This weekend was the Organic Seed Alliance's 6th Annual Conference in Port Townsend. On Friday and Saturday they made several of the presentations available on the internet. They had some technical difficulties and one entire workshop was not available, as well as variation in the microphones for the speakers. However, there was quite a bit of good information presented. Here are my notes in their raw form. As you look at them, keep in mind that the target audience for the conference are…

A New York Times article from the sunday edition today is highly relevant to the Transition Movement. Michael Kimmelman writes about parking lots and other parking spaces as holding potential for much more democratic uses than enabling consumers to find convenient access to marketplaces, and dwellings to have spaces for tenants.

This is relevant to…

One of the essentials to planning for post-peak oil, post-collapse America is to figure out how much food a person can actually grow with minimal fossil fuel inputs and mostly hand labor. Since agriculture is so important, it is likely you will be able to get some gasoline, even if it comes to rationing. In other words, will you be able to get 5-10 gallons of gasoline with your ration book or on the black market over the course of a year? The…

http://www.newsinenglish.no/2012/01/02/warmest-and-wettest-for-100-years/

The website given above provides the facts.   In 2012 temps averaged 2 deg C above normal through the entire country.   This is truly alarming.  It doesn't take a genius to conclude that a decade or two of this would make many of their glaciers but a memory.   Consider the effects if this phenomenon were…

www.goodfoodworld.com/2011/12/organic-dryland-farming-eastern-washington-and-northwestern-montana,fantastic article about grwoing heirloom varieties ,sustainably,feeding our friends,also do look up camelina sativa,now allowed in poultry feed 10%,better omega 3 than flax,a dryland crucifer with tiny seeds  grown in NE Europe for 3000 years,lets grow some as green…