plastic products at all, and while we were already doing cloth napkins and rags, my immediate reaction to the […]
