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Check out the picture below… Is it: a) Storage for MF Global’s office equipment auction? b) A scene from AMC’s The Walking Dead? c) Clean up efforts from Japan’s tsunami?…
Rooftop farming in Queens… A glimpse of the future?
This is incredibly cool… Imagine an acre urban farm with over 1.2 million pounds of topsoil on top of a building. Brooklyn Grange imagined it and created it – a…
Joel Salatin on sustainable agriculture without government
Reason.com’s Baylen Linnekin posts an outstanding interview with Ag rebel Joel Salatin. Among the highlights: Salatin on making money without government subsidies… In general, we run the farm like a…
Are you a “do nothing”?
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing America and much of the Western world is drowning in laws, lawsuits, and endless red…
Affordable resilient homes? Look beyond the U.S.
This past weekend we spent three amazing days at Eco Venao, an unbelievably beautiful 140 hectare (346 acre) low impact eco-resort located in the rolling hills overlooking Playa Venao in…
Money, Power and Wall Street
Folks… This one’s a must watch. One of the most complete documentaries of the financial crisis from PBS Frontline’s “Money, Power, & Wall Street” series. (Click link for all episodes…
How government nose-pickers destroy entrepreneurial spirit
Did you know that the state of North Carolina has its very own “Board of Dietetics and Nutrition”? What does it do? It scours the state, searching high and low,…
Three reasons you can’t ignore the Great American Upheaval
Neil Howe and William Strauss wrote an amazingly prescient book back in 1997 called The Fourth Turning that describes the cyclical patterns and generational archetypes all societies go through. The…
The truth about the economy: We’re in a slow motion death spiral
Charles Hugh Smith is one of the smartest bloggers and authors writing about the economy out there today. If you haven’t yet read his newest book Resistance, Revolution, Liberation: A…
