A recent discussion on FB made me want to post it here. I linked to a PBS Nova article about how veganism may not actually be the best thing ecologically for our planet moving forward. This debate is highly nuanced and I don’t think any one book or documentary can adequately capture the full range […]
Category Archives: sustainability
Homesteading, Camping, Madness and more Conversations on Collapse
A friend emailed me a few months ago, and I’m just getting around to posting it now. We were going back and forth about climate change and peak oil. Both of them seem to be crazy issues that very well may impact civilization heavily. Here is the email I received. I feel as if there […]
Mushrooming Fun: Stumbling towards the Light
A few years ago, Paul Stamets came into my life via a Ted Talk titled “Six Ways Mushrooms can Save the World” This was the summer of 2005, my first summer free from College. I was living at home with my parents at the time, and decided to do as many inter library loans on […]
Japan, Nuclear Energy, and a Smaller Scale Future.
Well, when they say low amount, you know, you need one millionth of a gram of plutonium inhaled into your lung, to give you cancer. They are measuring the external gamma radiation, running around with Geiger counters. But that doesn’t give you any indication at all of the kind of isotopes which make up the […]