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Several years ago, I started blogging about peak oil, climate change, agriculture, energy, food, sex, knitting, justice, population, family life and anything else that struck my fancy. I called my blog...
View ArticleHow Big is a Farm? Who is a Farmer?
Well, the game of post-riposte is winding down over at TOD, 400+ comments, etc... on my response to Stuart Staniford (his original essay linked at the top of mine or in my last post)...
View ArticleLet Her Go Down: On Collapse
And all of the crew they were brave men,But the Captain he was braver.He said "Never mind the ship me boysThere's none of us here can save her.Let her go down. Swim for your lives!Swim for your...
View ArticleThe Cure is Worse Than the Disease: Can We Afford a Build Out?
I'm sure people are getting sick of me responding to Stuart Staniford all the time - "Does she read anything else?!?" you all must be thinking, but if you'll bear with me one more time, the reason I do...
View ArticleLow Energy Seed Starting
Seed Starting, Low Energy StyleThe first thing you need to remember is to think ahead, and bring in the compost before three feet of snow and ice lands on top of it. That was my big discovery two years...
View ArticleHaitians Eat Dirt, Cars Eat Corn
I often say that the worst excesses of the rich world are actually less ethical problems than grammatical problems. I say this for effect, of course, because they are deeply ethical problems. But a...
View ArticleEconomic Self-Stimulus: Ideas for One Last Financial Orgasm
Well, it looks like we're all going to get a check in the mail, as part of the "economic self-stimulus, please masturbate the economy into some state of excitement so we can pretend the fundamentals...
View ArticleAdapting our Farms and Gardens to Climate Change
When I worry about climate change, I often think first about human consequences. But the line between human losses and nature’s losses is pretty fine – literally a tree falling in the forest question....
View ArticleBob Waldrop's Call to Action on Local Food Systems
Bob Waldrop is one of my heroes. He knew about peak oil before most people, and has been moderating the RunningOnEmpty2 group forever. But the fact that there isn't an existing system or magic solution...
View ArticleGarden Dreaming
Whole family is down sick, so the several longer essays I've been working on are on the back burner while I wash sheets and tend cranky little people.My own retreat when things are in crisis is to the...
View ArticleShameless Self-Promotion
I was thrilled to see the idea of 50-100 million farmers percolating down into the mainstream in this article:http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/view/columns/4720535.html//"Without some miraculous...
View ArticleIt is Time for a New Victory Garden Movement!
There is little question that it is time for us to create a new Victory Garden movement. That's one of the central premises of Aaron's and my book, and I don't think there are very many people who...
View ArticleHeat or Eat - An Expanding Crisis
Well now, listen people let me tell you some newsI'll sing a song called the crude oil bluesWe're low on heat .n allWe're low on gasAnd I'm so cold I'm about to freeze my A..selfWe got the crude oil...
View ArticleOnline Food Storage Class Info
Ok, folks, I'm putting together the online food storage class that there was so much interest in. I thought I'd offer it in four weeks, over the month of March.There will be four components, and this...
View ArticlePleasures
I confess, until I started rioting, I was one of those people who liked to think in the shower. When you have four children, a shower has magic powers - it makes a cone of silence around you. It warms...
View ArticleEveryone Talks About their Period, but Nobody Does Anything About It...
...Except Crunchy Chicken.One of the things I like best about Crunchy's writing is her straightforward bluntness on bodily issues. In fact, she rather puts me to shame - I was once famous for that sort...
View ArticleUpdates
A couple of notes for y'all:1. There are still four spaces left in the online food storage class. The in-person one (much less in depth than this) was a lot of fun - I really enjoyed it, and can't wait...
View ArticleIf You are Looking For Me...
You won't find me or my new writings here anymore. I've moved to www.sharonastyk.com. See you there!!!Sharon
View ArticleJust a Reminder
I'm no longer at this address, so don't forget to update your RSS feed and any links you have to my site to www.sharonastyk.comCheers,Sharon
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