Frugal. Elimination of financial debt and dependency. Focused on investing. In home productivity (energy, food, etc.) rather than global markets. Thrifty with expenses. New sources of low cost food, energy, security, etc. that are financially sustainable. Entrepreneurial.... 

Today, a friend sent me over this graph, which shows the levels of carbon dioxide emitted by the USA over the last twenty years. As the accompanying report explains, it shows that 2009 was an ‘exceptional’ year – exceptional in that emissions... 

  The Myth of Self-Reliance: On the pages of most of us Post-Civ bloggers you’ll find exhortations for a return to a community-based society and economy, one based on principles of self-reliance. But Toby Hemenway makes a compelling argument that... 

    “Already in the western world and Japan millions of city-dwellers and suburbanites have grown accustomed to an almost hermetically sealed and sanitized pattern of living in which very little of their experience ever impinges on non-human... 

Oh come on…I’m all for locavore gardens, but this is rediculous.  ‘What will your family eat when grocery store shelves are empty’?    ‘The Survival Seed Bank is advertising on Glenn Beck’s television show. They... 

The city of Detroit is proposing to give over a quarter of its land to be turned into “semi-rural” fields and farms, with the surviving neighborhoods standing in “pockets in expanses of green.” The proposal is politically charged... 

My friend Dawn wrote this post; please read it: On Considering Compassion Well, as one who can dish out vitriol with the best of them,  I can feel a finger pointed at me. I also know better… Which obviously doesn’t mean that I act better. I’m...